I've written in the past about Erie, Pennsylvania, the home of Governor Ridge and many other unpleasant abnormalities. I want to share a recent story about a cop from that eerie place.
According to official and published reports, police Lieutenant James Schwartz was off duty. It was 3 in the morning. I don't know why he wasn't at home in bed like decent folks, but police Lieutenant James Schwartz was apparently in an all-night diner. From what I can make out, off-duty police Lieutenant James Schwartz got angry at some other patrons in the diner, apparently cabbies.
Reportedly, off-duty police Lieutenant James Schwartz whipped out a gun. As you know, cops love guns. (They are so powerfully phallic!) They substitute for the personality and virility that cops wish they had.
Anyway, off-duty police Lieutenant James Schwartz may have just waved around his phallic pistol, or he may also have threatened and aimed it at the neck of another patrol, the story is not exactly clear. What we do know is that off-duty police Lieutenant James Schwartz said that he acted properly!
Cops are a gang, a Mafia. The whole cop-Mafia is totally out of hand. Cops have become surreal cult figures both in their own self-important fantasies and in the timid minds of a certain class of drone-citizens. It's bizarre!
For example, recently, two cops were killed on the job in the United States Capitol. I hate to see anybody killed, including cops. But cops are just people like the rest of us. My view is that if a guy takes a job and takes the pay, he also takes the risk. That's not heroism, that's employment. If he gets hurt or killed, that's regrettable, but it's part of the job description. A cop killed on the job is no more or less tragic than a truck driver killed on the job.
The ridiculous fuss that was made over the tragedy of the cops' deaths was absurd. They were lionized instead of mourned. Their funerals were circuses of the un-real staged to reassure the faithful drones. Cops from far-and-wide flocked to Washington to get in on the show. (Cops are very big on dress-up, pomp and being important.)
The episode should serve as an important lesson for us citizens. It's the cops against the rest of us! Very spooky! Like Germany in 1933!
In the same week that the cops were buried, a great American pioneer died and was laid to rest. His funeral was nothing compared to the grandiose extravaganza staged for the cops. Alan b. Shepard Junior's death was a heart rending tragedy that was almost ignored amid the militant fanfare over the cops. There's something seriously out of balance in our extremist society.
I extend my sincere condolences to the families of all three men. I also extend condolences to the families of the hundreds of other invisible, but equally important, people who died during the week including a prisoner named Spells. I extend sincere condolences to our country which has become so irrationally obsessive.
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