Juneteenth

I don't like the police.

There, I said it.  And I'm not pulling my punches with a "most of them are good" qualifier.  Virtually to a man, they are thuggish, hot-tempered, power-hungry, and obsessed with their own authority.  As we all learned from crossing guards back in elementary school, a little bit of authority brings out the worst in a person.  A lot of authority, including the right to bear arms, arrest people and perform extrajudicial executions, would have a corrosive effect on anybody.

However, cops are a necessary evil, with the emphasis on both "necessary" and "evil."  They are the lesser of two evils, with the worser evil being lawlessness and rule by mob.  But as Geralt would say in The Witcher, the lesser of two evils is still evil. 

This week, a "higher than usual" number of Atlanta cops failed to show up for work in an apparent protest of criminal charges against the two white cops who shot Rayshard Brooks, a black man, in the back.  Apparently, if you can't continue to brutalize persons of color, there's no point in being a cop.  

In my opinion, every single office who failed to show up should be terminated on the spot.  Every single one, no questions asked. Go full Ronald-Reagan-versus-air-traffic-controllers on them and let them know their services are no longer needed.  They chose to express solidarity for two cops who committed a cowardly and callous crime by shooting dead a fleeing suspect rather than protect and serve the citizens they swore an oath to safeguard.

Those aren't peace officers, those are an armed street gang of thugs, identifying by their colors (blue), flashing their signs, and more interested in standing up for each other than the community that pays them for protection.

Fire them all,  each and every one.  Now.

Actually, this post really has nothing to do with the Juneteenth celebration, but it seemed a better title for today's post than "Day 88."