The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire

Welcome to your Police State.

Needed open borders to let in the poor disenfranchised illegals?

Now your government says that terrorists are everywhere and YOU are probably one of them.

Nice move.

"in Cook County the other day five-to-seven police officers showed up at the Victory Centre senior living facility to tase, fire at, and kill a 95-year-old man for refusing to take his medication..."

These incidents are awful, I wonder how many similar incidents have happened that don't get reported.

I hope all the low info voters are aware they will have to take their Medicine too sooner or later as the
dictator in chief proceeds down the rat hole of Socialism.

Interested to see what happens with the Toronto shooting on the streetcar. Tough to challenge a video of the incident.

Let's not forget the 87-year-old Londoner (Ontario) who was roughed up by a few cops. I expect that the Police Unions' Health and Safety reps are getting a full workout.

As it happens, my cousin, who took out American citizenship some decades ago, arrived back in Stratford ON yesterday, for a visit.

I asked her about her attempt (successful) to leave Ft. Lauderdale, and she said that there were five Florida National Guardsmen with guns at the security barrier, but that the endearing centre-point of the whole clearance process was the lone German Shepherd, who wagged his tail every time a child passed by.

Plus this, in respect of Barack: "He is such an idiot."

And make no mistake,sheeples.It is getting just as bad in Canuckistan.Why can't these feeble minded goons we give guns to figure out that if you burst in,guns drawn and tasers/guns going,yeah,maybe the general population IS going to treat you as armed goons? I'd sooner call my local drug dealer than a cop if I needed help.And that is no exaggeration.

"We're the LAPD. We're the most hated cops in the free world. My own mother's ashamed of me, she tells people I'm a drug dealer." ~ Chris Tucker, _Rush Hour_

Well, we do have this massive bureaucracy built up to fight terrorism and the police mindset has hardened to include all citizens since there is slim pickings on the terrorist side. Once cops and wannabe cops have been given a elevated sense of importance , you just can't convince them that they are supposed to be the servants of the people. All citizens are now potential terrorists and cops seem to act accordingly. Even a 95 year old could hurt their feelings , after all , he is challenging their authority , and hurt feelings are now considered to be a crime. Ego could be damaged. Common sense is no longer on par with education when hiring and we all know what comes out of our higher halls of learning these days. Critical thinking is so yesterday. Bet the cops making headlines are not the older veterans that were trained a couple decades ago. They were hired when common sense still had high value.

"A boot stomping on a human face forever"

Not to mention the vehicles law enforcement rolls in now. I live in a small, sleepy, town completely built out, with absolutely no unpaved roads, flat terrain, and yet the cops drive around in giant SUVs. There is no rugged terrain anywhere in town, no need for 4WD, no need for all the cargo space. Gone are the days when a Crown Vic was good enough. And they're constantly replacing the things. They just love pissing our money away.

If American public still is not considering this 'Intolerable Acts' then I'll move back to the States and join police just to whack some heads with a nightstick for it is fun and I had enough abuse up here.

When are you guys going to use 2A???

Police are given far too much power and gross levels of legal immunity and consequently it attracts the degenerates that give the other 10% of police a bad name.

Relax guys, badge heavy cops have been with us forever.

Its a World phenomena.
British police run from Muslims. Arrest Granny's. Protect Mosques but not Church s. Swedish police turn on citizens having success with car burning "youths". Police here watching as a knife wielding murder in a bus eats his victim. While in Caledonia they went after the victims.
The new form of community policing it seems.
Where only one community counts & tax payers are the criminals.
Oh yeah killing sick polish air travellers.
Watching a riot while going after the bystanders.
Fits right in with their ominous diversity, equity and inclusion bureau's.
Post modern policing at its finest

I think this comment on the NRO article by one Alec Stuart sums up my feelings on the matter, in a way that does not use profanities even (my initial thoughts are unprintable):

"The "police officers" who assaulted and murdered Mr. Wrana, an American hero, should be swinging from lampposts outside their police HQ by their necks."

From Alec's lips to God's ears.

We're all part of a machine that's busily smashing itself to bits - us, police and 96 year old men with shoehorns included. (I'm embracing acceptance)

Everything starts from the top. The police force ceased being about law and order and became more and more about squashing the law-abiding using the most bovine of foot soldiers to stuff a uniform.

