What Do You Think?

[John.hergy]

There is a time and place for police to use force with crowds and demonstrations. But by saying they would follow ANY order to use force sounds as though they would be willing to fire live rounds into an unarmed crowd that is only chanting and making statements that the powers that be do not like. THAT is a scary thought.

"I'm not able to even fathom that any of those police officers would not carry out whatever orders were given to do their job," Tracy Fuller, head of the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association, tells the Raw Story.

Apparently they do not remember all the war trials past and present where it was deemed irrelevant that people were just following the orders they were given they were still found guilty and punished for doing things that they should have been protesting or at most carrying out those orders under protest and duress.


copied from:
http://www.newser.com/story/112554/wed-absolutely-use-force-on-protesters-wis-police.html


(Newser) – Wisconsin troopers would "absolutely" use force on protesters if ordered, says the head of a Wisconsin police union. Thousands of protesters have gathered at the Wisconsin statehouse for the past week, protesting the governor's proposals to cut public employee wages and collective bargaining rights. "I'm not able to even fathom that any of those police officers would not carry out whatever orders were given to do their job," Tracy Fuller, head of the Wisconsin Law Enforcement Association, tells the Raw Story.

However, Fuller added, "I can't even imagine that the governor or anybody else would think that's a viable option. It would not look like the United States, if we did that. No one said anything to me about anything like that." Fuller also says the union is opposed to the governor's proposals to strip public unions of their collective bargaining rights. State troopers won't be losing their right to collective bargaining under the bill, although some members of two other police agencies the union represents will.