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Launching a Neutral Line

To protect and serve Is a blue line blurred In a dated colour scheme ***

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Caren Krutsinger

Date: 6/8/2020 6:28:00 AM

I would not be a police officer now for all the tea in the Boston Harbor. I wanted to at one time, but it has become a dangerous job. "Dated colour scheme" - this has such a terrific underlying current.

Kim Rodrigues
Date: 6/19/2020 6:00:00 PM

Yes, my dad,today, brought up the pack mentality.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 6/8/2020 2:25:00 PM

A lot of my family worked in forensics at RCMP, and I have a cousin who is a police officer... she is a lovely person, I can't imagine her being at all racist, I must assume she is one of the good ones. But like the Stanford experiment showed, our pack mentality can get the better of us. xomo

Jeff Connelly

Date: 6/4/2020 8:30:00 AM

The barker yells, "Gather round folks to see the freak show oddities of Blue bloods and red boned hounds. Only for a dollar."

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 6/4/2020 8:39:00 PM

Awesome that is. It sure is fun to have a functioning brain I must say. I am such a better place these days. x

Jeff Connelly
Date: 6/4/2020 5:55:00 PM

Isn't it funny how the brain functions. I laugh therapeutically everyday.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 6/4/2020 1:08:00 PM

Bob Barker, and The Price Is Right... You send my brain to funny places. ~x

Anil Deo

Date: 5/31/2020 7:41:00 PM

if dated means also "old-fashioned bias." at least in MINNESOTA with Mr. Floyd's death, 8 minutes of a cops knee on his neck! shalom---forgIve us LORD

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 8:22:00 PM

And forgive them for they know not what they do won't work, the Stanford prison experiment already proved that. Sigh and love and peace my friend, xomo

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 8:21:00 PM

"old fashioned bias" indeed! I could hardly stomach my grandmother's racist spewing near the end, if that comes with age, well I will stick to forever young thank you. If everyone with a conscience stood up, might the rioters be outnumbered?

Sam Kauffman

Date: 5/31/2020 6:37:00 PM

Words to ponder, Maureen. Thank you for sharing this gem of wisdom.

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 8:23:00 PM

Thank you Sam. Peace and hugs, xomo

Rico Leffanta

Date: 5/31/2020 1:40:00 PM

Alas, it is true; bobbies are people, too! Aloha! Rico

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 8:17:00 PM

The Stanford prison experiment, except schools are out and guns are in. As I like to say, we are too smart to function. Don't the bobbies have billy bats? RSD xomo

Arturo Michael

Date: 5/31/2020 8:52:00 AM

Nice one...and too distractive

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 8:24:00 PM

Thank you... especially with a vestibular disorder ;), Hugs you, xomo

Silent One

Date: 5/31/2020 6:07:00 AM

yes you are right.... but not all police are blue :D

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 7:19:00 AM

Too true. Broad brush strokes paint too many always. xomo

Jan Allison

Date: 5/31/2020 2:24:00 AM

its definitely a thin blue line at the moment Mo:-( hugs Jan xx

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 7:18:00 AM

It is scary and sad. Police used to be respected members of the community, now they are feared and perceived to be above the community; within my lifetime. It is sad, especially for the good people who wear the badge. Several members of my family worked for the RCMP. xomo

Gershon Wolf

Date: 5/30/2020 11:15:00 PM

Very clever, my friend!... Now do you have a similar senryu for doctors who let old patients die?!… Bullseye, Maureen! :) gw

Maureen Mcgreavy
Date: 5/31/2020 7:13:00 AM

Thank you my dear! Well... "change in the till" breaches that theme. ;), and OMG, just watched a documentary on the Eldarly Guardianship "system", talk about rape and pillage. Horrifying! ...let me just cash in all your assets and set you over there to die. Grrrr (sorry, hugs!) xomo