{"id":27581,"date":"2011-11-20T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27581"},"modified":"2012-02-03T02:05:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T06:05:05","slug":"crocodile-tears-for-the-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27581","title":{"rendered":"Crocodile tears for the police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pepper.banner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27582\" title=\"pepper.banner\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pepper.banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pepper.banner.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/pepper.banner-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sporkmaster sent this link yesterday from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/national\/archive\/2011\/11\/why-i-feel-bad-for-the-pepper-spraying-policeman-lt-john-pike\/248772\/\">Atlantic<\/a> in which the author says that he doesn&#8217;t blame the police for their &#8220;brutality&#8221; at UC Davis, but rather he blames the &#8220;system&#8221;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A regular guy named John Pike has become the new face of evil among people following the Occupy protests around the country. The UC Davis police officer&#8217;s matter-of-fact pepper spraying of seated, obviously peaceful students has provoked justifiable outrage. James Fallows summed up the situation with his usual precise moral compass. &#8220;This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I think here.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What Alexis Madrigal and the filthy fucking hippies fail to accept is that the police have a responsibility to the 99% of us who are going about our daily lives, working and taking care of our families and NOT protesting for socialism and communism, to keep the peace and to keep us safe. <\/p>\n<p>Like you do with a two-year-old child, you have to set boundaries so that the child doesn&#8217;t resort to more dangerous behavior. Personally, I&#8217;d like to see the police use batons and fire hoses on hippies who think they own the streets, but that&#8217;s not my call, fortunately for the hippies.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how many times I&#8217;ve seen hippies yell and verbally attack police for doing their jobs like keeping sidewalks clear for regular pedestrians. <\/p>\n<p>One female security guard at the National Archives was verbally assaulted by IVAW and VFP members because she tried to prevent from crawling out on the National Archives&#8217; facade. I had to intervene to prevent them from attacking her physically, so they switched to attacking me, the pussies.<\/p>\n<p>But the thing is, the cops have a responsibility to protect us from the 1% &#8211; the hippies &#8211; more than they have a responsibility to protect the so-called civil rights of the hippies to disrupt our lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporkmaster sent this link yesterday from the Atlantic in which the author says that he doesn&#8217;t &hellip; <a title=\"Crocodile tears for the police\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27581\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crocodile tears for the police<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-hate-hippies","category-occupy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}