Cop shuts down highway to save small dog, becomes Web hero

[tod evans]

Pretty sure that was just a bad-cop story to balance out the good-cop story....

Well... That's almost like saving a dog except instead of saving a life it involves involuntary sex and instead of a dog it's a child. But sex is how new life begins and both dogs and children are creatures of innocence. Close enough. Someone get this guy a promotion.

 

[noneedtoaggress]

What do you mean bad cop story?

 

[tod evans]

What do you mean bad cop story?

Cop raping a boy=Bad

Cop helping a dog=Good

 

[presence]

Kyle Jones of La Porte, Texas, shut down a highway on a rainy day to help a small dog find its way home.

rep whore

 

[kcchiefs6465]

rep whore

Confed?

 

[acptulsa]

There are good cops. I have seen them. I have worked with them. There are also bad cops. I have seen them. I have tried to work with them and failed. Some departments are off the deep end right now. Some are still focused on serving the people within their jurisdictions. Many are about halfway down the garden path.

That's the wonderful thing about our once-decentralized society. You can still escape an ugly law enforcement agency by moving out of its jurisdiction. The more we let the federal government grow, the more local departments go off the deep end, the more good cops get fired, and the harder it is to find a safe jurisdiction to move to. This lesson is undeniable. Even so, we don't do ourselves a service throwing the good apples out with the bad--that should be obvious. And we don't do our cause a service by telling people that, 'All cops are _________' when people know better. We do ourselves a service when we say, there are more bad cops and fewer good cops than there used to be, and the reason why is found in Washington, D.C.

 

[AGRP]

How many cop propaganda stories does this make that yahoo published that we know about? First it was the houseless man without shoes, then it was the little boy whos dream it was to be a cop, now its this?

 

[Okie RP fan]

Glad to hear. I feel sorry for lost animals who are subject to modern contraptions such as automobiles.

 

[jcannon98188]

When Good Cops see Bad Cops break the rules, and defend them, then they are evil. Until police starting arresting their own, they are all evil.

 

[Slutter McGee]

LoL - why get angry at me?

I'm not the one abusing power, beating people up, tossing grenades at little kids or shooting people's dogs.

The following is not news:

"BREAKING: Coffee maker makes man's coffee. And his car starts!"

Pretty sure I said that I DON'T get angry at most of your threads.

I have directed anger and frustration at you before. That was not intended to be this time.

Slutter McGee

 

[Slutter McGee]

You can speak for your own misguided ignorance. Don't generalize everyone else who sees police left and right in this country committing outrageous crimes against humanity. The overwhelming corrupt pig units heavily outweigh the isolated morally sound individuals in uniform.

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking. Individual instances of abuse should be pointed out. Corruption should be researched and uncovered. Police should be monitored by the community. Sure

But gross generalizations are for idiots. Are you an idiot? I think you might be.

Slutter McGee

Slutter McGee

 

[TheTexan]

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking.

Over the decades it has grown into an increasingly corrupt & evil institution. Good people who join it either quit out of disgust or are promptly kicked out.

So yes, while there are a few good people in that institution, there aren't many.

 

[AGRP]

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking.

Youre right, but where did he say entire? Hate is a strong word. I dont hate cops simply because theyre cops.

 

[noneedtoaggress]

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking. Individual instances of abuse should be pointed out. Corruption should be researched and uncovered. Police should be monitored by the community. Sure

But gross generalizations are for idiots. Are you an idiot? I think you might be.

Slutter McGee

Slutter McGee

The issue is that aggression is part of the job description and the problems are systemic. "Law enforcement" = the aggressive use of force to punish people for breaking the edicts of politicians. It's a problem with the institution and it causes abuse of power systemically.

There may be quite a few police officers who are out there trying to do good under this socialist authoritarian monopoly scheme of "public security". The issue is that the means don't justify the ends, and they don't realize it. They end up acting as just another cog in the machine of authoritarianism, confusing enforcing political edicts with justice through respect for law.

No society can exist unless the laws are respected to a certain degree. The safest way to make laws respected is to make them respectable. When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. These two evils are of equal consequence, and it would be difficult for a person to choose between them.

