It was a threat wrapped in an axiom: “respect your local police.”
And who can disagree with the axiom? Police have a difficult and sometimes dangerous job. When they do it well, they are absolutely deserving of our esteem. “Respect your local police,” indeed.
But “respect your local police — or else”?
Respect them or the next time you ask them to provide services to which you are entitled as a citizen and a taxpayer, they might — what? — refuse?
And where is the First Amendment in all of this? Are we to accept that government will henceforth punish communities that exercise their right of protest?
Barr’s threat is superfluous evidence of the moral rot that has infested American governance since Jan. 20, 2017.
It is also a deeply fascistic expression of contempt for the Constitution he purportedly upholds.
- 'Respect your local police – or else?’, Columbian.com, December 9, 2019.
3. The situation with coronavirus has changed dramatically over the last few weeks. We are in the midst of a worldwide pandemic, and the U.S. will see an even more dramatic escalation in the weeks to come. As communities, institutions and individuals, we need to switch from reacting to what’s happened to taking bold action in anticipation of what’s coming.
Just two weeks ago, there were 15 cases diagnosed in the U.S. We have now crossed the threshold of over 1,000. An outbreak in Washington state has claimed the lives of at least 20 residents in one nursing home. In New York, the suburb of New Rochelle went from one case to over 110. There are likely many more clusters that are yet to be diagnosed due to lack of testing capacity.
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