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[Target Practice]

Something stirring in the air, a victory?
A time-bomb ticking to explode,
3 2 1 and go.
Something passive, something not.
Billy clubs out, call the S.W.A.T.
Rabid dogs without a leash,
is this how you keep the peace?

You want riots? Wear your riot gear.
You want violence?
Then shoot some tear gas in the air.

It is written on your badge,
'To serve and protect',
it seemed you only served yourselves,
protecting your own neck.

Controlling with fear, menacing and threatening.
You want my respect?
You better start respecting me.

Go and get your riot gear,
swing your girlie all around,
we'll be dancing on the cinders,
as the town is burning down.
Swing her around, burn it all down.

Something smelled of power tripping,
crowd control was rank.
Tear gas everyone downtown,
what you did really stank.

Legislation, never made you judge and jury.
Marshal law now,
beat the kids down with no worries.

Go and get your riot gear,
swing your girlie all around,
we'll be dancing on the cinders,
as the town is burning down.
Swing her around, burn it all down.

[Kai]

I think
Therefore I butt

[Boski51]

I will fight for your right to protest, even if you protest me.

But your right to protest has limits and brake those limits and you become a criminal. At such point, you loose my protection and become a target.

Brought to by the USMC. When you care enough to send the very best.

[Recon by Fire]

Sorry that is just piss poor....

When people start burning cars and looting and other sorts of general violence it is not a demonstration, a protest, or anything else but a riot. And when that happens, somebody has to step in and restore order...and it is not going to be with pleasant words like "please".

[Maksimus54]

Good call, the police started the riots. Cause you know tear gas is always used to provoke violence, never to try and break up violent groups. As far as respecting the police, I don't think they are the ones that should be respecting you first. They put their life on the line for stupid things like speeding tickets everyday, why shouldn't they respond to rioters with violence? They are people too and when others threaten to tear apart everything they protect of course they have the right to beat the crap out of you. If you really think the police start riots you're a hippy, and hippies suck.

[ThePixelGuru]

I will fight for your right to protest, even if you protest me.

But your right to protest has limits and brake those limits and you become a criminal. At such point, you loose my protection and become a target.

Brought to by the USMC. When you care enough to send the very best.

Because nothing good has ever come out of disobeying a law... Like desegregation, or, hell, our country. There are limits, yes, but sometimes you've got to stand up for what's right, and people will look back and thank you for your contribution. I respect that fact that you're willing to lay your life on the line for our country, but to think that laws are always right is pretty blind. We don't always get things right; that's why laws change from time to time.

[Recon by Fire]

Laws are not always right. But promoting civil unreast and violence is never right.

[tropical_fishy]

Laws are not always right. But promoting civil unreast and violence is never right.

We'll all keep that in mind next time we're promoting unreast.

[kosmo]

Ahem... The very best can spell. I would never trust my rights to the political juggernaut of "free-willed thought" that is the military. Wait a minute... I would never again trust my rights to the aforementioned military. To say that police dont start riots is a bunch of freakin BS. And to say that civil unrest and violence are always wrong is absolutely unamerican. If that were true we wouldnt have the second ammendment. Not that I hate police officers and authority in general. Watch that video of the cop in GA getting gunned down pulling over a speeder and hearing him scream for his life as the guy empties a few more rounds into him definitely makes a valid point about the safety of law enforcement officers. But then on the opposite end of the spectrum you have things like the Kent State riots, and dumb as a Dick Cheney telling the CIA they wont be prosecuted for torture unless it causes death or organ failure. The bottom line is until we as a species learn to leave each other the heck alone, we will need some form of authority attempting to make us do so. And until we learn to leave each other the heck alone, that authority will be a failure.

[AutomagBoy]

This thread is silly. The police's job is to promote the GENERAL welfare, not the ISLAMIC welfare. The muslims were destroying france, so france put them down. In my opinion i dont think the police went far enough, but that's probably just the facist in me speaking.

Also about the USMC quote. Laws should ALWAYS be upheld even if they seem wrong at the time. You know why? we have a legislative branch, its convienent really. It can make laws, change laws, repeal laws. Its pretty dandy, you should check it out.

[Recon by Fire]

We'll all keep that in mind next time we're promoting unreast.

Darn...I would sound so much more intelligent if my keyboard would cooperate once in a while......

[tropical_fishy]

Darn...I would sound so much more intelligent if my keyboard would cooperate once in a while......

Ah, well. Hand-eye coordination is obviously unimportant, especially in military positions.

[Boski51]

Because nothing good has ever come out of disobeying a law... Like desegregation, or, hell, our country. There are limits, yes, but sometimes you've got to stand up for what's right, and people will look back and thank you for your contribution. I respect that fact that you're willing to lay your life on the line for our country, but to think that laws are always right is pretty blind. We don't always get things right; that's why laws change from time to time.

When you join the military in the United States, you give your word that you will uphold the US Constitution (our basis of law in this country). By doing this I pleged to protect the rights of US citizens as they are detailed in the aformentioned document. All US citizens have rights, even the poor guy who had his car, or house or business tourched by those "protestors".

As a service person in the military, you are not given the authority to change laws that don't suit your fancy or liking. That's not how the system works. We leave all that to the doe eyed college kids that would rather ***** about some fashionable "injustice", than actually do something constructive to change those laws....LIKE MARTIN LUTHER KING!!!!! (point is, burning down stuff didn't end segregation. Non-Violant protest did, which is one our our rights.)

I don't mean to offend with this comment, just trying add a little different view point. Healthy debate is one of those neat rights we get to enjoy.

[kosmo]

Boy youll just believe anything they tell you, wont you?

[thefuzz]

Boy youll just believe anything they tell you, wont you?

And you believe anything a band, politician, or college professor tells you? I'm a cop. You don't know what its like to be a cop until you're a cop...enough said. I put my life on the line for dirtbags who need help even though I know they're dirtbags. I help people who've hated the police and will continue to hate the police even after I help them. I meet people at their worst and see the best of my co-workers...all to keep you safe. I get targeted because I wear a badge and carry a gun. People run, people fight, people kill us because of that badge and gun. They don't have something against each individual personally, but what we represent. And we go back day after day and do the same thing.

Are there bad cops? Sure there are, just like there are bad paintball players, bad businessmen, or bad drivers...but a majority are there for good. There are cops who make hummy cases just because they think the person needs locked up. Then again there are cops who don't make cases when they could because the person doesn't deserve to be locked up. We put more than our lives on the line everyday as well as our family's livelyhood. I can be sued for doing or saying the wrong thing...even if I thought it was the right thing to do. If I shoot some 15 year old kid who pointed an airsoft gun me, my job is secure but my life ruined. If I shoot a drug dealer who's shooting at me, on the news he's suddenly the "bestest boy one could ask fo and he do be a good church goer erey sunday." If I shoot someone and it was deemed a bad shooting, I lose my job and I get sued and lose everything I own. When we fight with someone, we have to keep policy in the back of our mind. We're expected to put with with more crap, yet deal less of it out. We're expected to hold our temper when we're getting dog cussed for writing some rich guy a ticket for almost running over a kid on a bike. Like I said, you don't know what its like to be a cop until you're a cop.

The people who say: "F**K the Police" are usually doing something illegal in the first place. If you're one of those people, screw you but I'll be there when you need me.