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Occupying forces, or: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#8)

Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 15 years ago, in 2009, on the World Wide Web.

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

It features an armed, black-uniformed cop on the left and an armed soldier standing at attention on the right. In the background, a huge American flag flies over an image of a city building in New York and a ruined city presumably somewhere in Iraq or Afghanistan. Up to, it reads SUPPORT OUR TROOPS: AT HOME AND ABROAD, with a PBA shield and "Patrolman's Benevolent Association of the City of New York, Patrick J. Lynch, President," printed underneath.

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?

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16 replies to Occupying forces, or: No, seriously, I could swear the water in this pot is getting a little hotter… (#8) Use a feed to Follow replies to this article · TrackBack URI

  1. Brainpolice /#

    But the robots will take our jebbbbzzz!

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  2. John Markley /#

    I’m starting to feel like all the police in the country got together to watch “The Chase” with Charlie Sheen, and didn’t realize that the cop played by Henry Rollins was being portrayed as a lunatic and not a role-model.

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  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 in the train stations there. Combine that with the “ring of steel” and subway bag searches, and I’d say that NYC is on the cutting edge of the US police state.

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  4. bile /#

    Things are pretty bad in Manhattan. There are mass presentations downtown fairly regularly. They search people getting onto buses. They are expanding the usage of license plate, biochemical, and radiation scanners to midtown.

    I have not run across the bumper sticker above but i’m in no way surprised.

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  5. Mike Gogulski /#

    There’s water in this post? Huh? :)

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  6. Mike Gogulski /#

    Circling back yet again….

    “Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?”

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  7. Roderick T. Long /#

    Which in turn reminds me of this cartoon.

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  8. Mike Gogulski /#

    Nice one, Roderick :)

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  10. Discussed at radgeek.com /#

    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 cops see themselves, […]

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— 2010 —

  1. Discussed at radgeek.com /#

    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… […]

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— 2013 —

  1. Discussed at nvcopblock.org /#

    The LVMPD's Killer Reputation: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas | Nevada CopBlock:

    […] through the streets that they live and work. If those individuals are permitted to act as an occupying force with the impunity to do as they please to those within that community, those among their ranks that […]

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  2. Discussed at nevadastatepersonnelwatch.wordpress.com /#

    Four protesters have been charged in connection with messages written in chalk outside the Metropolitan Police Department’s headquarters and in front of the Regional Justice Center “Not one single cop in Metro’s entire history has been c:

    […] through the streets that they live and work. If those individuals are permitted to act as an occupying force with the impunity to do as they please to those within that community, those among their ranks that […]

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  3. Discussed at www.copblock.org /#

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The LVMPD's Killer Reputation | Cop Block:

    […] through the streets that they live and work. If those individuals are permitted to act as an occupying force with the impunity to do as they please to those within that community, those among their ranks that […]

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  4. Discussed at www.occuworld.org /#

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The LVMPD's Killer Reputation:

    […] through the streets that they live and work. If those individuals are permitted to act as an occupying force with the impunity to do as they please to those within that community, those among their ranks that […]

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  5. Discussed at www.occuworld.org /#

    Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The LVMPD's Killer Reputation:

    […] through the streets that they live and work. If those individuals are permitted to act as an occupying force with the impunity to do as they please to those within that community, those among their ranks that […]

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