(January 10, 2017 at 10:31 pm)DarkerEnergy Wrote: You can't have a position where people are given tasers, handcuffs, batons, pepper spray, and guns, and think you won't attract sociopaths to that job. It's delusional to think it won't happen. What's worse, police unions protect the worst abusers, and have most DA's, judges, and politicians in their back pockets, making it nearly impossible to hold them accountable for any abuse. Then you've got conservatives insisting that there be no police accountability - otherwise we are 'hamstringing' them. So assholes, maniacs, fruitcakes, racists, sex predators, and sociopaths are now attracted to police work; since they know they can commit crimes under the banner of being a police officer, and there will be zero consequences should they be caught red handed in the act of a crime and/or abuse.
That's the real problem.
Yeah. At least when the sickos get into the army, the guy on the other side has a gun too. Civilians are in much less position to do anything about their local overlords with a badge.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html