tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926207.post7707475409109536451..comments2024-03-04T00:50:02.182-08:00Comments on KeithGiles.com: Dear Officer: We See You.Keith Gileshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00328300571647154699noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926207.post-30357647895354210112015-04-16T19:24:51.248-07:002015-04-16T19:24:51.248-07:00Thanks for the great comments.Thanks for the great comments.Keith Gileshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00328300571647154699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926207.post-54789367332354911642015-04-12T06:28:57.529-07:002015-04-12T06:28:57.529-07:00yes this is a very touchy subject and will never s...yes this is a very touchy subject and will never subside and what you said at the end is really all we can do--honor the good and weed out the badthe alternative1https://www.blogger.com/profile/14594337659223473714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926207.post-88841061213082657122015-04-11T11:11:22.845-07:002015-04-11T11:11:22.845-07:00Here is a link to a study done in Washington State...Here is a link to a study done in Washington State at WSU Spokane. If this study were true throughout the country, the problems you are addressing could be worse than what we are seeing in the media. Maybe not reported because it does not make a good story.<br /><br />http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/sep/05/wsu-study-finds-local-officers-slower-to-fire-at/<br /><br />Steve Kline, I have no malice intended and I do not want to offend you. I just want to point out something that I think you may have been misled on. I am not sure if you are a combat veteran, but many veterans have never seen combat and the majority of combat veterans have never seen combat (other than living in a combat zone and being subject to indirect fire ie. rockets / mortars). The majority of soldiers in combat zones are filling support roles and have no training or indoctrination "to murder on call." The one's that do have training "to murder on call," have very strict rules of engagement prohibiting them from murdering without being punished. Example: the movie "Lone Survivor:" The soldiers did not kill the men they came across and actually let them go even though they new they would be reported and chased down and possibly killed. They were so scared of being put in jail for killing the men and protecting themselves that they chose to die instead. That is a real fear when you are in combat. That everyone is just waiting to catch you doing something wrong so they can put it on the news and punish you for the rest of your life.<br /><br />We can argue that the soldiers never should have been in the country in the first place, but that is not the point I am making. I am saying that those in the military that are trained to "murder on call" are probably not the kind of people you think they are.<br /><br />The cop who recently shot the guy in the back was former coast guard. He can be considered ex-military, but I doubt he saw true combat in the coast guard, nor was he trained in the military “to murder on call.” And just because the police are using military tactics and equipment and have become militarized does not mean their ranks are full of ex-military murderers. They might have a lot of ex-military working for them, but those ex-military are most likely not trained murderers. They were just support personnel. They are just members of society that happened to have been in the military before they became police.<br /><br />Additionally, a good amount of those who have seen war want nothing to do with it. I think an example of this is how great of a majority of military members supported Ron Paul for president verses Obama or Romney. Paul wanted to stop the war and bring people home and stop the war on drugs which disproportionally affects minorities. Why would combat veterans want to end the war if they were so intent on murdering people? Was it so they could return home and become police so they could murder people closer to home? I doubt it.<br /><br />RyanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9926207.post-31261518795806702612015-04-11T05:50:39.683-07:002015-04-11T05:50:39.683-07:00Keith:
I wish I could be a gracious as you. I fin...Keith:<br /><br />I wish I could be a gracious as you. I find the video disgusting on every level. I have a hard time dealing with the worship of state, government, authority, police, and the military in this country, especially among Christians.<br /><br />A regular citizen is far more likely to be killed by a police office than vice versa. In fact, we are far more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist.<br /><br />There's a statistic going around that the police in America killed more people in March than the police in England have in over the last 100 years.<br /><br />However, this is to be expected when you take ex-military, indoctrinated to murder on call, particularly brown people, and make them police officers. The police have been throughly militarized.<br /><br />Jesus had a great deal of contempt and unpleasant things to say to those who were in positions of power and abused their authority through injustice, theft, and lack of concern for the least in society (orphans, widows, etc.). The only time he commended those in some position of power is when the died to the world system and became a follower of him (e.g. Zaccheus). <br /><br />The way the gospels are written Jesus lumped the Pharisees, Scribes, etc. together. Not because they were all evil, but because the system and religion they practiced was thoroughly corrupt. And, so is our government, police, and military. Those entities and systems are thoroughly corrupt. <br /><br />Yet American Christianity remains ignorant because it is largely white and those institutions are largely beneficial to whites. There is a paucity of any attempt from those of us in the majority to understand the hurst, pains, struggles, and injustices of those who are deemed to be "less than" in America.<br /><br />Sorry for the rant.<br /><br />Praise God for your ability to write/talk about this subject in a way that glorifies Christ.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04860975094512693470noreply@blogger.com