19 year old pre-school teacher shot dead by police.

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Born_Again

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Well, SJ4C, as a former Chief of Police, I must say I am mildly offended of the description and perception of Police posted here. I was paid poorly to put my life in harms way for complete strangers and risked leaving my children fatherless. There are some people who get into it because they want the authority but I was in it because I truly wanted to help people and get the "Bad Guys" out of there. I never once saw where it was the publics responsibility to protect me or my officers. I saw everything from domestic disputes that sent people to the hospital to a man get crushed by a car he was working and was found when his wife went looking for him because his small children wanted Daddy to tuck them in. ( after that one, I ran home and hugged my own kids.) My point is, unless you have been in the shoes of a Good and Noble officer, you realistically have no right to criticize.

Pick on the government all you want. The politics is one of the reasons I got out. I had no love for the city leaders.
 

sojourner4Christ

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Well, SJ4C, as a former Chief of Police, I must say I am mildly offended of the description and perception of Police posted here.
It's about the purported authority i.e. the police power, rather than the police man. One can find a full range of character types and behaviours within any employ.

I was paid poorly to put my life in harms way for complete strangers and risked leaving my children fatherless.
So was I.

There are some people who get into it because they want the authority but I was in it because I truly wanted to help people and get the "Bad Guys" out of there.
Me, too. But yet there were a few times when I clashed with the holders of one or the other of those two positions...

I never once saw where it was the publics responsibility to protect me or my officers.
Have you read the documentation I linked to (post #14 above)? That alone should clue you in to the arbitrary and capricious nature of Caesar's authority.

...My point is, unless you have been in the shoes of a Good and Noble officer, you realistically have no right to criticize.
You can call it "criticize," but the facts remain the facts. And I have been in similar "shoes" -- not that such is relevant to the facts.

Pick on the government all you want.
The Government I serve is not the government the majority serves.

The politics is one of the reasons I got out. I had no love for the city leaders.
It's also why I am no longer in the employ of the military of the State.

It's all about choices.

Thanks for your post.
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Police seem to dwell on the dangers of their work, so if you cannot stand the heat, get out of the kitchen, as the saying goes...there are many more dangerous jobs such as underground mining, construction work to mention but two..I was involved in statute enforcement/investigations for many years, and legal work, and found a double standard..the public are the "enemy" and the lawmakers/politicians are above the law and must be ignored when they commit fraud, and other crimes. That is why I turned my back on a 20 year career, and chose to be a truck driver..icy roads, snow storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, are better and more dangerous than living a lie, and it is honest work, even though the police and authorities like to harass these people, because of this..the police are supposed to uphold the constitution and the rights of the individual, and not shoot first, and become executioner on the spot..satan has corrupted the entire system and law enforcement is no exception.
 

sojourner4Christ

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When we submit to ungodly authority, eveyone's sacred cow gets gored sooner or later by the Truth.

the public are the "enemy" and the lawmakers/politicians are above the law and must be ignored when they commit fraud, and other crimes.
Caesar's "law" is arbitrary and capricious, based upon what he determines to be "reasonable" for the circumstances at the time.

the police and authorities like to harass these people, because of this...
...because of their boss Caesar's perception of freedom as a threat. When you're running a control trip on people, you can't have people running around with the truth. I enjoy motorcycle riding, and the police power enjoys stopping me frequently to deliver a lecture on freedom lol.

..satan has corrupted the entire system and law enforcement is no exception.
Scripture tells us to test people, to see if they are of God or not.

1 John 4:1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world."

This only makes sense, when one is sincerely interested in associating with godly people, while avoiding the contamination and influence of ungodly men.

The key, however, to the rejection of the rule of God was Article VI, Clause 3, "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several state Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

Most are unaware the "Constitution" forbids God. The Constitution was a rebellion against Christ and his authority over the nation, replacing it with the rule of man. The Bible warns us, "Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of?" (Isaiah 2:22).

An objection is that the Constitution contains Christian principles and therefore is a sort of halfway covenant. As evidence of this, they may offer that the Constitution presents us with a system of divided authority and diffused powers. Even covenant-breaking historians would admit that Christian principles exist within the Constitution while denying that it is a Christian covenant (the word “God” does not appear in the “Constitution”). The problem with this is that every government that exists contains Christian principles. In fact, any truth or correct morality is a Christian principle. All true and good principles are Christian principles because this universe is created and governed by the true and living God who has revealed himself in the Bible. Islamic governments contain many Biblical principles, such as capital punishment. That does not, however, save them from condemnation as apostate covenants. We must return to the question, what sort of Christian principles constitute a Christian government and what make an apostate government? The Biblical covenant model is the Biblical model and therefore the only proper judge of whether or not a state is a covenant-keeping one.

In Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961), the United States Supreme Court holds that the state of Maryland can not require applicants for public office to swear that they believed in the existence of God. The court unanimously rules that a religious test violates the Establishment Clause. This verifies that the U.S. Constitution allows Atheists to rule and make laws for bondservants of Christ!

“We the people...” = the religion of humanism. This is why citizens have Satanists ruling over them today -- and they signed on to their program voluntarily!