I got a "connection reset" notice... looks like that site is suddenly busy.



Thanks for hunting that down.

finding people with the appropriate qualifications who actually want to serve the public in that capacity.

I remember, a couple years prior to Rodney King and the (can't remember what it was called now) scandal surrounding the LAPD narc squad where they were found to frame people, plant drugs and weapons at alleged crime scenes etc., they had some recruitment ads on AM Radio that alarmed me. From the details advertised, you didn't have to be much more than lacking a stint behind bars to qualify. As discovered in following years, that didn't turn out to be the best recruitment campaign going. I was in LA for business and was there for a few days, it seemed the LA Basin radio waves were awash with these ads. To an outsider like me, they sounded pretty desperate. IIRC, there was a high unemployment rate and high crime rate simultaneously as well.

Some occupations aren't all that attractive to those who might be best at job. I can see how there's a sort of lateral transfer from military to civilian workforce. Sadly, it has been fomented in such a way as to nearly completely blur the lines defining the separate roles of these two organizations, and seems to have been allowed because it benefits tptb.

The "service people" in ourmilitary were aqllowed to go in and stomp around, detroying the lives of people everywhere they went.

It happened starting back in Korean War, and has continued, with each new war upping the ante of awfulness as far as how the American GI's are encouraged by their 'leadership" in terms of how they treat the locals.

A survey was taken back in Spring of 2006, asking the UK forces what they were most afraid of as they served their time in Iraq. And the Number One thing they feared: American checkpoints!

We were that nuts over there that the Brits were more afraid of our checkpoints and the "shoot to kill" policy surrounding the checkpoints than they were of enemy IED's.

And that shoot to kill mentality now is pervasive in the police forces from NYC to LA, from Boston to Seattle. And msot places in between.

...just trying to avoid too much detail derailing a particular point.

I agree that what and how the GIs are conditioned, and their mercenary counterparts were allowed to function is an atrocity in and of itself, especially given the phony argument for doing so. I had predicted, among my friends, that we would see this kind of brutality come home to roost, and now we have it.

Lest anyone forget, our illustrious SoD at the time of the war's initiation was Rummy who is/was at the time CEO of a big pharma outfit, so guess who got experimented on and prescribed mind numbing "meds"..? (and I can imagine some goodies of that type also flowed into the White House given the proclivities of the resident at the time...).

Yeah, I am sure that they bring a big bunch of the military culture to the streets of the US since it stimulates adrenaline and all of that.

Totally out of control.