Mark my words: Any police official who refers to citizens as “sheep” (and, perforce, to police as “Sheepdogs” or “Lions”) needs to be escorted from public life, sans badge, gun, and power, with extreme prejudice.
Like Broward County sheriff Scott Israel – whose office didn’t have time to investigate nearly forty contacts with Nikolas Cruz, but has had time to act like…
…well, a Democrat pol in office:
Israel had been a Republican but ran for office as a Democrat. He was first elected sheriff in 2012, then re-elected in 2016. According to the Sun Sentinel:
The outreach workers, who mainly attend community events, are in addition to political activists and others Israel hired into community affairs roles, writing and designing printed pieces about the agency, and sharing it on social media. The employee log shows six hired into community affairs roles, their salaries totaling $388,729.
Israel’s opponents say he’s built a publicly funded political machine, paying back supporters with jobs and using them to keep him in office. They say the money could be better spent, particularly after the sheriff complained about not having enough funding to secure the county courthouse, where a murder suspect recently escaped.
Sound like the priorities in a city rhyming with “Every schmiberal city in the schmunited shmates” to anyone but me?
Oh, yeah – and this next bit?
Asked about the allegations, Israel responded, “What have I done differently than Don Shula or Abraham Lincoln or Martin Luther King, Ghandi?”
He also said, “Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep.” That’s a paraphrase of a quote from the Game of Thrones character Tywin Lannister, a villainous public administrator known for promoting his family’s interests ahead of the government’s or the people’s.
Sheep.
That’s what he thinks of citizens. Not unlike way too many cops.
It’s time for some changes in Broward County.
On another subject. This weekend Delta Airlines and Enterprise Car Rental went on record against the NRA. This is unfortunate because I am a Delta Gold member and a National Car rental Exec Elite member; done business with both since the early 90’s.
I booked a flight this morning on my new carrier of choice: SouthWest, and will be picking up an Avis car at my destination (National is part of Enterprise Holding Company) I will be using my Delta Skymiles to travel to NRA events, or may donate them to the NRA.
This will be an inconvenience. I really liked Delta and National, but if we are not willing to undergo a bit of inconvenience to protect our Constitutional rights, why not just throw in the towel right now.
The wait for Delta customer service this morning was very lengthy. I hope the lines were clogged with NRA members informing Delta they are no longer going to do business with them.
I know there are several freq fliers among SITD readers, I hope y’all will take action.
Oh, and BTW. I received a poll from the NRA in the mail on Friday. I returned it with a generous contribution. I’m planning on making many more, because fuck leftist reprobates.
The idea that corporations can insert a political litmus test into all their transactions with their customers is something they should rapidly be discouraged from doing. Having to prove loyalty to the state with every transaction, which is what Delta, Enterprise,etc are doing, IS de facto fascism.
Additionally, if a Baker is forced by the state to bake a cake for a homosexual wedding then Delta should have to give NRA members a discount whether they like it or not.
I have to respectfully disagree, Mitch, as you are intermingling 2 entirely different ideas. He probably should be compared to a lion, since lions are indifferent to all of the other animals, and would eat them without a second thought, if they are hungry enough to bother.
For the sheep/sheepdog/wolf idea, you are missing the point. It isn’t the title, it is the heart of the person that decides what they are. There are cops/soldiers who fall into all 3 categories, and there are civilians who fall into all 3 categories. If you are a cop who is a sheep (or a wolf), you shouldn’t be a cop. The deputies who stayed outside are a good example of that. But there are plenty of civilians who are sheepdogs: willing to risk their own life to keep others safe when something bad happens, like the teachers and students who tried to protect others. Believing that people have different instincts doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be a cop, or a soldier. It is just accepting things for how they are. It would be best if those people who are cops but are afraid to run in realized what they are and found another line of work, but some people actually have to face that choice before they realize they can’t do it.
Mac, I didn’t even know Delta and Enterprise gave discounts. They really should have STFU, or even quietly discontinued them. I’d have been OK with that but they chose to signal their virtue by slamming a group I am a proud, very proud member of.
They took a side; so be it.
Israel was one of the 0bumbler’s Sheriff’s. ‘Nuf said.
AGS,
FYI, Avis and Budget also jumped on that bandwagon of not giving NRA members discounts.
Having been in the car rental industry before, I have to question whether or not these businesses can stop giving the discounts. These are contractual, so these businesses may be in violation of their own contracts.
Israel might be the most annoying public official since John Koskinen, the putz who ran Obama’s IRS. Imperious crap-weasels.
