My cousin, who's not a member of this forum, shared a couple of things with me yesterday.
Seems some fella in Portland Oregon showed up in hot zone for rioting and looting (notice nothing about "protesting") dressed in black, black helmet and facemask with a bag full of "Make America Great Again" bumper stickers and stuck them over the "Bernie" and "Antifa" stickers on the rioters/looters vehicles (apparently they park outside of the hot zones and then enter and mayhem ensues), which I assume were of the Prius variety...................the looters returned to find their vehicles smashed to pieces by other looters/rioters...................
It seems there are some of you who like to post statistics; here you go...........last year in the US according to the FBI, there were 10 million arrests; of those, there were 1,000 or so police shootings. Of those 1,000 shootings, FORTY ONE were unarmed. As it stands right now, our country is getting looted and pillaged for a statistic that does not even register as a percentage; ie, I'm not a math wizzard, but you tell me how it shakes out 10 MILLION/41 UNARMED............
Seems like there is an undercurrent of police hate going on right now everywhere. As many of you know, my Dad was a Boston Police Officer for 37 years; every day he left our house, the reality was that might be the last time we saw him. He wore that badge and that uniform proudly, he loved his job "to protect and to serve" and did it well, when he retired and they called his name during the cerimony, the ovation was tremendous, I don't think I was ever more proud of him than on that day.
A cousin of mine wanted to be a police officer in the worst way, my Dad pulled some strings to get him onto the Boston Police; one night he was doing a detail at a bar that was known for trouble, a fight broke out, he tried to break it up, in the process some fine, upstanding citizen smashed a bottle across his face and he lost an eye. That haunted my Dad until the day he died, he felt tremendous guilt over that...……………..oh gee; I suppose that piece of **** who took my cousins eye out all because he was trying to do his job has rights too, right?
I am the son of a police officer, I saw with my own eyes what my Dad went through, how he changed as a person due to his work experiences and how he felt about things as well. I respect the law, it's not an easy job, it's not a fun job, it's a very difficult, stressful, demanding job. I have relatives who are in law enforcement and a great number of customers who are current and former police officers, many of whom used to trade war stories with my Dad when they saw him at the toy soldier shows he used to attend with me when he was alive.
I respect all of them for what they do and the job they do, plain and simple, end of story.
My Dad used to say " A lot of people hate the police; until they need them"...…………………….just remember that for every police officer standing behind that badge, there is a family who stand with him/her in front of it; they have family and loved ones who care about them too.
I thought long and hard about posting anything about the police, this is a toy soldier forum and all, fun and games, comical banter, just boys being boys, but enough is enough; as a dealer, if someone chooses not to buy from me because of how I think and that my Dad, a person I loved with every ounce of my soul was a police officer, then guess what; I guess I'll have to learn to live with that disappointment, because my position on police officers is NEVER going to change, so keep posting stories, have at it, have a ball trying to prove whatever it is you're trying to prove with your stories.
I hope that is clear.
As in crystal.
I just had to do it, I am sorry. I know you are using an expletive right now as you read this to describe me, I can hear it.....................!
