Apparently.
According to HRC, there exists a “sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters”:
“I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families [and] all who serve with them,” Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, wrote in a message on Twitter. Her likely Republican opponent, Donald J. Trump, called the shooting “a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe.”
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the police do not have a duty to protect people (whether protesters or not), and that they cannot.
While under the First Amendment there is a right to protest anyone or anything, it is constitutionally debatable whether the police have a “duty to protect protesters” — whoever they may be, and whatever they may be protesting — against whoever may be protesting against them. (Obviously, any such duty would apply equally to protesters as well as counter-protesters.)
But if we assume such a duty, would it arise to a sacred duty?
What is this? Religion or politics? I don’t know.
But as anyone who has read this blog knows, I hate SWAT Teams, the Drug War, the creation of so-called “Homeland Security,” the militarization of the police, etc, etc, etc.
I have never and would never defend police brutality in any way, shape or form.
But I’ll tell you what I think sucks. It’s front pages comparing police misconduct (reprehensible as it is) to torture murders committed by the Ku Klux Klan.
Precisely what I was treated to this morning.
You’d almost think the goal of the media was to promote civil unrest.
UPDATE: Commenter Gringo really nails it:
I don’t recall Hillary saying anything about police officers’ “sacred duty to protect peaceful protestors” when policemen stood by in California while peaceful Trump supporters got attacked.
Hah!
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8 responses to “Are some things actually “sacred”?”
How about a sacred duty not to store classified email on an unsecured server?
I blame Jefferson for putting ideas in people’s heads.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. — Thomas Jefferson
My attitude is that what the police have been doing is worse than the KKK because it is done under the color of law.
The Detroit Free Press’s comparison of the Baton Rouge police shooting with the torture murder of Emmett Till was inaccurate and irresponsible. Obviously, there is a First Amendment right to compare the cops to the Manson Family as well, but that doesn’t make it accurate.
Selling newspapers is about emotion. Accuracy is secondary.
“I mourn for the officers shot while doing their sacred duty to protect peaceful protesters, for their families [and] all who serve with them,”
I don’t recall Hillary saying anything about police officers’ “sacred duty to protect peaceful protestors” when policemen stood by in California while peaceful Trump supporters got attacked.
the job of the police is to protect the white upper class and control the “negros.” as our industrial jobs go away and the social safety net goes away in tax cuts for the rich it is the job of police to solve social problems with private prisions and their service revolvers.
Fuck Hillary and fuck BLM. Not my job. As the cops say, “stay fetal.” Carry a gun.