In a scathing letter yesterday, Philadelphia FOP Lodge 5 president John McNesby demanded an apology from the Bucks County Courier Times for the cartoon.
"Surprisingly, you have at least one reader of that excuse for a newspaper you run," McNesby wrote. "The one reader forwarded a copy of your disgraceful and highly offensive 'cartoon.' "
He went on to write that the newspaper owed an apology to every law-enforcement officer and their families for the cartoon.
"There is a special place in hell for you miserable parasites in the media who seek to exploit violence and hatred in order to sell advertisements," McNesby wrote later in his letter to the Levittown-based paper.
Since the cartoon appeared in the paper Sunday, it has drawn criticism in letters to the editor and on social media.
In a response to the backlash headlined "To our readers," posted on the paper's website yesterday, executive editor Patricia S. Meagher-Walker wrote: "Our Editorial Page is a forum for opinions, even controversial ones. Letters, cartoons and guest opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of our editorial board, rather that of the author or artist."
Meagher-Walker added: "Those who subscribe to this newspaper understand our commitment to the community and our steadfast support for law enforcement and those who work very hard to make Bucks County a better place to live. We are united in that effort," and encouraged angered readers to write letters to the editor. One letter already submitted and published in the Courier Times yesterday came from the wife of a police officer.
Kim DeForrest, of Morrisville, called the cartoon "ignorant," writing in part, "Yes, there are police who make mistakes or poor judgment. However, these fine men and women leave their families every day with a gun strapped to their hip and Kevlar on their chest to go out and protect the fine citizens who read your papers."
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They are not police. They are revenue agents feeding of the population and the cops' families are helping them be parasites upon us all. Time to lose the legal name. losethename.com
ReplyDeleteThe key to unlock the cage we all find ourselves in at this time is the
ReplyDeletejudiciary. This branch of government was created, in part, to protect
the people from the ambitions and excesses of the other branches of
government. Nearly all important issues are ultimately determined in a
courtroom. Citizens no longer have direct access to grand juries and
find that their complaints are first filtered through the political
office of the district attorney who will routinely refuse to prosecute
anyone who is politically connected. Litigants are routinely denied
standing or due process in the courts to frustrate those who seek
justice from the state.
In Marbury v. Madison the supreme court ruled that an unconstitutional
statute is void “ab initio” or from it’s inception. It reasonably
follows that one of the first issues before any court should be the
constitutionality of the law involved. Judges swear an oath to support
and defend the constitution, within which is found your right to due
process of law. Why is it that a denial of due process, the very
definition of a void judgement, per Black’s 6th, never renders any
judgement void or results in prosecution of the judge for perjury of his
oath?
Judges are the gatekeepers of society. We depend upon them for redress
and remedy. They have failed. In order to obtain remedy we must take
back our courts by holding judges accountable.
“Jail For Judges” is a concept which creates an external review board to
hear complaints of judges actions and negligence and to sanction judges
up to and including imprisonment. When judges must choose between
according due process to litigants and going to jail for failure to do
so, that is when people will receive due process and not a minute
before. When “Jail For Judges” becomes law in any single jurisdiction,
i.e. any state of the union, a person need only move to that state long
enough to establish residency in order to qualify to petition the court
for vacation of a facially void judgement, which is the court record of
a case which demonstrates a denial of due process.
People must qualify ballot initiatives to institute “Jail For Judges”
and re-institute direct access for the public to grand juries to
facilitate indictments against govt. actors who commit crimes. In this
way the system may be used to purify itself and to return our country to
a constitutionally restrained republic.
So you propose that because judges as gatekeepers of society have failed, let's create the 2nd level of pretty much the same judges, presumably more independent and thus more fair than the 1st. If that was possible, wouldn't it be easier to simply fix the 1st level.
ReplyDeleteMcNesby is a load of shit; by the way, there is only one way to be safe from cops: it's by killing all of them.
ReplyDeleteNo, we need something which is called Switzerland - there in Switzerland do people have the power to get rid of political thugs or criminals - by voting them out any time.
ReplyDeleteThe fourth power the people need to have the sane means to get rid of trash and perversion.
By the way it is Judea which rules America.
maybe if the cops stopped being trained by Israeli counter terror units (thanks to dual citizen head of DHS michael chertoff) and stopped murdering unarmed Americans by the hundreds, (including 12 year old children "armed" with toys) maybe Americans would feel SAFE around their "public servants"... but we all know Police aren't there to SAVE people.. they are there to extort money for the State and provide slaves for the private for profit prison system and terrify the populace into submission to the police state boot on the face mentality.
ReplyDeletefood for thought.
it reads as if you are under the idea that the legal construct exists to serve non-bar members. it may help to see it for what it actually is: there is man and there are man-made constructs called legal fictions or persons or corporations. The corporations are animated and ultimately controlled by bar attorneys their prime objective being profit to the bar attorneys. All courts, states, and countries are corporations. If you invoke a legal name, that name is corporate property. The legal name is the way in which the legal construct sees and processes the actual man. The key to it all is the legal name. Without the legal name there is simply no way for the legal participants to see you then it is game over for the attorneys and cops. Time to be a man or woman and nothing else. losethename.com
ReplyDeleteObviously not all police are abusive, but perhaps police departments could improve the screening process to weed the bad ones that give all the others a bad rep. Or perhaps quit taking federal dollars that mandate this type of aggressive training that some officers seem to take to faster than others. I like this cartoon; it reveals the elephant in the room. Now we can talk about it.
ReplyDeleteIt is the police who need to apologize and clean up their act. Instead of complaining about a cartoon, the police should be driving out of their own ranks the corrupt, abusive, and criminal elements that have brought their fellow members into disrepute. The sad part is that police leadership has been so corrupted, so blinded and drunk with power that they no longer see anything wrong with murder, rape, theft, assault, breaking and entering, etc, when they do it.
ReplyDelete"However, these fine men and women leave their families every day with a gun strapped to their hip and Kevlar on their chest to go out and protect the fine citizens who read your papers."
ReplyDeleteWhat nonsense. They go out every day to write tickets and to harass citizens. They party at night, busting in doors and terrifying people in their own homes. They kill for kicks, and rape women whenever they think they can get away with it. They steal. They lie in their official reports and in court. Why not? Who's going to prosecute them?
Fine men and women? They may have been when they started, but power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. When a policeman starts thinking he's done nothing wrong, he is corrupted. When a lodge president thinks so, it is a sign the department has become so corrupt that it can no longer be trusted.