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"Here's a suggestion... if you want to "Monday Morning Quarterback" me, the police, or our policies, strap on a vest, lace up your boots, kiss your wife goodbye while wondering if it will be the last time, and stand the line right along side me. Do a year or so in the communities that I walk in, and if you still have your same views and opinions, then we'll debate some more. If you're not willing, be thankful that some of us are.
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Regarding the case of the 92 year old woman in Georgia that shot three officers when they served their warrant, I just found this quote: "Dreher said the three drug officers "were well-trained" and had "served hundreds of warrants" over the years. Even though the officers were not required to knock before entering the house, they did, Dreher said.""
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brings it all into perspective for me...
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"We were wrong, terribly wrong. (We) should not have tried to fight a guerrilla war with conventional military tactics against a foe willing to absorb enormous casualties...in a country lacking the fundamental political stability necessary to conduct effective military and pacification operations. It could not be done and it was not done."
- Robert S. McNamara
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"We will take our napalm and flame throwers out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches...
We will leave you your small joys and smaller troubles."
- Eugene McCarthy in "Vietnam Message"
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never wrestle with a pig.
you both get dirty;
the pig likes it.
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