That badge is goin' bye bye if the dems get their way (hope not).
I know you will probably get mad with me for saying this but I hope not .... "Why does, seemingly, everything have to have a label of Dem or Rep? Why can't your comment stand on it's own? While the premise may be weak and flawed, "that the badge is going bye bye" (at least I hope so) not everything is political or based on political positions. There are serious underlying reasons and differences of opinions in our society that must be resolved not just allowed to fester in the public forum.
Heck, I'm a registered democrat who holds to many of the same ideas as many registered republicans based upon my life experiences such as having spent two years as a cop in Baltimore City, quit, then ultimately retired from the military, now living off my social security, building my model airplanes and playing pinochle whenever we can get a foursome. No, I don't want to see the police totally defunded but at the same time I don't want to see, live or have my grandchildren or yours exposed the continual abuses by the "bad ones". I believe in unions and unionization but I stand against any union that protects unjustified and or bad behavior. Just as I hate the legal principle that prevents a lawyer from revealing that his or her client is guilty, if that comes out in the investigation. There has to be a way to reroute some of the municipal budgets to provide alternative "social" services for any number of calls to the police especially when the behaviors don't reach the level criminal behavior. Maybe it could and should be used to train, hire and grant arrest power to select social workers, medical personnel, psychiatrists, ectcetera who could be dispatched to certain calls with police serving as backup if situations exceeds certain guidelines. Isn't this what nearly all of us, as men of good conscience, understand and believe? I mean, as modelers we come together with common rules on how to hold events, rules for flying, taking turns in the circle, what fuel to use, what lines to use even who can and cannot participate in events ... i.e. AMA Members or open fly don't we??
Let's come together on that accord ... seek the common ground ... develop agreeable solutions, promote those solutions and build this into a society where you and yours and me and mine can come together and live in peace, harmony and as Christ would have us live. Not as dems and repubs, even He, Christ, rejected the "political" groupings ... Pharisees, Sadducees and Herodians ... but as HIS flock, HIS friends!! I hope this makes sense!
Topic: The Badge (Read 524 times)