One of the downsides of facebook is that you wind up having “friends” that you are very much out of touch with but who you can’t defriend, and sure, I could just delete my account(s) but I have mad high scores on bejeweled. At any rate I saw this posting of a reposting of some rookie cop in Ohio whose body cam showed him trying really hard not shoot a suspect. I mean I didn’t watch it all the way through so maybe he did shoot the guy and the sound was down so I only saw the closed caption and the overlaid font, I guess the guy was a suspect in two homicides.
Still, the first thing that hit me was, man, I’ve gone years without shooting a motherfucker what needed shooting, and, as far as any of you know no body I know has shot a motherfucker in years, well, this year.
Of course I’m being silly; the number of people I shoot a year is none of your business. And we all know the sacred duty and true and just reason behind the post; to get page hits and make facebook friends. The whole Ferguson things reminded us as a nation how petty and stupid we are. Oh, wait, no, something about racial tensions and maybe something about reasonable something or other and Just something or other. But as a nation we dug down deep for irrational mob mentality that always is simmering right there under the surface.
We still are involed in the longest wars in our history but we’re fighting in the streets, still, over whether it’s possible a cop in the southern Midwest might have been racially motivated in a shooting. And, yeah, ok, so fuck me, but to facebook canonize a cop for Not shooting someone (probably, again, I didn’t watch the whole thing) is going a bit over the top.
What do you suppose our national idea is of the role of law enforcement? Seriously. I know on my top five lists of minimum expectations would be do try ever so hard not to shoot a motherfucker unless you are absolutely the motherfucker needs shooting, and, if you are a window distance away you don’t need aim for largest body mass. I’m just saying, to me it’s a minimum expectation that before you give a guy a gun and sanction him with the communities tax dollars to uphold order and protect the community make absolutely sure he knows when, where, how and whom to shoot. And as much as I like the sentiment getting rewarded for not shooting a motherfucker is a bit like getting a trophy for best effort; it’s a retard trophy for Montessori police.
Imagine if they had a ceremony for every cop who didn’t shoot a motherfucker. The top two worst outcomes would be donut shops closing all across America and some cops would shoot random motherfuckers just to avoid getting the booby prize award. Whereas I might kind of enjoy anarchy I really hope that most cops don’t enjoy the idea of anarchy. I didn’t swear an oath to protect and serve, well, ok, I did, but I was relieved of that a long time ago, so I can pierce my nipples and do bad Johnny Rotten impressions in my shower if I like (um, the owner of this site pointed out the generation gap, so, um, Johnny Rotten was the nome de guerre of the frontman for the UK’s Sex Pistols and their big hit in the States was ‘ anarchy in the UK’ — I realize an explanation takes all the funny out of a joke, but it wasn’t funny to begin with and I do a wicked shower singing johnny Rotten.).
Yeah, ok, refer back an entry or two, I’m trying to write daily again whether I have anything to say or not and certainly whether I want to or not.
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