Cops behaving badly ...

[Rigby5]

The familiar paraphrase:
- Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Lord Acton



Why do you suppose such persons chose police work? A U.S. government paycheck is a license to kill.


When in U.S. history have government agents functioned so shamefully? Koramatsu?

Let's not overlook the facts. Trump's federal "agents" are not in uniform, wearing masks, and murdering citizens.

The Koramatsu case was interesting and I had not heard of it before.
{...
Fred Korematsu, 23, was a Japanese-American citizen who did not comply with the order to leave his home and job, despite the fact that his parents had abandoned their home and their flower-nursery business in preparation for reporting to a camp. Korematsu planned to stay behind. He had plastic surgery on his eyes to alter his appearance; changed his name to Clyde Sarah; and claimed that he was of Spanish and Hawaiian descent.
...}

 

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"Fred Korematsu, 23, ... had plastic surgery " R5 #361

Fred Korematsu, 23, ... had plastic surgery in a failed attempt to circumvent the government agents determined to usurp his Constitutional rights.

Some may have witnessed a veteran's contingent at an Independence Day celebration, and may have noticed a silent tear shed from a member of that group.
It may confirm pseudo-patriotic bias to misinterpret that silent tear as an unqualified endorsement of United States governments.

But more objective, better informed observation may recognize it might instead be an acknowledgement of failure.

All men are created equal? Tell it to MLK.

We won't be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law?

- piffle -