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Sunday, August 30, 2020

DEMOLISH THE WALL OF SILENCE!!!

I'm a white, straightly married, middle-aged Anglo-Saxon. And I mean this specifically as being of English descent. English. That's most of, but not interchangeable with, British. British=English, Scots or Welsh. I have a little Scots in the family tree, but my dad's side is still mostly English.
My point here is, I am a member of what seems still to be this country's ruling caste. The only thing that makes me otherwise is that I haven't any money more than necessary for the modest comfort in which I, my wife and our pets live. And I am seething with rage at what really seems to be, more and more, Gestapo and SS-style thugs in uniform who gun unarmed people down, especially black and brown people, and almost never reap the just consequences of their actions!
All you M**ks, D*gos and, to use Mr. Dooley's description, 'Pollackies' who are now presidents of those mafias called police unions such as the FOP, listen up and listen good!! Don't you dare lie to me about how 'you'll never be one who we need to subdue' or some codswallop, to use a relatively polite term, like that! It is true that any injustice, anywhere, is a threat to justice everywhere! By the way, how do the epithets that were applied to your grandparents or, maybe, your great-grandparents feel to you now? Getting the point a bit, are we? I certainly hope so!
And yet, I am still ready to believe that most of you genuinely want to 'serve and protect' all the people equally. At least you may start out that way before the thuggish 'police culture' swallows you up!
If you wish to be and remain reputable enforcers of the laws, there is a large obstacle in your way that has to be utterly demolished if the respect of people like myself mean a tinker's curse to any of you. And that obstacle is the Blue Wall of Silence. You worthy officers who are not mere uniformed thugs and have no desire to be that need to speak up NOW!!! If you don't all want to be known as 'pigs' to a growing number of citizens like myself, you're going to have to be 'rats' to the thugs among you!
You already know you'll have to look out for each other; those among you who know the story of Frank Serpico know that well enough. And I can well imagine how you may already feel yourselves between a rock and a hard place, as the saying goes. I frankly don't envy you. But hear this from a member of this country's still-ruling caste: you can either let the boars, aka the thuggish pigs, rule your forces and thereby lose more and more respect and trust from your fellow-citizens including many of those who share my lineage, or you can 'rat', and, when enough of you do so at roughly the same time, change the 'police culture' to one which really does protect and serve all your fellow law-abiding citizens--and thereby regain, probably with interest, what should be your most prized asset: the trust and respect of all your fellow-citizens.
Maybe some of you whine inwardly or openly, 'Do we have to be the ones to do this? Isn't there anyone else?' Well, point me out someone who might shape how the police operate more than you do, and I'll send them a copy of this post. For good or ill, it's primarily on y'all and I think you know it.
So what will you be? Protectors and servants for real who understand and appreciate being made accountable to civil authority, or uniformed thugs who are outright hated and not trusted at all by a growing number of fellow citizens who feel like they're under harsh military occupation?
To me your trouser-legs are looking increasingly like you're wearing jackboots, and--well, I am in my sixties, but that metal on your cap looks alarmingly like a Totenkopf!
Worthy officers of the law, it's up to you. Right here, right now. Choose wisely and remember we take oaths to the Constitution, not to any person.