{"id":185769,"date":"2014-08-19T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/19\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-50\/"},"modified":"2014-08-19T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T01:22:00","slug":"live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/19\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Obedient Fear, Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the epitome of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2014\/08\/19\/im-a-cop-if-you-dont-want-to-get-hurt-dont-challenge-me\/?hpid=z10\">pro police state mentality<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don\u2019t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don\u2019t argue with me, don\u2019t call me names, don\u2019t tell me that I can\u2019t stop you, don\u2019t say I\u2019m a racist pig, don\u2019t threaten that you\u2019ll sue me and take away my badge. Don\u2019t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don\u2019t even think of aggressively walking towards me. Most field stops are complete in minutes. How difficult is it to cooperate for that long?<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, just let the cop search your car, and your person when they have no right to.<\/p>\n<p>Let them shut down your completely legal demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>Let them prevent you from talking at a city council meeting because the Mayor disagrees with you.<\/p>\n<p>Never, ever tape cops when they don&#8217;t want you to. <\/p>\n<p>How difficult is that?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t worry, cops never abuse their power.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little pinprick. \u2026\u2026\u2026 But you may feel a little sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the epitome of a pro police state mentality: Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don\u2019t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don\u2019t argue with me, don\u2019t call me names, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[969,1041],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evil","category-law-enforcement-misconduct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}