Working Overtime on the Pacifist Line...

He was one of a kind.
Just an old man -- well that's fine...

Oh dear me. Jimmy has another post up, and this one -- seriously -- seems to advocate disarming officers. (Jimmy took a noseful of tear gas twice: once here at home and once while visiting beautiful South Korea. You see, he knows 'bout these things. Personal experience and all...)

Here's the picture:

and the reprinted quote: Thanks to Davis prof Bob Ostertag (via HuffPost) for this picture of a campus cop at Columbia arresting a student. Looks like the volley ball coach. Looks totally in control. Looks good to me.

Oh Jimmy. So much has changed in society since your hippie days, dude. It really would be swell to think that officers can dress that way, and the toughest thing they gotta do in duty is ... arrest protesting young hippies.

But c'mon? If the bad guys got guns, and what weapons these days there are!, why do you want police officers and protectors dressed in casual sweats as garb? I want them helmeted, in riot gear when confronting "protestors", and well armed with batons, pepper spray, Tasers and all other non-lethal force, with the sidearm holstered and brought out as needed.

America's Going Bust? Some want a black-white, immigrant-native, educated-non, taxpayer-entitled showdown? I want my officers armed. I know who I'm rooting for. Tell us Jimmy: have your past tear gas experiences permanently put you off proper law enforcement? Or is your rejection of authority something more innate, perhaps a Boomer legacy you're unable to cast off as times have changed, and you've been left in the dust?

(Ooops. Did I say that too loudly, Jimborino? Were you planning a nice, slow, leisurely relaxed ride into the sunset, confidently surrounded by coach-attired officers who will 'specially take care of you and yours when the collective shit hits the fan? It's surely not too late to find yourself a home where you have no need to fear the masses. Ding-dong... China calling. Go relocate now, whilst there's still time... You know you want to. Escape this oppressive police state and all. *snort*)

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*Reminds me of those old Tex-Mex commercials: I don't care how they do it in China. We don't play that way in the U.S.A., where freedom of individual rights depends on controlling the worst impulses of the masses, who surely will seize what they can't create, once the entitlements dry up and the blame game gets going in full force...