Bedawyn said:
Therent-a-cop reference was to the WMATA police, not to the MPD (Metropolitan Police Department, which for those that may not know is the DC Police). I was speaking of the nature of the beast in DC that allows the law enforcement to run a muck. The MPD is woefully underfunded for what they do. They have to serve both local and national interests, but little in the way of financial support from the Federal Government.
The refernce to the illegal dention of non-protesters was meant to show just how far the police due to limited resources, that MPD is going. I may have been wrong to introduce this in the same discussion of WMATA police, but it shows they attitudes that exsist, rightly or wrongly in the post 9/11 world.
*blink* Okay. I'm the last person to say anything nice about Bush, but even I can't justify blaming him for rules that were in place long before he took office.
The subject is that many of the issues we are seeing in in the atmosphere of the post 9-11 world. This administration is creating a climate of fear in order to gain favor for their efforts at trying calm our fear. This is allowing some to allow on many levels actions by those that are meant to serve and protect to do what they want with little regard to actual law, or common sense.
