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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Police Unions View the Constitution as Optional.

28 DEC 2016
Prague, CZ

Police union demands Amazon to remove 'Bulletproof Black Lives Matter' shirt

The US's largest police union has urged Amazon to remove a T-shirt from its third-party marketplace that says: “Bulletproof: Black Lives Matter”.

The Fraternal Order of Police has already succeeded in having garment removed from Walmart supermarkets. But as of Sunday morning it was still available on Amazon.    
Union president Chuck Canterbury said he didn't expect that to change anytime soon.
Characterising Amazon as a “pretty liberal marketer", he told The Guardian that the T-shirt's rhetoric had inspired violence against members of law enforcement.
According to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, 64 police officers have been fatally shot in the line of duty in 2016.
At least 940 people have been killed by a police office across the country over the same period, according to the Washington Post database that tracks police violence.
The constitution of the US has a fairly clear "free speech" clause and there is no better example of the exercise of that clause than wearing a t-shirt that reads "BulletProof."
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

If the largest police union, and the members they represent, is/are unable to understand this clause, then they also fail to understand that free speech is at the foundation of a functional democracy.

This furthers my belief that the US police forces are a force against democracy (in particular democracy for Blacks and other minorities). They have become a quasi-miliatia that protects the rights of the "Haves" and ignores the rights of the "Have nots."

The continued existence of these types of police departments means that they will continue to transition into forces that will participate in the growth of Totalitarianism in America.

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