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Maximillian Natzet wrote:
> 
> mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu  writes:
> > And so do the state Police, so does that make them a militia?
> 
> Despite the appearance of South Central LA, the police are not
> a combat organization.  If an occupying power settles into a
> locality, the local police would be expected to continue to
> operate as law enforcement officers.

Ahem, if you thought they were not respected _before_, you expect that
local cops would have anything like respect if they became
_collaborators_? With an occupying power?

What of those officers (a very high percentage) who are also Reservists
or National Guardsmen? They would, unless ordered by their President to
surrender their arms and accept the new regime (I think that anyone
giving such orders is practically-by-default on the basis of such action
no longer President and can be ignored), be traitors at least and could
be expected to be reviled.

The concept of local police collaborating with an occupation force is so
inherently repugnant to any American I have to ask you what culture you
come from, that you could even make such a suggestion.

> 
> --
> Maximillian F Natzet, Combat Botanist
>         North American Combat Botany Institute
>         University of Virginia    Charlottesville, VA
> http://watt.seas.Virginia.EDU/~mfn8j/

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