The (first) FUNERAL
My Grandfather told me this, when I was a teen-ager; I didn't understand what he meant.
As I've grown, it has "rung true" in so many instances. As I watched politicians "waxing on" over the casket of the first of the two policemen shot and killed by a deranged black man, I saw and heard a number of things that none of us should quietly "accept". The militaristic, "formation" that surrounded the church, separated the proceedings from the "Public" . Ordinary citizens who attended were assigned space blocks away from the church. This only served to heighten a feeling that the NYPD "separates" itself from the public it claims to keep "safe". That's not "acceptable"!
The entire program was designed to show the police as both, beseiged, and "betrayed". It should be hard for anyone to "accept" that claim. The "turning of backs" to the Mayor of New York City -- their "Commander-in-Chief" -- is "insubordinate" and should be PUNISHED accordingly! "Acceptance" of this behavior by officials, is something the PUBLIC should not "Accept"!
The source of the "complaint" the police present, is the Public Demonstrations against police actions that are not in dispute (we all saw the videotapes). If the NYPD feels that Public Demonstrations should be "suppressed" in any way; THAT is not "Acceptable"! It is a Constitutional Right!
The MEDIA has taken the bait to stir this controversy into a large political brouhaha, Neither the Governor, nor the Police Commissioner seem pre-disposed to stop this. THAT is not "Acceptable"!
Stay Vigilant! Democracy disappears in small steps and stages. The NYPD says it protects "its own". Does this mean that the rest of us have to do the same? They claim to set a model for all police forces in our nation to follow. THAT is not "Acceptable"!
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