Nobody who says "Defund the police" wants to get rid of them

[pecksniff]

The phrase never means more than, "Let's spend some of that money on more beneficial things." A debatable proposition, but very far from a demand for an unpoliced society.

 

[rae121452]

my favorite memory in re; to this subject and police:

after our last race riot in my town, the sheriff's dept. took part in an annual parade. they had helicopters, submersible vehicles, what looked like tanks...all bought as surplus from the government. it looked like mussolini had planned the parade and, of course, the whole purpose was to show how big their balls were and try to scare the population. they got boo'ed by the crowd. boys with their toys. meanwhile, social service programs were going begging.

 

[OldJourno]

Suck it up

 

[pecksniff]

A few years ago, I was driving in the eastbound lane of Gandy Boulevard in Tampa -- which was divided into two lanes by traffic cones, and the whole of what ordinarily would be the westbound lane was blocked off. Then I saw a police motorcade in the westbound lane -- first motorcycles, then cars -- and then, military vehicles -- not tanks, but what appeared to be armored personnel carriers.

It was creepy. Not just that the Tampa Police Department would have such things, but that they would be so brazen as to show them off.

It implies they're making plans to put down a rebellion -- and not the kind the gun nuts and RWs are always threatening, though the hardware would be just as effective against those.

 

[rae121452]

Suck it up

sweet talking me will get you nowhere, daddy. okay...i lied.

 

[pecksniff]

Suck it up

The police will someday make you, and you'll swallow. Willingly.

 

[CornusKousa]

That wasn't the narrative last year......

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html

The police will someday make you, and you'll swallow. Willingly.

Peck having fantasies of authority imposing his will upon others.

#ABOLISHTHEPOLICE .... I want a piece of the "progressives" when they aren't hiding behind their militarized police force.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Having spent the better part of 2020 bellowing this lunatic policy goal, the marginally less insane remnant of the Left now realizes that the resulting spike in violent crime spells electoral disaster, so mealy-mouthed 'splainers like Pecky take to the internet to deny that what they've demanded for months means what it says.

It ain't working. You can't shut up the AOCs, the Rancida Talibans, the Cori Bushes, you own them. And they want the cops gone.

 

[Rightguide]

The phrase never means more than, "Let's spend some of that money on more beneficial things." A debatable proposition, but very far from a demand for an unpoliced society.

One should note, Pecksniff has a Masters issued by the Ministry of Truth which as we know, "is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is..."

 

[YDB95]

It ain't working. You can't shut up the AOCs, the Rancida Talibans, the Cori Bushes, you own them. And they want the cops gone.

Just the racist ones, Bud. What have you got against that?

 

[pecksniff]

One should note, Pecksniff has a Masters issued by the Ministry of Truth which as we know, "is responsible for any necessary falsification of historical events. However, like the other ministries, the name is also apt because it decides what "truth" is..."

As it happens, Orwell is my personal hero. Quite a thinker for someone who never went to college, and he proved in the Spanish Civil War that, unlike most of the British intelligentsia, he was willing to put his life on the line for his principles. He is sometimes called "the last Englishman," as Thomas More is called "the first Englishman," and you might wonder what a 16th-Century Catholic could have in common with a 20th-Century atheist and socialist -- well, it's that.

I also admire his extremely lucid writing style.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Just the racist ones, Bud. What have you got against that?

The Squad makes no such distinction. They want them all gone.

 

[pecksniff]

The Squad makes no such distinction. They want them all gone.

What makes you think so?

 

[YDB95]

What makes you think so?

That's easy: he always believes anything he wants to believe about all progressive people or ideas, which in turn means he believes whatever enables him to put the nastiest possible slant on them. Look no further than his stubborn believe that Critical Race Theory is something completely different from what it really is.