This is like 1965 East Berlin!

Talking about a CONFUSING world? What do you say when the local police pull up to assorted people who might simply be walking home from a store, or maybe going to a store when a plain, unmarked car pulls up along side and police in CAMOFLAGE gear jumps out, grabs you and throws you into JAIL?

Sounds kinda like what used to happen in EAST Germany/EAST Berlin back in the 60’s and 70’s doesn’t it? Well, this is NOT a movie set nor is it 60 years ago. It is, in fact, PORTLAND, OREGON this week. It would appear that the Portland, Or. City council has decided that the police in “THEIR” city should work more like the KGB or the GBR than Municipal police.
This is getting to be extremely wide spread where local Police Departments have the mistaken idea that they are COMBAT TRAINED Military wannabes. This is why they “shoot to kill” rather than “Discuss and defuse” any situation. WHY do WE let them get away with this behavior? Is it because they are too afraid to do their job any other way? Is it because they will SHOOT YOU on sight if you stand up and say “WHY” to them? Is it because WE, as a whole, have gotten so BRAIN WASHED that we really think they are doing good work? Why is it that for at least 100 years, one nation’s police force DID NOT CARRY GUNS? WHY is it that only in the past 30 years there has been more police shootings/killings than at any time prior to 1980? Even in the 1800’s there were fewer police killings per capita than there are now. In the 1800’s through 1950 there were far fewer executions than there have been in the last 50 years.

© Mitchell 2020-07-18