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Old 04-18-2021, 06:00 PM
 
Location: New York Area
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Rashida Tlaib has recommended abolishing police. Last summer police defunding became a movement. How about pick a day, any day, and announce that there will be no policing and no charges filed for any non-white-collar alleged crimes. Let's see what happens! Maybe Nirvana, Woodstock Nation or the Age of Aquarius.
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Old 04-18-2021, 10:32 PM
 
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The goal seems to be remove and replace with a federal police force.

Obama/Biden wanted this back in their days, but tried to do it through federal funding (read loan shark) and forcing local police that took the money to adopt their rules.

Today the tactic is to defund the police and at some point replace with a federal police force - which would be worse than local & state funded police.
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Old 04-18-2021, 10:36 PM
 
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The goal seems to be remove and replace with a federal police force.

Obama/Biden wanted this back in their days, but tried to do it through federal funding (read loan shark) and forcing local police that took the money to adopt their rules.

Today the tactic is to defund the police and at some point replace with a federal police force - which would be worse than local & state funded police.
I think that is the goal, a centralized political police force. Democrats would eventually turn it into something like the Gestapo.
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Old 04-19-2021, 12:21 AM
 
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I think that is the goal, a centralized political police force. Democrats would eventually turn it into something like the Gestapo.
You can see that in how they were vetting the Nat'l Guard to find possible dissenters.

National Guard troops being vetted as they arrive to guard Capitol

General Daniel R. Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CBS News national security correspondent David Martin the Guard has been meeting with its troops as they arrive in D.C.

"In coordination with the Secret Service and the FBI, they're screening all the personnel that are coming in," Hokanson said.

Is he at "worried at all about the reliability" of the National Guard troops?

"Absolutely not," Hokanson replied.


Pants on fire... Of course he is worried - that's why they are taking second and third looks at everybody.

"If there's any indication that any of our soldiers or airmen are expressing things that are extremist views, it's either handed over to law enforcement or dealt with the chain of command immediately," he said.

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"We're continually going through the process, and taking second, third looks at every one of the individuals assigned to this operation," McCarthy said in an interview after he and other military leaders went through an exhaustive, three-hour security drill in preparation for Wednesday's inauguration. He said Guard members are also getting training on how to identify potential insider threats.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:02 AM
 
Location: New York Area
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My vote would be to experiment with the "day without policing" and see what happens. After all if the police were federalized it would likely be something like the TSA; all show and totally ineffective. Policing theater or something like it.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:15 AM
 
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This post was made and withdrawn about five minutes ago. I will not disclose the poster but the post is just fine and reflects my views:
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We will be putting up fences and hiring private security in our community if this works with very restricted access. Is this the America they want? It will be completely within our rights.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:28 AM
 
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The goal seems to be remove and replace with a federal police force.

Obama/Biden wanted this back in their days, but tried to do it through federal funding (read loan shark) and forcing local police that took the money to adopt their rules.

Today the tactic is to defund the police and at some point replace with a federal police force - which would be worse than local & state funded police.

Having a Federal police force works so well in Mexico.


You're correct of course. Ending local control of the police is just what the Leftists want. That way the naughty Red states with all their law-and-order can experience what it's like to experience a little CRT Marxist anarchy. Teach them a lesson, yessir.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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My vote would be to experiment with the "day without policing" and see what happens. After all if the police were federalized it would likely be something like the TSA; all show and totally ineffective. Policing theater or something like it.
The assumption is that police "stop" crime. They don't. They report crime and maybe investigate it. But pausing the police for a day would have no impact on anything.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:33 AM
 
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Rashida Tlaib has recommended abolishing police. Last summer police defunding became a movement. How about pick a day, any day, and announce that there will be no policing and no charges filed for any non-white-collar alleged crimes. Let's see what happens! Maybe Nirvana, Woodstock Nation or the Age of Aquarius.
Don’t forget the abolitionist movement wants to empty out and close all the prisons also.
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Old 04-19-2021, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Downtown Cranberry Twp.
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Rashida Tlaib has recommended abolishing police. Last summer police defunding became a movement. How about pick a day, any day, and announce that there will be no policing and no charges filed for any non-white-collar alleged crimes. Let's see what happens! Maybe Nirvana, Woodstock Nation or the Age of Aquarius.
Excellent idea, however, my vote would be for at least a week.
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