Article posted 7 May 2009 Occupying forces, or: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#8) posted 10am / revised 8am 8 May 2009

This is a photo of a bumpersticker which an observant reader recently sent to Radley Balko.

Support Our Troops, at home and abroad

So, there you have it. All according to the Patrolman’s Benevolent [sic] Association of the City of New York, Patrick J. Lynch, President, government cops are soldiers, law enforcement is occupation, and your hometown is a battlefield. Care to guess who’ll get treated as the enemy?

Do you feel safer now?

See also:

• GT 2008-05-06: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter…
• GT 2008-05-12: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#2)
• GT 2008-05-15: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#3)
• GT 2008-07-12: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#4)
• GT 2008-08-22: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#5)
• GT 2008-09-19: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#6)
• GT 2008-10-06: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#7)
• GT 2008-04-28: Is it just me or is the water in this pot getting a little hotter?
• GT 2008-05-03: Truth in advertising
• GT 2008-06-05: Neighborhood Safety Ghettoes in D.C.
• GT 2008-09-25: How cops see themselves
• GT 2008-12-05: Don’t turn your back on the Wolfpack
• GT 2009-03-28: It doesn’t take much imagination.

• Rad Geek (2009).
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• 11 comments on GT 2009-05-07

  1. Brainpolice: But the robots will take our jebbbbzzz! [2009-05-07 11:17:11 am]
  2. John Markley: I'm starting to feel like all the police in the country got together to watch "The Chase" with Charlie Sheen, ... [2009-05-07 12:30:49 pm]
  3. Darian: I'm pretty sure I've seen that on a poster in Manhattan. I've definitely seen handgun-toting troops in military uniforms ... [2009-05-07 1:01:06 pm]
  4. bile: Things are pretty bad in Manhattan. There are mass presentations downtown fairly regularly. They search people getting onto buses. They ... [2009-05-07 2:51:22 pm]
  5. Mike Gogulski: There's water in this post? Huh? :) [2009-05-07 5:30:05 pm]
  6. Mike Gogulski: Circling back yet again.... "Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?" [2009-05-09 5:23:06 pm]
  7. Roderick T. Long: Which in turn reminds me of this cartoon. [2009-05-09 8:33:54 pm]
  8. Mike Gogulski: Nice one, Roderick :) [2009-05-11 9:56:51 am]
  9. Rad Geek People’s Daily 2009-05-26 – Over My Shoulder #45: How Empire comes home in the form of sado-statism and police brutality. From Fred Woodworth, “Evil Empire Notes,” in The Match! # 107 (Summer, 2009): [...] GT 2009-05-07: Occupying forces [...] [2009-05-26 10:37:58 pm]
  10. Rad Geek People’s Daily 2009-05-28 – How cops see themselves (#2). National Police Memorial Week and El Monte, California.: [...] in the vein of GT 2009-05-07: Occupying forces, GT 2009-03-28: It doesn’t take much imagination, and GT 2008-09-25: How ... [2009-05-28 8:02:58 pm]
  11. Rad Geek People’s Daily 2010-05-12 – Police Militarization Watch (Part 1 of ???): [...] GT 2009-05-07: Occupying forces, or: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a... [...] [2010-05-12 10:26:23 pm]
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