They deal with ********, day in and day out, do a job that revolves around stressful situations. Deal with an element of preconceived and misguided stereotyping.
They are human beings, so mistakes will be made.
People should appreciate Police like they appreciate military personell.
see thats exactly the problem, right there.
maybe we shouldn't be supportive of our military. else our government will keep providing false motives to engage in war. we had no business waging two full-scale wars and bombing entire cities in a man-hunt for a terrorist organization.
one thing to get retribution for 9/11, but when we dropped bombs on iraq and afghanistan we killed innocent children (over 100,000 innocent Iraqis died from aerial bombardments, torture, crossfire, etc) . a lot of rationale provided to us ended up being outright lies.
but i digress, I mean I respect the idea of our military, i think most mean well. I don't believe the majority of our military ever had malicious intentions. but a lot of well-intentioned us military personel killed innocent lives.
maybe if we weren't all so gung-ho and these colors don't run, in some convoluted belief that our freedoms are truly at risk, maybe we could curb unnecessary deaths on both sides. that's what really pisses me off, is that the powers that be used the men and women of our armed forces almost like pawns in what really was a witch hunt. in the end it just creates more animosity on both sides.
maybe the same way we scrutinize our police forces we should scrutinize our armed forces.
but I digress (again), this isn't really the thread for that. just something I felt finally had to be said. I support our armed forces when the cause is truly just. same way I support responsible police officers.
@ "alleged" profiling
