Yes who would be crazy enough to disagree with a man who accounts the same authority for the NYPD as the president of the US. I wonder if you would say the same if we had a whiter, bushier president?
Egads indeed.
I realize that this is a difficult thing, but anyone who works for the public, is our servant, not our master. This would include our police, bureaucrats, local counsels, mayors and Presidents. All of them work for us, and it is to us that respect is due. While all have responsibilities commensurate to their position, the lowly police and the POTUS have something in common. They are to execute the laws of the land. It should painfully apparent that assuming a higher position comes with it greater responsibility. An officer can do great wrongs. That does not mean they must, but they have a little power, a little authority to use and occasionally use it contrary to their duty. That results in possible harm to relatively few, although if someone is harmed they don't really care who does it so much as that it was done. A greater number of low level government workers can obviously affect a larger number directly and NYC is dealing with that now.
Now to rational people it would be apparent that the higher the office the greater the potential to benefit or harm. The more powerful, the greater the consequence to a larger number of people. At the top of the food chain is the POTUS. If the cops in NYC decide to not bust someone with a joint they certainly are ignoring law. They are allowing a handful of people to violate law including the Controlled Substance Act. That bothers you.
On the other hand we have Obama who by virtue of office is tasked with the execution of Federal laws, that same Controlled Substance Act, allowing EVERY PERSON IN THE US TO VIOLATE THE LAW. He does this by allowing states to write laws contrary to federal law, and ignoring all of it.
One person has the power to affect everyone, so yes I hold Obama to a level of responsibility commensurate to that power. If that makes no sense to you that makes no difference.
Now you have failed yet again with aspersions of racism on my part alluding to my support of "whiter bushier" Presidents. When the Democrats and the Republicans supported the war in Iraq War even before it happened I was against it. I ripped Cheney, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld new ones for years while the One You Adore, has failed so far to investigate to the fullest abuses done in those days. I want a full investigation of the entire last administration including the role Bush played. I was and am against arresting US citizens without charge and legal representation and have been always. You could do a search and find something contrary to what I say, but of course you can't.
Now again I'm not upset personally, because you are absurd. I can get irate and have but that usually is with those who I think have the intellectual ability and character to understand.
Now you can of course discredit me. All you have to do is find where I say police should be allowed to murder. You could find where I support Presidential abuses of privacy. How about Jose Padilla? You probably never heard of him. Yeah I was for his treatment- oh no I wasn't. Then I was all about going after Saddam, the Al Qaeda supporter for 10 years, as Cheney claimed- Oh wait, again I didn't. I think that Cheney is reprehensible. You could find that, but you would see that Whitey Cheney isn't someone I care for at all.
Now if you can find a post by another and my full response which suggests I love the Patriot act, or I think every pot user should be arrested. Oh I think Obama has the legitimate authority under the law (it's in the CSA about how drugs are scheduled) to at least change a major offense to a minor one, but he never did so. He should have. Bush should have. Clinton should have, but none of them did. Guess who's in office now? It's not Whitey Bush Jr. Are you really that racist as to believe that someone's color should shield them from criticism of abusing or ignoring their duty? Yes, I believe you are.
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