House of Eratosthenes

Eh, sorry, can’t quite get on board with this one just yet. I’m not seeing an actual plan here. If I’m forced to glean one from the rhetoric I’ve heard from the “demilitarize the police” loud-crowd, it would be: The police are a bunch of racists, so make them carry smaller and more-civilian-ish weaponry and that will somehow strip them of their racism or something. Is there a more fair and accurate way to summarize the point being made? Lay it on me.

Meanwhile, this just reeks of rhetoric. Irresponsible, poorly-thought-out rhetoric, the kind that hasn’t given us any good results; put together by the sort of people who care about the rhetoric more than the results. We have lately been in some kind of shortage of this?

Carrying military-type-stuff doesn’t make you a bigot. Being forced to trade it in for something less military, maybe smaller caliber, smoother finish, more pleasing colors on the barrel and the pistol grips, doesn’t make you less of a bigot. Equipment has nothing to do with motive. In fact, it hasn’t got that much to do with results. The guy shot with a pink hello-kitty rifle is just as dead.

Fact is, if we could channel just a fraction of the passion we so often pour into Meathead-versus-Archie culture conflicts, into concerns about causes and effects, most of our problems would never have happened in the first place. That includes race relations, foreign policy, economics, health care coverage, all of it. We are the producers of our own misfortune with this stuff, and have been for a long time.

When you find yourself doing something that ultimately brings you misery, you stop doing it.

“The police are a bunch of racists,….”
Let’s see. According to “the data”…..
OTOH, 3:00AM. POLICE, OPEN UP, WE HAVE A WARRANT!! (4-3-2-1)
BAM, dead dog (they’ve been known to bark at strange smells), crushed front door, burnt “flash/bang” babies, ‘puters/firearms-impounded, dead dwellers for defending themselves from multiple armed folks, unidentifiable due to blinding lights in the eyes……..
Nope, no clear answer HERE either, well, except maybe reclamation of agreed standards of civility.
SEE: Select citations from the Ten (alleged) Commandments.
- CaptDMO | 08/16/2014 @ 10:56
But…but…but… the police have rubber bullets!!eleventy!
- Severian | 08/18/2014 @ 08:18
“Carrying military-type-stuff doesn’t make you a bigot.”

No, indeed it does not.
But it does make the police a clear threat to a populace that considers certain rights inviolable.
Such as the right to peaceably assemble and the right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure.
Local constabularies have proven time and again that they are not responsible enough to be armed as such. Why do they need an MRAP to serve a search warrant?
Remember the events in Watertown, MA when every cop was looking for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. People being forced out of their homes at gunpoint with their hands over their heads. Threats of violence to any serf who dared protest.
And you think it is ok to supply these jack-booted donut eaters with military style vehicles and ordnance? Not I.
- bammit | 08/19/2014 @ 09:24
I agree. It’s not about ‘racism,’ it’s about removing the heavy weaponry Obama’s “civilian army” so desperately wanted for the express purpose of taking away the rights of American citizenry. I mean, how ELSE could he get elected for a third term? They can’t falsify enough ballots this time with their numbers so low.
- P_Ang | 08/19/2014 @ 10:39
But it [carrying military-type-stuff] does make the police a clear threat to a populace that considers certain rights inviolable.

No moreso than police carrying civilian, or less-military, weapons. My point is that the military-vs.-civilian grade of the weapons, does not have anything to do with the problem stated.

I would further add that this is how leftists indoctrinate a population that is not predominantly leftist: This crazy and illogical notion that equipment has something to do with motive. It just doesn’t square with evidence, or with common sense.
- mkfreeberg | 08/19/2014 @ 20:05
For me the objectionable “militarism” is several years old, and is mostly a matter of tactics and attitude (which for sure can feed on equipment and uniforms) — no knock raids for overdue library books. a platoon all pointing their weapons at clearl7 submissive and unarmed citizens, and so on.
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