Dear Editor:
It is my impression that the police in our country have seldom been celebrated by the general public, both law abiding and otherwise, as being at the height of intellectualism. Of course there are occasions when one brave one jumps into an icy river and dies trying to rescue a drowning individual. Every feeling person brings up brief crocodile tears, prints a business producing, bold short lived front page splash to avoid accusations of indifference. It doesn’t quite endure like a Janet Jackson breast exposure if any of you have conflict with my example.
Americans and their U.S. Constitution have never really sought a police state. Policing is generally scoffed at or at least been of minimum interest especially when it affects them very personally. The crime rates and the Wall St. debacles attest to that.
Therefore, why aren’t Americans honest? Why don’t they contact their legislators and admit they lack stomachs to apply real devotion to the impossible job of policing the entire world? Or is the answer rather that they wish all other countries to be policed if Americans are left to pursue the dog eat dog, and bottom line dictates, ethical behavior that is currently at our helm.
Angelo Nanfro