An open letter to police

this letter is an example of the growing distrust and the acknowledgement that something is seriously wrong with American police practices.

This is a growing problem that shouldn't be ignored or swept away. It needs to be addressed in a rational and intelligent manner.

[link to www.copblock.org]


You are the enforcers of our, would be masters’, dictates. You are the “Standing Army” The Founders of this Country warned us against. You are “Red Coats” and your supporters are “Loyalists.” And you are all going to remember the lesson of Nuremberg if you don’t change your course of action, quickly. (Since I know educated people don’t generally become “police officers” or cops’ wives, I’ll remind you here that the lesson of Nuremberg was and is: “I was only following orders” doesn’t save one from the gallows.)

You’ve lost the benefit of the doubt. You’ve shot enough dogs. You’ve shot enough un-armed people, and choked a man to death over a cigarette tax. We know about Kelly Thomas. We know about Erik Scott. We remember you circling round and round Rodney King with night sticks. We’ve seen the videos. We’ve watched you assault people that caught you on video, assaulting OTHER people, and then try to cover your asses, by breaking someone’s cell phone or camera and then compound your criminality even further, by attempting to charge the video maker with some “crime.”

You’ve LOST the benefit of the doubt, and I’m not sure you should have ever had it. And I’ll tell you “Law Enforcement Agents” (< remember: “Political speech is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” –George Orwell) you don’t help the case that you try to make, that you “are heros who protect man’s rights” when you GO AFTER people who speak out against you.

Last Edited by s. d. butler on 08/31/2015 06:42 AM