Boss, I don’t care if any company gives discounts. I don’t need ’em.
What I do care about is rolling out a Virtue PR campaign.
So if Avis and Budget have done that, fine. I’ll go with one that has not.
I’m really hoping people hit Delta and United hard. Business travelers are their bread and butter; we travel at the spur of the moment; we pay high fares.
Attracting us costs them plenty. Losing one that has a 30 year record of loyalty has got to hurt.
Look up what ATL just told Delta. Losing one diamond-head does not mean crap, but tax breaks, now that’s gonna hurt! Get ready for Delta to get renamed into Northwest and move HQ to MN!
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/26/georgia-lt-gov-will-kill-delta-tax-break-unless-airline-restores-nra-ties.html
Wo0t!
Excellent. I approve of this retaliation by my friends in Georgia.
“I really believe I’d run in, even if I didn’t have a weapon,” ~ DJ Trump
The only running Cadet Bone-Spurs has ever done has been to get as far away as he could get from a military recruiting station.
“The only running Cadet Bone-Spurs has ever done has been to get as far away as he could get from a military recruiting station.”
Unlike your heroes Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama who all served with honor?
Emery, Why didn’t Hillary serve – inquiring minds want to know?
Funny how a John McCain (tortured in Viet Nam after refusing a preferential release because he was an admiral’s son) or a Colin Powell (involved in firefights in Viet Nam) or a Bob Mueller (same as Powell) never made such ridiculous statements. The ones who been there and done that never have to. Most of the rest know to be quiet. Then there’s Trump.
“Then there’s Trump.”
and you obviously!
How many members of the Emery-Collective™ have served?
and Emery, why didn’t Obama, Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton serve?
Real bravery never brags about it, real courage never thinks about it, real genius never even knows it is there. And yet all of these things are self-evident to all who encounter people with these traits.
Trump has a weakling’s idea of how a tough guy talks, a fool’s idea of what a smart man would say, a bully’s idea of how a leader conducts himself, a coward’s idea of how a brave man acts, and an adolescent’s idea of how to be an adult.
Trump supporters must be so proud.
“Trump has a weakling’s idea of how a tough guy talks, “
says the Emery-Collective™ who clearly do not have a successful lifetime of experience dealing with unions, contractors and the corrupt east coast politicians.
“a fool’s idea of what a smart man would say, “
says the Emery-Collective™ who can’t understand how Trump easily, and cheaply, vanquished a field of dozen opponents and against all the predictions of experts like Emery handily beat Hillary.
Why did you refuse to serve Emery?
why didn’t Obama, Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton serve?
So Trump, basically, said that the cops acted stupidly?
Yes, Trump has a weakling’s idea of how a tough guy talks, which is why he made his initial career in a city infested with the Mob, where “f you and how are the kids” is a greeting.
Honestly, Emery, I have to wonder at times what color the sun is on your planet.
Brown, BB. It is brown. Because that is the only color Shvonder-eTASS sees for his collective’s heads are firmly planted in his anus.
Bike: I’m still idealistic. I just keep it safe behind a carapace of skepticism.
Just curious where Emery picked up his ability to read minds. How does he know what Trump would or wouldn’t do in such a situation? I bet Officer Peterson thought he’d run in too, until he didn’t.
I bet Officer Peterson thought he’d run in too, until he didn’t.
I’ve read lots of things over the weekend saying there were four officers on site who all waited outside, and the likelihood of them all being too scared to run in is pretty damn low. Which could lead one to believe that they were ordered to wait.
“I really believe I’d run in, even if I didn’t have a weapon,” ~ DJ Trump
The only running Cadet Bone-Spurs has ever done has been to get as far away as he could get from a military recruiting station.
My, my, my… Would you like some crow with that turd sandwich, Shvonder-eTASS?
Long before he was president, Donald Trump once stopped a man armed with a baseball bat in the process of mugging someone, according to news reports… The story is still on the archives of the Philadelphia Inquirer and multiple screenshots are available online, and it’s has been reported multiple times since it resurfaced in 2016.
I’ve read lots of things over the weekend saying there were four officers on site who all waited outside, and the likelihood of them all being too scared to run in is pretty damn low. Which could lead one to believe that they were ordered to wait.
That doesn’t bode well for the BSO.
Real bravery never brags about it, real courage never thinks about it, real genius never even knows it is there.
Just look at Gen. Patron go. Waxing philosophic with that big dick sticking out of his forehead.
Go get em little cowboy!