Time to start picketing these so-called “memorial” funds and funerals if this sort of mindless fearmongering nonsense doesn’t stop.
“With the increasing number of ambush-style attacks against our officers, I am deeply concerned that a growing anti-government sentiment in America is influencing weak-minded individuals to launch violent assaults against the men and women working to enforce our laws and keep our nation safe,” said Craig Floyd, chairman and CEO of the memorial fund.
“Enough is enough,” he said in a statement. “We need to tone down the rhetoric and rally in support of law enforcement and against lawlessness.”
Bite me Craig.
Here are the facts. There were 126 on-duty deaths reported among all officers in 2014. There are approximately 1 million sworn officers between federal, state, county and local government entities (and another couple of million employees who are not sworn; that is, they are not officers and do not have arrest powers, such as dispatchers and clerks.)
This is a rate of fatality of 12.6 per 100,000. Sounds bad, right?
Wrong.
If you’re a logger, you have a fatality rate ten times that of a cop.
A fisherman? Almost ten times — 117 per 100,000.
A pilot? 53.4 per 100,000. Yes, really — it’s about four times as dangerous to fly a plane or chopper than be a cop.
The guy who puts your roof on? 40.5 per 100,000 — about three times as dangerous.
More…
h/t SHTFPlan
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Without law enforcement officers, we have no law enforcement. Without law enforcement, we have no rule of law and by definition, no Republic. But this is looking at the “argument” from the wrong end. We already are living in a country without the rule of law if you look at the government’s actions at the executive, legislative and judicial branches. Laws, executive orders, court rulings and regulations have enslaved us. We have no “vote” in a representative republic since the “entitled” class out numbers us.
Who is us? Mainly the people who pay taxes, have Faith and want to be left alone. But “we” have to put aside this normalcy bias and face reality. If the government is not obeying the law, are we obligated to obey the law? It is not a matter of obeying: we are required to submit to authorities whether or not it is the law, a fair law or an unfair law. This is the most insidious part of this situation: it is dividing law abiding people even further into two distinct camps. I personally would like to obey the rule of law and by extension, law officers. However, until you have been on the receiving end of “law enforcement”, most readers will side with law enforcement. My encounters at protests, rallies, traffic stops and IRS attacks over the past five years have shown me the reality of living in the “United States”.
By definition:
The thin blue line signifies police officers that protect society from good and evil, chaos and order. It is derived from the traditional color of police uniforms; most municipal police still wear blue, and blue has long been associated with law enforcement throughout the history of modern policing.
But today, the thin blue line is now a thick black line. The militarization of police in black uniforms and armored vehicles now signifies submission to authority instead of obedience to the rule of law.
I have no illusions that I personally can stand up to more than one law enforcement officer as a law abiding citizen. I can and will try to engage in a discussion. Again, based on personal experience, law enforcement’s thick black line precludes discussion in most instances. But I will not submit.
My advice is to build relationships with good LEOs now. This situation will not be resolved since this crisis will be exploited from the top down. And the end result will have both sides losing as our masters in waiting come and pick up the pieces. Although I used the title of the article above for this piece; my title would have been: Officer, Are You Ready to Listen?
David DeGerolamo
