Collaborator with Evil!

28 Dec 09

In today's issue of a Boston newspaper there is a Letter to the Editor, from a local high-school teacher:

"... current school security procedures lock down school populations in the event of armed assault. Some advocate abandoning this practice as it holds everyone in place, allowing a shooter easily to find victims. An alternative is immediate exodus, via announcement. Although this removes potential hostages... it unfairly rewards resourceful children who move to safety... more shrewdly and efficiently than others. Schools should level playing fields, not intrinsically reward those more resourceful..."

It gets even better:

"... some propose overturning laws that make schools gun-free zones... they argue that barring licensed-carry only ensures a defenseless, target-rich environment. But, as a Progressive, I would sooner lay my child to rest than succumb to the belief that the use of a gun for self-defense is somehow not in itself a gun crime."

The Communist apotheosis that no one should be allowed to enjoy the natural benefits of their own resourcefulness, that identical outcomes need to be guaranteed for all, no matter what any of us do as individuals to help ourselves, is starkly repugnant to any real American! Calling it "fairness" is a contemptible lie. It is enforced mediocrity.

Any so-called "teacher" who will stand idly by and allow innocent children in his charge to be murdered in front of him, rather than protect them with a gun or another weapon, is a craven coward, a collaborator with evil, unworthy and unfit, a currish disgrace to his family and his profession!

This "teacher," for whom blind obedience to his Communist Ideals is held above the lives of innocent children, needs leave America without delay, move to North Korea or some other "Workers' Paradise," and forever get out of our sight!

/John

Community-Policing?

28 Dec 09

On the Lakewood, WA Shooting, from a colleague and LEO:

"I fear this murder spree was abetted by the 'Community-Policing' frenzy that has plagued our profession for over two decades.

The craze has been to set up numerous, out-posted 'sub-stations,' in convenience stores and other small retail businesses. The theory is to keep officers out of precinct stations and 'in the community' while they perform administrative duties, such as report writing.

We now all see the downside to this! In a precinct station, while you're concentrating on composing detailed reports about which you will have to testify years later, you can relax (at least a little), because you are in a relatively secure facility, surrounded with fences and secured access-doors. Doing the same thing in a 'community sub-station,' involves a quantum-leap in risk-exposure, as we see!

'Community-Policing' must always be subordinated to officer safety. Since this flawed philosophy is now so ingrained in our profession, it will take a while, and a few more fatal attacks, for upper-management to make necessary procedural changes.

In the interim, the only one looking out for you is you, so think tactically before glibly, naively taking part in someone else's feel-good fluff!"

Comment: In these dangerous times, we all have to be able to respond swiftly and effectively to changes in our environment. We all know that the bigger the institution, the slower it advances. Accordingly, as individuals, we have to take complete, personal command of our own safety, never delegating that responsibility to a "system," "gadget," nor "policy."

Never expect someone else to care more about you than you care about yourself!

/John