Sheriff Michael Gayer: "The United States of America has become a war zone"

[Origanalist]

You could ask. But, since your not special, you won't get it.

Well, I could use it on the OSHA agents.

 

[phill4paul]

Well, I could use it on the OSHA agents.

 

[Tod]

It appears Sheriff Brad Rogers is not rubbing off on this dude much.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Yep, if you break it down it's even less than the stat's show as far as how dangerous the job really is. My job is more dangerous than theirs but you don't hear me asking for military equipment.

So is mine.

And if we get killed, doing actual productive work, the whole city does not shut down and goes into spasms of mourning.

 

[Czolgosz]

"It is an MRAP — a bulletproof, 60,000-pound, six-wheeled behemoth with heavy armor, a gunner's turret and the word "SHERIFF" emblazoned on its flank — a vehicle whose acronym stands for "mine resistant, ambush protected."


When the enemy exits the MRAP and heads home to their stick building the MRAP becomes irrelevant.

 

[Origanalist]

So is mine.

And if we get killed, doing actual productive work, the whole city does not shut down and goes into spasms of mourning.

Nor do we get city finance busting pensions.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Larry Thomas, a Hoosier, veteran police officer, and past contributor to Police State USA, wrote the following in response to Sheriff Gayer’s statements:

As a retired law enforcement command officer I was dismayed to read the remarks of Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer, who said, “The United States of America has become a war zone. There’s violence in the workplace, there’s violence in schools and there’s violence in the streets.”

During my tenure in law enforcement there was violence in those places too. But it did not motivate us to transform from public servants and peacekeepers into warriors, taking weapons that were designed for foreign battlefields and turning them on the American people.

We were reluctant to deploy SWAT teams, fully realizing the violent response that such a display could provoke and employing such tactics only in the most extreme circumstances. Law enforcement agencies are now eager to deploy such teams even in a total absence of demonstrated need.

Here in my own city of Carmel, an incident occurred, reported in these pages, wherein a SWAT team deployed and terrorized a local family, jamming guns in their faces and dragging them away in handcuffs, based on nothing more than a single, unverified, uncorroborated phone call that a shooting had taken place. The report proved to be false.

This would have been simply impossible in my day. When we received such a phone call we sent officers to the location, and we knocked on the door! Wow! What a revolutionary concept!

No, Sheriff Gayer…The United States of America is NOT a war zone. It is the place where Americans work, live and play. Law enforcement officers who are trained that America is a war zone do not regard citizens as individuals with rights to be protected, but as an enemy to be subjugated. And if the law enforcement profession does not wake up and change this attitude, we, the people, will be forced to call on our legislators to rein you in.

Lieutenant Harry Thomas

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/indiana-sheriff-usa-become-war-zone/

 

[Anti Federalist]

Pulaski County (Indiana) Sheriff Michael Gayer

Sheriff Gayer elaborates about the perceived battlefronts he faces on the department website:

“With the threat of homeland terrorism, rising violence in our schools, drug and alcohol abuse, our society and freedoms that we so dearly cherish are being challenged,” Gayer wrote.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/indiana-sheriff-usa-become-war-zone/

In other words: They hate us for our freedoms...so lets take away freedom.

 

[tod evans]

“With the threat of homeland terrorism, rising violence in our schools, drug and alcohol abuse, our society and freedoms that we so dearly cherish are being challenged,” Gayer wrote.

He hit all the watchwords with that one!

 

[Anti Federalist]

He hit all the watchwords with that one!

And there will still be some circle jerking about "good cops".

Here it is, not us "cop bashers" saying it, but the cops themselves:

You are seeing police departments going to a semi-military format because of the threats we have to counteract

The problem is the numb fucks out there that do not understand or fully comprehend what that statement means and all its ramifications.

Very simply it means this:

You are no longer a citizen with rights, to be served and protected.

No, you are now a "hostile" to be neutralized.

 

[tod evans]

No, you are now a "hostile" to be neutralized.

