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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Solus on June 14, 2013, 02:03:22 PM
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I found this link at the JPFO site.
http://jpfo.org/articles-assd03/vanderboegh-temple-speech.htm#vandertemple
Video of the speech at link.
It speaks to an issue we have discussed in a couple or three threads here. From the speech:
I came here to deliver a warning to all law enforcement officers that they are unthinkingly delegitimizing themselves by identifying themselves as apart from the people and the Constitution that they swore to protect.
For twenty years and more now we watched "peace officers" turned into paramilitary gangs of armed thugs, responsive only to the politicians who sign their paychecks.
For twenty years and more we have watched the federalization of our local police and sheriffs departments. This process was accelerated under George Bush's so-called "war on terror," with the universal fielding of Joint Task Forces and "fusion centers." Yet today we see this unconstitutional vertical integration of law enforcement considers you -- the armed citizenry -- as greater enemies to themselves and the rotten system they seek to protect than the jihadis sent by the late and unlamented Usama bin Laden.