Comments on: “Death Dealer?”

By: Psychopolitik 2.0 » Unintentional Truth in Advertising

Psychopolitik 2.0 » Unintentional Truth in Advertising — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 21:51:49 +0000

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By: runcible

runcible — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:12:50 +0000

“… you should have seen their faces after flashing my badge and putting a Glock in their face.”
(From the Customer Comments Section)

Uh… wow.
And yes, it was a drug bust. You’re shocked. I can tell.

By: Max D.

Max D. — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:31:39 +0000

Most telling, perhaps, is that cops call non-cops “civilians.”

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 09:03:23 +0000

And the Law Enforcement community is perplexed as to why a growing number of their fellow citizens are regarding them as an occupying army carrying out the dictates of a increasingly more tyrannical government.

They’re dressing like and acting like an occupying military force and they’ve fully adopted a military mindset. They’ve become a standing army among the people. A more intolerable standing army among the people than British Regulars ever were.

Not that a military mindset or military tactics or military organization is a bad thing. It’s a great thing – for the military. They need a no holds barred warrior attitude that glorifies killing and the arts of war. They are to commended for becoming dangerous killing machines. That’s a great and necessary thing. The police however are not the military. They’re suppose to be peace officers. Civilians. When they adopt military customs and mentality they become an occupying army among the people and an instrument of tyranny.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:08:57 +0000

Andrew Williams-

Interesting point I thought of when you mentioned your friend subscribing to a cop magazine- a cop I bumped into a few months swears that there are people putting together databases based on mail received- gun magazines raise flags, drug and music magazines raise flags, etc. I’m not sure how true this is, but it sounds plausible.

We should probably all be subscribing to cop magazines and better homes and gardens if this is true!

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:04:53 +0000

as a firefighter, I gotta say that I get every conceivable novelty shirt, etc as a gift. many of the shirts are not in the best of taste- the ‘big johnson’ shirts with the hose as the fireman’s penis, etc are not the most professional. They come in handy for camping and goofing off, though.
I’m not defending asshat behavior, but… these are just shirts. I’d be willing to bet a fair amount of them are bought as gifts or novelty items, not as penis reinforcers.
as to the clowns who subscribe to the attitude the shirts present, please continue heckling them!

By: Andrew Williams

Andrew Williams — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:51:35 +0000

This has been going on for a long. I remember, when I first got involved in marijuana legalization in the early 1990s, seeing a number of these shirts in an ad from one of those cop magazines. (One of our members had a subscription, which he did not pay for, that he maintained under the aegis of “know thine enemy.”)
If cops keep insisting on seeing lawabiding citizens as potential enemies, does it surprise us that the Bush administration keeps seeing terrorists popping up everywhere? Especially when their actions create that effect? I’m afraid that, even with a change of administration, it won’t be long before “Papers please!” will be even more commonplace than it is now. And perhaps a civil war to follow.

By: chsw

chsw — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:17:15 +0000

The shirts do say something about the people buying them. First, it says that whoever is wearing them has a high probability of being armed. Also, the person has a high probability of being a police officer, Ergo, the shirts blow the cover of undercover policemen.

The shirts are not just in poor taste, but potentially hazardous to the wearer.

chsw

By: The Only Ones Dealing Death Enough « Darkblog

The Only Ones Dealing Death Enough « Darkblog — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:04:03 +0000

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By: jb

jb — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:51:02 +0000

I wonder if cops wearing that shirt will be permitted on airliners.

By: Radley Balko

Radley Balko — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:58:39 +0000

So Radley do you support legislation against bad taste?

No.

Or do you think these shirts say something about the mindset of the people buying them?

Bingo.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:50:57 +0000

So Radley do you support legislation against bad taste? Or do you think these shirts say something about the mindset of the people buying them?

By: Kwix

Kwix — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:55:58 +0000

I find it pathetic that 3 of the 5 “comments” on the site are about how well they stood up in some “drug operation” or other, one from a joint ICE/DEA op. You can’t tell me that police orgs don’t get both funding and jollys from busting a bunch of “dope heads”. Just sad.

http://www.bullet-50.com/comments.html

By: Watcher

Watcher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:26:27 +0000

What does a San Francisco cop do in his spare time?

Why, he’s a fashion designer, of course! … *snicker*

By: dsmallwood

dsmallwood — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:22:49 +0000

well, i don’t know about any of you, but i JUST CAN’T WAIT to see everyone wearing these shirts at the next PAL event.

this is nothing to be ashamed of right?

so when Officer Friendly is up on stage with Little Timmy and they’re talking about how cops are our friends, … Friendly and all of the other Boys in Blue will be wearing their “DEATH DEALER” T-shirts, right?

By: Outside The Beltway | OTB

Outside The Beltway | OTB — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:39:55 +0000

Paramilitarization of Police…

Radley Balko wonders why a catalog selling off duty noveltywear to police officers is doing selling “Death Dealer” t-shirts.
It’s just another sign, I’m afraid, of the paramilitarization of our police forces. Cops have long em…

By: Highway

Highway — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:39:37 +0000

Wayne, I don’t think they won’t sell to you. I think the marketing that Radley’s talking about is that they put ads and such in places where cops will see them, and don’t worry about ads anywhere else. If you find their site and buy things, they’ll probably take your money and send you the merchandise, but they weren’t necessarily spending money to get you to their store.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:31:39 +0000

I just can’t see the logic behind this:

“It looks as if the company markets exclusively to police officers. No problem so far.”

It’s a freakin’ shirt, for crying out loud, and I have a permit to carry concealed. Why can’t I get one? While private industry should be able to pick and choose their clients, it would seem that doing so in this case only serves to further alienate LE from the lowly citizenry.

By: CFisher

CFisher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:31:31 +0000

Ever get the feeling that some cops jack off to Judge Dredd?

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:26:13 +0000

#5 I’ve had the same curiosity with regard to the “thin blue line” stickers that police put on their personal vehicles. Not sure if this is common knowledge, but if you look around you’ll find these stickers are pretty common. They are used as a sly way for an on duty cop to identify an off duty cop and to extend professional courtesy without words. (http://66.128.49.139/images/thinblueline.jpg)
Not sure what’s to stop the general public from putting these on their cars other than concern over what might happen if they are found out.