posted on Sep, 19 2013 @ 04:30 PM
reply to post by TorqueyThePig
Thank you for your reply. Since you had addressed statements regarding gun rights to me I feel compelled to mention that I had not brought that
subject up. Although I do support gun rights and the 2nd Amendment I do not now own any firearms and had only a shotgun in the past, though sidearms
had been issued to me in the past and I was qualified on the firing range. It is just not a matter of especial interest to me,
I do understand your misgivings about working in law enforcement and especially of the negative feedback received when your own efforts and intentions
have been honorable. It is the nature of that game and made worse several decades ago when prohibition was stepped-up and began singling out a popular
and largely benign substance. This single issue has contributed to a dissolution of community across the country by having created anti-privacy
policies in the name of Law Enforcement destroying freedoms and personal liberty and fueling an out-of-control prison structure.
Now that the majority of Americans across the country appear to favor ending the contraband that makes your profession mildly despised to hated by
half the people you would encounter. Relief is late in coming but we can begin to see the end to that tyrannical interlude and possibly restoration of
the profession back to its initial stature and luster. By then we may have lost the best of its personnel for reasons you state. Being part of the
opposition since before Nixon's declaration of war I had not the luxury of examining the merit of the individual but to regard all with the badge and
power with equal disdain and apprehension. It was a matter of survival, firstly, then of principals and activism - necessity.
Though I would wish the coming changes could reset the stage again for true community once more to take hold I fear much damage has been done. A
showdown may still be coming. We should rightly place the blame on those who had economic and political agendas though much was prolonged by misplaced
and false altruism. It will be the rest of us who suffer the consequences of the past and continue to pay the price.
I firmly believe the past several decades of prohibition is the single factor most responsible for America's societal decline, even for those who were
not involved in it. Proof of this lies in our prison populations spilling over and our becoming the most incarcerated nation in the world. Basic
rights and privacies have been invaded in the name of the Drug War and now stands that no one living within the US can have an expectation of privacy
lest the innocent home can be violated due to faulty information, wrong addresses, and all in the name of upholding The Law. We could not have
declined so far without that period of prohibition, nor could we have become so corrupt.
We have already began our long plunge down the slippery slope and a showdown is imminent. Perhaps it is best you will be out of the force by that
time. Perhaps it is best, and I assume you have a strong sense of community, that you will face that time as an interested and qualified person from
the sidelines and not as a player on the battlefield. Without true freedom there is no true community.
Thanks again. I expect we are both jaded from this experience by now. I sense our goals and ideals are rooted in some commonalities and hope one day
soon to no longer be adversaries.
edit on 19-9-2013 by Erongaricuaro because: (no reason given)