The nature of law is to maintain justice. This is so much the case that, in the minds of the people, law and justice are one and the same thing. There is in all of us a strong disposition to believe that anything lawful is also legitimate. This belief is so widespread that many persons have erroneously held that things are "just" because law makes them so. Thus, in order to make plunder appear just and sacred to many consciences, it is only necessary for the law to decree and sanction it. Slavery, restrictions, and monopoly find defenders not only among those who profit from them but also among those who suffer from them.

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right. It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience; but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience. Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice. A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, privates, powder-monkeys,(5) and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart. They have no doubt that it is a damnable business in which they are concerned; they are all peaceably inclined. Now, what are they? Men at all? or small movable forts and magazines, at the service of some unscrupulous man in power? Visit the Navy Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts — a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments, though it may be

"Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart we hurried;
Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot
O'er the grave where our hero we buried."(6)

[5] The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies. They are the standing army, and the militia, jailers, constables, posse comitatus,(7) etc. In most cases there is no free exercise whatever of the judgment or of the moral sense; but they put themselves on a level with wood and earth and stones; and wooden men can perhaps be manufactured that will serve the purpose as well. Such command no more respect than men of straw or a lump of dirt. They have the same sort of worth only as horses and dogs. Yet such as these even are commonly esteemed good citizens. Others, as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders, serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part; and they are commonly treated as enemies by it. A wise man will only be useful as a man, and will not submit to be "clay," and "stop a hole to keep the wind away,"(8) but leave that office to his dust at least: —

It tends to breed organizations that are far too powerful which leads to people getting away with corruption, which then leads to even more corruption and the forming powerful cliques in which members protect each other from bad consequences (thin blue line / blue wall of silence). The more corrupt it is the less power and influence the 'good' cops have as the corrupt ones marginalize them in order to prevent their corrupt house of cards from falling down on their heads.

This is the reason for the generalizations, because the whole institution is problematic and individuals who may be trying to do good are getting lumped in with a terrible and authoritarian institution. They are still getting paid in stolen money and initiate force against peaceful people under orders, even if they are attempting to use their lives to make things better. They work for an authoritarian socialist organization, and their means aren't conductive to their ends... in fact their means of getting paid is precisely the opposite of their purported goals.



The Production of Security - Gustave de Molinari

 

[Anti Federalist]

Pretty sure I said that I DON'T get angry at most of your threads.

I have directed anger and frustration at you before. That was not intended to be this time.

Slutter McGee

Yeah, I read that.

But why would you get angry at any of them, is what I was questioning.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking. Individual instances of abuse should be pointed out. Corruption should be researched and uncovered. Police should be monitored by the community. Sure

But gross generalizations are for idiots. Are you an idiot? I think you might be.

Slutter McGee

Slutter McGee

See, first of all, I don't think it is "irrational". Or, let me put it this way, it is not irrational to approach any encounter with law enforcement with extreme caution and, all things considered, you are almost always better off avoiding such an encounter in the first place.

Second, the generalization is in the uniform.

When the time comes, cops will follow orders.

And that's just a fact. If we take the position that this government has gone corrupt and rogue (it has) to its logical conclusion, you must "generalize" that those who don the uniform will follow the orders of that same corrupt and rogue government.

The fact that they rescued a puppy from the freeway today, does not negate the fact that they will be SWAT raiding some poor innocent bastard tomorrow.

 

[green73]

Meanwhile a struggling Houston business went bellyup after a crucial delivery was held up in traffic. 102 jobs lost.

 

[pcosmar]

I don't know how many times I have done that..
But Shadow is one of those rescues,, and I didn't close the Highway to do it.

 

[ShaneEnochs]

Holy shit, am I seeing some moderation in this thread? Not all black and white? I never thought I'd see the day.

 

[pcosmar]

Irrational hatred of an entire group of people is a collectivist way of thinking. Individual instances of abuse should be pointed out. Corruption should be researched and uncovered. Police should be monitored by the community.

Wrong,, My hatred is for authoritarianism.
I am opposed to the very concept of Police. I am opposed to the concept that people NEED to be CONTROLLED.
And that certain Elites decide what is to be controlled and by who.

It is contrary to the Concept of Liberty.

Police need to be eliminated,, The very concept of "police" needs to be removed from free society.