I like those who acknowledge that there's a war being waged on us and then turn right around and voice their adherence to the NAP...

 

[mosquitobite]

Elkhart County in Indiana is the only segment of the state that is truly liberty oriented. The rest of the rural areas are bible thumpers who worship the police state.

 

[Anti Federalist]

I like those who acknowledge that there's a war being waged on us and then turn right around and voice their adherence to the NAP...

Every time a "Las Vegas" incident happens, there is much distress at the fact that the police state will be ratcheted up yet another notch in response.

True enough.

Upside?

That makes the forces of tyranny act even more like what they are.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Elkhart County in Indiana is the only segment of the state that is truly liberty oriented. The rest of the rural areas are bible thumpers who worship the police state.

I'll drop this off right here:

 

[kahless]

Larry Thomas, a Hoosier, veteran police officer, and past contributor to Police State USA, wrote the following in response to Sheriff Gayer’s statements:

As a retired law enforcement command officer I was dismayed to read the remarks of Pulaski County Sheriff Michael Gayer, who said, “The United States of America has become a war zone. There’s violence in the workplace, there’s violence in schools and there’s violence in the streets.”

During my tenure in law enforcement there was violence in those places too. But it did not motivate us to transform from public servants and peacekeepers into warriors, taking weapons that were designed for foreign battlefields and turning them on the American people.

We were reluctant to deploy SWAT teams, fully realizing the violent response that such a display could provoke and employing such tactics only in the most extreme circumstances. Law enforcement agencies are now eager to deploy such teams even in a total absence of demonstrated need.

Here in my own city of Carmel, an incident occurred, reported in these pages, wherein a SWAT team deployed and terrorized a local family, jamming guns in their faces and dragging them away in handcuffs, based on nothing more than a single, unverified, uncorroborated phone call that a shooting had taken place. The report proved to be false.

This would have been simply impossible in my day. When we received such a phone call we sent officers to the location, and we knocked on the door! Wow! What a revolutionary concept!

No, Sheriff Gayer…The United States of America is NOT a war zone. It is the place where Americans work, live and play. Law enforcement officers who are trained that America is a war zone do not regard citizens as individuals with rights to be protected, but as an enemy to be subjugated. And if the law enforcement profession does not wake up and change this attitude, we, the people, will be forced to call on our legislators to rein you in.

Lieutenant Harry Thomas

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/indiana-sheriff-usa-become-war-zone/

Gayer's position is totally indefensible even from this police perspective or even an average Joe perspective. A coward from a department full of cowards when you have cities with 100x the population serving without the need for military gear. It is like Barney Fife ordered an MRAP to protect Mayberry.

 

[Snew]

And guess who started the war?

 

[kahless]

Elkhart County in Indiana is the only segment of the state that is truly liberty oriented. The rest of the rural areas are bible thumpers who worship the police state.

Before I read your post I was wondering about the voters and thinking Indiana, hmmm, let me guess Christian boot lickers. They do just as much to drive people away from God as does Liberalism. What do you think it is with these people, all misinterpretation of Romans 13 or are police officers heavily embedded with the churches?

 

[tod evans]

And if the law enforcement profession does not wake up and change this attitude, we, the people, will be forced to call on our legislators to rein you in.

Voting? ...........ROTFLMAO

Maybe some strongly worded letters too....

 

[tod evans]

And guess who started the war?

I know bikers, hillbillies, stoners and even lots of the uber-religious and none of the folks I know started this war they're waging....

 

[Anti Federalist]

Pulaski County (Indiana) Sheriff Michael Gayer

Sheriff Gayer elaborates about the perceived battlefronts he faces on the department website:

“With the threat of homeland terrorism, rising violence in our schools, drug and alcohol abuse, our society and freedoms that we so dearly cherish are being challenged,” Gayer wrote.

http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/indiana-sheriff-usa-become-war-zone/

In other words: They hate us for our freedoms...so lets take away freedom.