Xave's Faves: A Cop Speaks Frankly on Occupy Wall Street
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Today's Xave's Fave is from PBSO. I haven't edited at all other than to break paragraphs. This is all one post. It isn't funny, either. I know, you just thought, "Well gee, your Xave's Faves are never funny, what else is new?" But this one really REALLY isn't. It's stomach turning.
"Anonymous poster: I find it very interesting that police officers and deputies across the country have not figured out that the Occupy groups are fighting for their (law enforcement officers futures) as well as our country's.
If the top 1% continue with their privatization movements and union dissolutions the officers now relishing trashing the Occupy group members will find themselves sitting beside them. Think it can't happen - think again."I have seen very little commentary about Occupy from any police officer, either positive or negative. I was a bit surprised to see this post pop up on www.pbsotalk.com.
"Anonymous poster: Here in Florida we've already seen our legislature vote to put 2/3 of the states Department of Corrections under privatization - selling it off in effect to GEO. (A court intervention is in progress but with the courts filled with Republican appointees it may not go well).
We now (along with all other state employees) must pay 3% of our pay into the state pension - but not get a penny more in retirement, plus we will no longer receive a COLA on any income earned after 7/1/11. Piece by piece the Republicans are whittling away at law enforcement benefits, upping the # of years they have to work to retirement, trying to limit over-time as included in pension payouts, etc.
Blackwater, GEO and others in the future would have no qualms about moving into law enforcement just as easily as they are taking over the Corrections field.
Think it can't happen open your eyes and see what's happening to law enforcement across this country. They want us to serve at their bidding but don't think we deserve the pay and benefits we've worked so hard to get."I am also very disturbed by the military-industrial complex branching out into prisons and public safety. This is well underway, not only among prisons but among police and fire departments. The primary group behind the "papers please" law in Arizona is a private prison company. Coincidence? Continued on the next page
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