Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Perverted American Policing says Huffington? Or just Remnants of OK Corral?

The Holly & Fred Value System?

Patrick Lockyer

Quote from Huffington

''In the consensus judgment of America's 16 intelligence agencies, the terrorist threat to our homeland is ''persistent and evolving,'' placing our country in ''a heightened threat environment.'' Given that chilling assessment, is sending undercover police officers into airport bathrooms to spend all day trying to get other men to look at them and tap their feet really the best use of our limited law enforcement resources? Exactly how much taxpayer money is being spent around the country on wasteful sting operations like this one? Since the news about Sen. Craig broke, the media focus has been on his sexual perversions. It's time to turn the spotlight on the perverted priorities of America's law enforcement community.''

The perverted priorities of America's law enforcement community have been off the wall since the hanging judges and the Gunfight at OK Corral and Bonnie and Clyde. America is surely victim of her past excesses. You will hate me for mentioning it as a Brit but having said that I love America. I was brought up in those excesses and dutifully went to 'Saturday morning pictures' with hundreds of Brit kids to see shows with Hopalong Cassidy and Roy Rogers and Flash Gordon. I later fixed my value system using Gary Cooper in 'High Noon' and Shane as my mentors and later Fred the writer in Breakfast at Tiffany's. I was awestruck at the demise of Bonnie and Clyde no matter what their crime and it could not happen in Britain even in that era. To me it paves the way to someday, taking out a villain in a taxi with an excocet missile just as they have done to wheelchair ridden Palestinians in taxi's in the West Bank. Ann Coulter on Sean Hannity saying some while ago that we should 'bomb Iran until they cannot build even a transistor radio' and you wonder at the excesses? I have seen and read of many such excesses and you guys just go to dinner. Maybe you are excused like my honey is for having no time as she is on a compulsory 50 hour week for no extra pay? What is it with you though? Making money IS part of life but being in a treadmill and bragging of it is plain stupid. Where I come from the workers rule. They have to be treated fairly and they would NOT be required to work above normal schedule without massive compensation. It's not that you guys have your heads in the sand like many other nations think over your last election results but that you are kept on a short leash and just don't have the opportunity or confidence to tell the boss to 'stick it'? Hopefully that will change. Don't let them assure you that YOU are the master race for your work ethic. You will not see old age if you are stressed beyond good health. What will you have slaved for? Anyway we digress.

The issue of 'Policing'. When I heard that a bus driver in NY State who was late on schedule due to traffic, took a short cut and was harassed by passengers and made a reference to 'Al Qaeda'. Next minute he was surrounded by 18 police cars who should have been busy with real issues in NY? When I heard that I knew we were in trouble. Excesses with mental patients and with post Katrina folks and with 82 year old scared homeowners being blown away on their own doorsteps by police and no justice from it just confirms it. THIS IS OK Corral. It Is OK to be excessive in any way since 9/11. It is all OK and in the name of security. The numbers of immigrants allowed over time to amass without concerns till 9/11. The criminalizing of millions of people by moving the goal posts. OK Corral them in and then deny them driving licenses so that they turn to crime. When they burgle or worse to survive then deport them. They have been suckered in since the days of 'Lonesome Dove', a movie from a time when it was OK Corral to go into Mexico to steal cattle and horses (and by lawmen) and then to have them stolen back. The killing that went along with that era is part of what we see now. It really is a case of 'What goes around, comes around' but now there are some who stupidly think that a Berlin Wall will do the trick just like the Roman Hadrian sought to keep out the oafish Scots from Roman conquered England. History should teach nations but mostly the Power nations like Roman Italy and Greece and Egypt seem to have fallen on their own swords. America is primed to do the same if change, change and more change does not take place soon.