Yeah well, I have sustained 2 armed home-invasions here at my house. One by Police and one by brigands.

The Police were better armed....not smarter but better equipped.

At least I got an honourarium from Criminal Injuries for the home-invasion by the ones without the badges.

Wasn't a disciplined personality a prerequisite at one time for becoming a police officer?

The public education system is so slack these days that little or no discipline is imparted into the kids. That's one problem. Another is "diversity training".

I'm surely not alone in looking forward to your regular comments Sasquatch and hope you're able to tell those stories here sometime.

I think it's time to start treating the police as state sponsored terrorists. No wonder they want the public disarmed. The incident of the death of a 95 year old for refusing to take his medication is simply criminal and I hope that every pig involved in the incident does does some serious jail time.

As a doctor, I deal with delirious violent patient almost on a daily basis when I'm at the hospital. The biggest problem I've had is how to subdue them without hurting them. Easy for the young guys and one violent 250 lb muscular logger with a head injury suddenly quieted down when I put my full body weight on his trachea which was a necessary move to prevent injury to nearby nurses. Another delirious patient with herpes encephalitis was wandering the ward with a knife in his hand and hallucinating. I managed to get into his hallucination and, while we were selecting tires for his vehicle at an imaginary Canadian tire, I asked him to point to the tires he wanted and, once his knife hand was extended in the direction of the hallucinatory tire, I broke his grip on the knife and he was restrained in his bed till the acyclovir kicked in. I got a lot of ribbing about that incident as apparently the two of us had been wandering the ward for a good half hour with someone walking in during the middle of our little fantasy trek not knowing who was the more deranged.

The main thing one needs to know about a delirious 95 year old is that a group of 3 people, one armed with a syringe of haloperidol, can easily distract the delirious patient enough for a quick injection which usually renders them Parkinsonian given the loss of substantia nigra neurons with age. I'd have absolutely no hesitation walking alone into a room with a knife wielding 95 year old. In the worst case situation, I'd have to grab his knife hand and break a few fragile osteoporotic bones. Once I almost got my fingers chomped on by an 80 year old hypoxic violent patient when I quickly reached into her mouth to deposit some haloperidol as I didn't have any of the injectable in my house call bag. The main thing is that I was faster than her although she had two home care nurses so terrified that I had to admit her to hospital after that.

Where one has to be concerned is the drug crazed 20 year old where I use the tactic of making them think I'm crazier than they are which has worked for the last 20+ years. Having kick boxed for a while also helps as well as being larger than most people. The last crazy I confronted had his face kicked in by a couple of people and, after dealing with him in hospital a few days, it seemed completely appropriate. He was the ultimate bully physically threatening a much smaller nurse and I let him know that the facial reconstruction he had done was very fragile and all it would take would be one of my punches to that area and a withdrawal of his painkillers to make him very miserable. He was quite well behaved after that.

Killing someone is very easy and the best solution to unruly patients would be to have a specially trained team of armed physicians and nurses who are far more capable of dealing with rampaging patients than the bumbling Clouseau wanabees who populate the militarized police forces. Injectable antipsychotics work very quickly and, in hospital situations, it would be nice to have the equivalent of an etorphine tipped dart that could be shot from a distance to immobilize a rampaging patient. Actually, many cases of delirium arise in patients who don't know how to express that they're in pain and my first choice of a drug for treating delirium is injectable hydromorphone which works about 80% of the time.

Hospitals should be zones where state sponsored terrorists are banned and security is provided by those who know how to deal with psychotic individuals.

One thing I suspect that makes the current crops of militarized police so dangerous is the lack of exposure of the majority of the population to youthful interpersonal violence. When I grew up, school fights were the norm and I was told by my parents it was up to me to deal with the bullies that picked on me. A few bruised and surprised bullies were all it took for them to leave me alone. A conversation I had with a Vancouver police inspector was very significant as he stated that the vast majority of new police recruits have never been in a fight in their life. Thus, it would never occur to them to use anything except lethal force to defuse a situation whereas the old school police, who usually had more than their fair share of high school brawls, had no hesitation about stepping into a situation and either intimidating the individual who was causing a disturbance, or pounding the crap out of them. A far better solution than standing back and tasering someone or shooting them.