It’s Just Too Easy

by digby

Update:
Here’s a little advice for you bleeding heart hippies, brought to you by a guest post at The Corner from an LA Police Officer:

[S]ince the president is keen on offering instruction, here is what I would advise he teach his Ivy League pals, and anyone else who may find himself unexpectedly confronted by a police officer: You may be as pure as the driven snow itself, but you have no idea what horrible crime that police officer might suspect you of committing. You may be tooling along on a Sunday drive in your 1932 Hupmobile when, quite unknown to you, someone else in a 1932 Hupmobile knocks off the nearby Piggly Wiggly. A passing police officer sees you and, asking himself how many 1932 Hupmobiles can there be around here, pulls you over. At that moment I can assure you the officer is not all that concerned with trying not to offend you. He is instead concerned with protecting his mortal hide from having holes placed in it where God did not intend. And you, if in asserting your constitutional right to be free from unlawful search and seizure fail to do as the officer asks, run the risk of having such holes placed in your own.

When the officer has satisfied himself that it was not you and your Hupmobile that were involved in the Piggly Wiggly heist, he owes you an explanation for the stop and an apology for the inconvenience, but if you’re running your mouth about your rights and your history of oppression and what have you, you’re likely to get neither.

— Jack Dunphy is an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. “Jack Dunphy” is the author’s nom de cyber. The opinions expressed are his own and almost certainly do not reflect those of the LAPD management.

Again, you have to wonder what the good people of the NRA — especially all those poor truckers John Thune was going on about, who need to carry concealed weapons across state lines — think about this police officer’s attitude about their “constitutional rights” and running the risk of having holes placed in their bodies. I would guess that odds of said officer putting holes in someone who is carrying a piece are substantially higher than the average person, whatever the race or social status. Especially the very thin-skinned, clearly pyschologically unfit ones such as this fellow.

Do you sense that things are getting a little bit confused out there?

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