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<blockquote data-quote="Treeslug" data-source="post: 2066369" data-attributes="member: 115704"><p>I tried to put things into some perspective as to percentages. That is not really possible. Percentages of one man's thoughts are like statistics from one party against another party. From your writings, I can tell that our beliefs are pretty well parallel, and not very far apart at that. I'm not particularly eager to disparage law enforcement. Still, I do agree that the training and the people law enforcement agencies are looking for psychologically today are vastly different than the people they were hiring a generation ago.</p><p></p><p>State LE leaves little discretion to its officers. Federal LE is trained to completely believe in their superiority over the lesser, foolish local LE officers, and that feeling of superiority extends to civilians as well. Try to argue with a fed over jurisdiction. The alphabet soup agencies (FBI, DEA, CIA) were formed by elected leaders acting on behalf of the citizenry of this fine country. Those agencies have been given unconstitutional authority to make regulations. Those regulations impact everyone while being thought of and supported by scholars who represent only a SMALL portion of the loudest squeakers that probably vote for their own pay raise and say they were given that authority BY and FOR the PEOPLE. Really?</p><p></p><p>The military, as in places like Cuba and Venezuela, is a guessing game. If the command structure of the military goes along with the idea of taking away our weapons and other rights, the troops will overwhelmingly do as ordered. The troops are well trained, disciplined, and indoctrinated. Violating constitutional rights will be an afterthought for the troops if the upper echelon orders the taking of our rights. I love the military and all it has done for this country. However, I am a realist when it comes to what the military leaders can and will do. And most of what the leaders of this country will do is based on whoever is in charge of that branch of government--by and for the people--us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Treeslug, post: 2066369, member: 115704"] I tried to put things into some perspective as to percentages. That is not really possible. Percentages of one man's thoughts are like statistics from one party against another party. From your writings, I can tell that our beliefs are pretty well parallel, and not very far apart at that. I'm not particularly eager to disparage law enforcement. Still, I do agree that the training and the people law enforcement agencies are looking for psychologically today are vastly different than the people they were hiring a generation ago. State LE leaves little discretion to its officers. Federal LE is trained to completely believe in their superiority over the lesser, foolish local LE officers, and that feeling of superiority extends to civilians as well. Try to argue with a fed over jurisdiction. The alphabet soup agencies (FBI, DEA, CIA) were formed by elected leaders acting on behalf of the citizenry of this fine country. Those agencies have been given unconstitutional authority to make regulations. Those regulations impact everyone while being thought of and supported by scholars who represent only a SMALL portion of the loudest squeakers that probably vote for their own pay raise and say they were given that authority BY and FOR the PEOPLE. Really? The military, as in places like Cuba and Venezuela, is a guessing game. If the command structure of the military goes along with the idea of taking away our weapons and other rights, the troops will overwhelmingly do as ordered. The troops are well trained, disciplined, and indoctrinated. Violating constitutional rights will be an afterthought for the troops if the upper echelon orders the taking of our rights. I love the military and all it has done for this country. However, I am a realist when it comes to what the military leaders can and will do. And most of what the leaders of this country will do is based on whoever is in charge of that branch of government--by and for the people--us. [/QUOTE]
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