Comments on: The title of my book . . .

By: Guestblogging at The Agitator — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen

Guestblogging at The Agitator — The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:52:32 +0000

[...] the most effective libertarian advocates around, and I’m honored to stand in while he writes a much-needed book. My first post introduces who I am and links some old favorites from the League and elsewhere. [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 23:12:11 +0000

#13 | Aresen | July 13th, 2012 at 12:12 pm I was kinda expecting Another Isolated Incident.

That's the title of every chapter.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:45:18 +0000

That is a great title. It is expressive of the content and relativity neutral in tone, indicating that the subject will get a fair review. Hopefully the artwork will carry the same message. The topic is important and needs both a fair review and access to a broad audience.

By: treefroggy

treefroggy — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:21:12 +0000

Mall Ninja is closer to the truth. I’ll believe warrior when their targets shoot back while garbed in the same body armor and full-auto M4s. Not to mention the occasional armored car.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 01:15:41 +0000

Best of success to you, Radley, with this important work. I look forward to buying several copies.

By: Baldacci

Baldacci — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 18:32:41 +0000

I like this title very much. When it’s published, I’m buying. Thank you for your patriotism Radley!

By: Yizmo Gizmo

Yizmo Gizmo — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:26:51 +0000

“Say Hello to My Little Friend” would be a good subtitle.

By: CyniCAl

CyniCAl — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:11:28 +0000

They were able to successfully tranquilize one of the chimps. Why not the other?

I agree that chimps can be dangerous, but as dangerous as a human? We let billions of those roam free.

Anyway, it was amusing to see this turn into a reddit thread. Funny stuff.

By: marco73

marco73 — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:50:00 +0000

When the video game version comes out, make sure there are extra points for beating handcuffed suspects while shouting “Stop Resisting!”, and extra ammo for shooting puppies and chimps. This could be bigger than Modern Warfare.

By: Ben

Ben — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 04:14:06 +0000

Radley,
When the book comes out, try to use your Huffington Post connection to get on the Daily Show. Stewart has authors on constantly (at least 1 or 2 a week), and your sales will fucking skyrocket if you get on the show. And Stewart is actually a pretty damned fair guy for someone who admittedly is primarily on one side politically. And his mostly left audience is a good audience for the subject matter.

By: Other Sean

Other Sean — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:01:33 +0000

The value-free ring of that title, though hardly red meat for our crowd, is actually an important virtue. The book needs to be read. If he called it “No-Knock This, Asshole!” and put a picture of a dead dog on the cover, it might be awhile before his opus started showing up on college reading lists.

Besides, the title he went with has some amusing potential as a false flag. Some people will up buying it as a birthday gift for the cop in the family. Maybe some chief who only reads the title will embarrass himself by assigning it in his police academy. Now that would be a nice story to read on morning links.

By: Bernard

Bernard — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:48:41 +0000

Steven Seagal will buy the big screen rights within hours.

By: Bobby Black

Bobby Black — Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:11:42 +0000

56 Is a perfect subtitle…

By: Bob Mc

Bob Mc — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:44:55 +0000

I know you have already chosen a title, and this is not a book title suggestion thread, but I can’t help myself-

“Us vs Them”: When Police wage war against those they have sworn to “Serve and Protect”

By: Collin

Collin — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:15:40 +0000

How about Stop Resisting! for a title, or at least a chapter heading.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 23:01:05 +0000

Aw crap. It seems I copy-pasted way too damn much on accident. Can one of the people with the keys to this place delete everything in the blockquote except for the stuff from the last 4 lines?

By: Christopher Swing

Christopher Swing — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 22:15:06 +0000

Robocop? pfft. Too nice.

I think we all know the US is aiming to make the parody/satire that is Judge Dredd normalized reality.

OTOH, To the best of my memory Dredd usually only referred to people as “creep!” or “citizen,” being smart enough to realize “civilian” would be wrong. So at least that character realized he was a street judge, not an occupying soldier.

By: just a libertarian cop treading water

just a libertarian cop treading water — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:48:54 +0000

Would love to speak freely about this exact topic one day to you Radley.
I have been in the police game for 20 plus years, after a tour of duty as a Marine infantryman.

Gots lots of thoughts on this subject.

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:34:34 +0000

Since others are offering alternative titles, how about this one:

“Because We’re the Police and You Aren’t: Entitlement,
Paranoia and Militarism in American Law Enforcement”

But I think your title is fine. Thanks for the hard work and I look forward to reading your book.

By: jb

jb — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 20:20:53 +0000

How about just: Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces