No you’re not, you cowardly piece of shit.

U.S. private and government sniper training centers indoctrinate shooters into “DEHUMANIZING” a target so that the shooter can maintain a better mental health about their career choice.

As the Philadelphia Commissioner of Police shouted over a bull horn to the barricaded in their home MOVE group on Mothers Day 1985,

“This is America, come out with your hands up!”

The police then initiated an assault that expended ten thousand rounds and burned down sixty-one row homes and killed eleven people including five children.

“This is America, come out with your hands up!”

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

… perhaps the nation’s founders didn’t have the foresight to imagine swat teams in battledress with MP5 automatic assault rifles, flash-bang grenades, attack dogs, riot shields, armored personnel carriers. We’ve completely dismissed the intent of this Amendment and I think most people consider it to be outmoded and irrelevant. Why do so many law-and-order types think that the constitution stops at the 2nd Amendment?

See Robert Peel’s Seventh Principle of Policing: “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence.”

I have absolutely no problem with a course teaching the “warrior mindset” as it seems to be defined here; it addresses problems that strike me as being common to anyone who might have to use deadly force to defend themselves, their families, or their communities.

However, that’s all of us, every single one of us. This course seeks to create a special social and political class of “Only Ones” who are authorized to use deadly force against all the rest of us. The rest of us, who are barred from the course, are assumed to lack the judgment needed to make life-and-death decisions under attack, even with training.

No good.

I’d call that a troubling mix of police and military.

There are books about/for “Christian warriors,” and one called “Sharpening the Warrior’s Edge.” Mostly it’s about optimizing your strengths and performing to your potential. Is it bad because it has a pseudo-military connotation?

I’m not a cop, but I’m a warrior.

Actually, I’ve known several policemen who were very good soldiers and plenty of soldiers who would make really bad cops. In fact, you could make the argument that a large part of the reason Iraq became such a mess was because when we took control we gave the people soldiers for security when what they really needed was cops. The careers aren’t the same and neither group is particularly well-suited to do the other’s job (or their own) without proper training, guidance and leadership. That’s why the militarization of the police forces doesn’t work…because it’s not emphasizing the skills police need to do their jobs effectively, not because police aren’t capable of becoming soldiers.

But are these classes really a problem “fear management, decision making, emotional survival, physical fitness ?”

“Bradley said he cringes a bit when he hears politicians talk about ‘the war on drugs,’ because it assumes that police officers are soldiers, and citizens are the enemy. Bradley said that since he became chief, he has worked to remove the militaristic trappings of the NLRPD. . . . ‘I don’t want my officers out there thinking they’re soldiers against the enemy. That’s not what we’re about.’”

Does he approve of his officers signing up for this course? I don’t see how he could, given this statement.

http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=48fc8d26-650e-4708-88ab-9df53604ce6b

“A policeman’s job is only easy in a police state.”–Orson Welles