Police officers & army personnell, would you turn on your fellow man?

[alternative-answer]

Originally Posted by Steve_A

Hi alternative-answer,

The probable answer to your question is 'Yes'.

We need look no further than Iraq to understand that people will kill based on religion (another way to write "politics").

We can see in African countries like Haiti killings on a mass scale and indeed years ago in South Africa where people were not only killed, but extremely violently (necklace), even a post in this forum showed a problem in Brazil with over 9000 people 'missing' over two years, many killed by off duty policemen or drug lords.

I really don't think that the US nor the UK would be any different if the situation becomes the same as in any of the scenarios I've just mentioned.

As George Green once said, "One day without food, people will steal for it. Two days without food people will kill for it."

We need not look too far to remember the looting in new Orleans after the hurricane to see how quickly law and order can be lost. Imagine that now on a national scale. What other simple answer is there?

Best regards,

Steve

This is a bit fatalistic, I disagree that when it comes to it, we will turn on each other, I think as the truth is revealed those in positions of (alleged power) will defend their own. We tend to become more galvanised here in the uk.

[Sol Invictus]

Will the Police defend the powers that be to their dying breath? you better bet the farm they will here in the UK.

I been on the other side as a Civvie Police worker and seen how it works in
'job' circles.

You are either 'Job' or not. Its that simple and stark. When you leave and are no longer 'Job', you are again part of the problem and as distrusted as a person who has never even set foot in a Police station.

Believe me, these people are vsicious and will stop at nothing to defend one another from a non-'job' threat at all times.

I got sick of seeing grown adults treated like animals or worse when they had to interact with the Police and forever will hold them lower than the **** off the b ottom of my shoe.

The question should not be 'will you turn on your fellow man', it should be 'how do you sleep at night knowing that day in day out you stand full square on against your fellow man and ready to turn on them at any given moment and enjoy it'.

[Steve_A]

Hi alternative-answer,

With all due respect I think there may be a rosy picture trying to be painted here.

As a youth I remembered the extremely aggressive behaviour of football 'fans' making not only the supporters of the other team, but also their own 'run the gauntlet' when I lived in Heywood near to Bury - Lancashire.

We cannot also forget the Toxteth riots which spread nationwide - I remember listening to shortband hearing the police trying to stop unruly people attempting to loot a town center.

I remember also when the coalminers went on strike during the hard times - desperate times called for desperate measures.

The point is that people are capable of hurting and maiming just for the fun of it, so I imagine that if they had a reason to hurting and maiming and killing (like here in Brazil) it just becomes second nature.

We've all seen images of Africa where dead bodies are strewn and pedestrians walk by not even noticing what is on the ground.

We are capable of anything put under the right circumstances and that was the point I was trying to make.

Best regards,

Steve

Originally Posted by alternative-answer

This is a bit fatalistic, I disagree that when it comes to it, we will turn on each other, I think as the truth is revealed those in positions of (alleged power) will defend their own. We tend to become more galvanised here in the uk.