by T.L. Davis
The State of Connecticut is writing checks its police forces cannot cash. The backlash from Officer Joe Peterson’s tirade against a gun owner, culminating in his statement that he couldn’t wait to get the order to kick in John Cinque’s door (because Cinque openly refuses to obey the ban) grew to such proportions that the police chief sat down with John Cinque to see how to diffuse the threats coming into the Branford Police Department, not just Joe Peterson, either.
While I strongly disagree with Cinque’s proposal to quiet the storm, it shows that when the people decide that the government is out of line, their resistance will bring even the typically arrogant police department to a point of desperation. It is instructive.
In my opinion, Cinque’s response to the overture of peace should simply have been to tell the police chief: “Reassure the public that your officers will not enforce this illegal law. Openly and publicly inform the legislature of the same.”
