Message To Fellow Police Officers

[Denny347]

Yeah, screw that. The dude's pushing 400k on the gofundme. Will it stop at a half million???

The patriot can live pretty well, get the massage across and still find a better gig to serve the public.

A sucker born every minute

 

[Trigger Time]

That guy's not a pastor. He's not leading a flock (anywhere holy, that is); he's engaged in eschatology thumb sucking and nationalism.


EDIT:
The only "sign of the times" may be that people are now taking to YouTube, Twitter, etc. to spout off things.

Nothing he said is particularly new. As to the pastor, nothing he said is new at all - everything's been said for the past 150+ years; but mostly in tents.

I thought we were supposed to protect whistleblowers though.
Oh it only works one way, I get it

 

[JettaKnight]

That guy's not a pastor. He's not leading a flock (anywhere holy, that is); he's engaged in eschatology thumb sucking and nationalism.

You do not know him so why would you say that?

How did you come across this video?



Has you looked at his "back catalog" on YouTube?
Have you noticed how many of the videos are political (MAGA hat, anti-Obama)?
Have you noticed how many videos are teaching scripture? (I count zero)



I knew nothing about him till now. Almost all of his work has been anti-gay. not pro-marriage, but anti-gay, going so far as to claim that homosexuals are the real cause of Nazism and the holocaust.

As far as I can tell, he's never been the pastor of any church (thus he's unfit for the title "pastor") and his doctorate came in the mail from a Foursquare church in Riverside, CA.

I thought we were supposed to protect whistleblowers though.
Oh it only works one way, I get it

There's whistleblowers, then there's "let me sit in my car and bloviate about what I perceive as wrong."

 

[HoughMade]

So you're saying that when I'm sitting in my car bloviating, I should be streaming it.

 

[Brad69]

I am more about the $$ than the “great American” slant on this one.

1. Frustrated with job
2. Make viral video “basically take this job and shove it”
3. Sit back and draw in the sweet sweet go fund me money and unemployment with the $600 kicker

Not a bad gig will probably be on Fox News as a law enforcement expert.

 

[Dirtebiker]

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[2A_Tom]

OK folk, you disagree with him doing this in uniform.

Do you disagree with his message?

Asking for a friend.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

OK folk, you disagree with him doing this in uniform.

Do you disagree with his message?

Asking for a friend.

If my department has made zero arrests and issued zero citations and doesn't even respond to complaints of violations, do I still need to virtue signal? Asking for lots of friends.

 

[2A_Tom]

First, thanks for changing your avatar back.

Second, I have not had my rights infringed to the extent that others in other states have. That doesn't mean I am not pissed at what has gone on.

There have been a lot of officials that have broken their oath from top to bottom. It needs to be said, no one is going to listen to me, I cannot say I am sad that it is being said.

It seems that this guy may have crossed an unspoken line.

 

[JettaKnight]

If my department has made zero arrests and issued zero citations and doesn't even respond to complaints of violations, do I still need to virtue signal? Asking for lots of friends.

I thought virtue signalling only comes from the left, no? Asking for a friend.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

It needs to be said, no one is going to listen to me

Get a celebrity to say it then. Maybe have them kneel at a football game or something.

Officers should lead by example within their own organizations where, if they are actually leaders, they already have a standing among their fellows and are viewed as someone worth listening to. Some outsider isn't going to affect personal morals or department culture. Risking the first to be the second isn't something I'd consider. Especially because I know most of the people worshiping at this guy's alter today would crucify him tomorrow if he did the same thing but with a message they disagreed with.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

I thought virtue signalling only comes from the left, no? Asking for a friend.

Lots of friends need to get their own account these days, huh.

 

[Fargo]

So you're saying that when I'm sitting in my car bloviating, I should be streaming it.

Don’t you already bill for that?

 

[JettaKnight]

Get a celebrity to say it then. Maybe have them kneel at a football game or something.

Officers should lead by example within their own organizations where, if they are actually leaders, they already have a standing among their fellows and are viewed as someone worth listening to. Some outsider isn't going to affect personal morals or department culture. Risking the first to be the second isn't something I'd consider. Especially because I know most of the people worshiping at this guy's alter today would crucify him tomorrow if he did the same thing but with a message they disagreed with.

Good point.

It's easy to trust someone when they say exactly what you think. But if this guy was saying something I disagreed with, and if I was a cop, why would I listen to him? He's from the left coast (Seattle, no less), and there's nothing else there other than I agree with message... I don't know this guy from Ponch, Sheriff Andy, or officer Maxey. I have no idea if he's trustworthy.

I can't think of too many car-filmed videos that made me change my mind.

 

[HoughMade]

Don’t you already bill for that?

Do you even need to ask?

.1...no, I thought about the post. .2

 

[t-squared]

It seems that this guy may have crossed an unspoken line.

That's the thing, the line wasn't unspoken in the least. In fact the ex-officer was well educated in just where that line was.
Read the last paragraph from this article where his ex-chief explains what I mean....

https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/coronavirus/article242717401.html

 

[HoughMade]

“He is clearly a good police officer and an exceptional American. That said, as a police officer wearing one of our uniforms, his right to speech has limitations on which he has been well-trained and that he has understood since joining the policing profession,” Covey wrote. “Greg has always had the ability to express his opinions on what is going on in the country like all other Americans. However, he is not allowed to do so while on duty, wearing our uniform, wearing our badge and while driving our patrol care. Every police officer in the country understands that.”

​Tyranny!

 

[ljk]

Neat. Doesn't address my point in the slightest, but neat.

I must have missed the part of my oath that said "and use the megaphone of social media to show everyone how seriously I take this oath." Here I thought just doing the job ethically and legally was fulfilling the oath. I think they added that for Millennial recruitment, though.

If you don't social media, are you even a patriot bro?

Paychecks over rights?

 

[HoughMade]

Paychecks over rights?...

But hey, the people of wherever the Seattle Port Police patrol (which causes me to ask how often he was called upon to enforce social distancing, or whatever), have one less officer who would exercise his discretion to...not...oppress people, so it's all good...or something.

 

[Trigger Time]

​Tyranny!

Oh there's plenty of tyranny going on in this country.