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Ferguson: Obama Finally Uniting Country

Sir Robert Peel:

The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties

Source. [1]

Mary Katherine Ham: Hot Air: [2]

We ask more of police in a free society than creating militarized zones out of tough situations. This requires more bravery, more risk, more patience than being a cop in a society where cops can do what they like when they like with impunity. As a result, many Americans have great respect, sometimes reverence, for law enforcement. But when an official response, even to a tough situation, looks like martial law with federally issued no-fly zones, the state isn’t honoring its part of agreement in a free society. We should be willing to demand that they do, even in the face of immense danger. The deep respect many Americans hold for law enforcement should be a function of a free society asking more from those men and women and getting it, not a reason to excuse them when they give us far less.

The lame streamers falsely depicted Barrack Obama, nee Kenya, as some kind post-political Messiah.    Finally after some five plus years in office the regime that loath to attack our foreign enemies, but relishes attacking domestic patriots, see siege of Cliven  Bundy  is finally bring the country together, at least the libertarians and the looney left. from Tim Devaney,Hill [3]:

Groups on the left and right are uniting behind calls to end what they say is the rise of a “militarized” police force in the United States.

They say the controversial police tactics seen this week in Ferguson, Mo., are not isolated to the St. Louis County police department and warn the rise of heavily armed law enforcement agencies has become an imminent threat to civil liberties.
“What we’re seeing today in Ferguson is a reflection of the excessive militarization of police that has been happening in towns across America for decades,” said Kara Dansky, senior counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

The ACLU is aligned with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and groups on the right who are calling for an end to a controversial Defense Department program that supplies local police departments with surplus military equipment, such as armored tanks, machine guns, and tear gas.

I have a lot I could say about Ferguson, almost all of it negative.: