🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <33690624.35808912@news.gmu.edu>,
John M Atkinson <jatkinso@ANTISPAMgmu.edu> wrote:
}Thus Spake mfn8j@watt.seas.Virginia.EDU (Maximillian Natzet):
}
}
}%Yes, I would expect that most of the police would resist the
}%invaders, but they would cease to be police at that point.  I'm
}%speaking about legal niceties here, but once a civil
}%administration admits to being occupied (ie surrenders) it is
}%expected to cooperate - that is the point of surrendering.
}
}This is a little bit of a stretch, but yes, a police officer who engages in
}resistance activity ceases to be an officer of a peace, and becomes a resistance
}member.  Those two are mutually exlusive.

Peacekeeping collaborator by day, resistance fighter by night?
Perhaps mutually exclusive if the occupiers find out, but I won't tell
if you don't.  

Though I doubt it would come to that.  Most cops would roll
over and do anything for their new masters to maintain (and perhaps
even increase) their privileged position of power.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."