CHP officer slain in '67 honored

This healthy disobedience deals with that fact that "people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice."

Is that clear enough? All we hear is "law & order" -- as if it came down from God. "Might is right...," as Walther said, and justice there is none. We became True Believers, but abandoned our duties as bona fide citizens. We just "go with teh flow...," it's so much easier. And "Easy Does It!" as we had been told.

Why worry, if we can be happy? The Eloi "thought" that too. Or did you forget about Wells' "Time Machine"? Are we all "grounded" now, incapable of expressing our true feelings? We became more "obedient" than the Germans under Adolf were. And we're still looking at ourselves as "proud Americans"? We even believed the cockamamie story about Oswald, and also the tall tale about Sirhan.

To SayYouDont wrote:

Hello, my Friend!
How about giving them some support,
while they are stil alive?
In addition, not all defenders of our precious freedoms work for the police departments. There are dedicated volunteers all over.
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To Civil Disobedience wrote:

This healthy disobedience deals with that fact that "people should not permit governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people have a duty to avoid allowing such acquiescence to enable the government to make them the agents of injustice."
Is that clear enough? All we hear is "law & order" -- as if it came down from God. "Might is right...," as Walther said, and justice there is none. We became True Believers, but abandoned our duties as bona fide citizens. We just "go with teh flow...," it's so much easier. And "Easy Does It!" as we had been told.
Why worry, if we can be happy? The Eloi "thought" that too. Or did you forget about Wells' "Time Machine"? Are we all "grounded" now, incapable of expressing our true feelings? We became more "obedient" than the Germans under Adolf were. And we're still looking at ourselves as "proud Americans"? We even believed the cockamamie story about Oswald, and also the tall tale about Sirhan.
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To secure the rights to life, liberty and property, governments are instituted among men and derive their just rights from the consent of the governed. You cannot deny that concept still lives in our government and the legal documents that define it, although such thinking as in your post lives and has lived throughout our history.

slug wrote:

<quoted text>To secure the rights to life, liberty and property, governments are instituted among men and derive their just rights from the consent of the governed. You cannot deny that concept still lives in our government and the legal documents that define it, although such thinking as in your post lives and has lived throughout our history.

I see you are diplomatic. But I agree. I wish our always too busy folks would spend more time reading and studying the Constitution.

And yes, it's still the base to build on. Or to rebuild. "I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good," said Martin Luther King. "No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest."

"Thoreau was a great writer, philosopher, poet, and withal a most practical man, that is, he taught nothing he was not prepared to practice in himself. He was one of the greatest and most moral men America has produced," said Mahatma Gandhi [1907]. "At the time of the abolition of slavery movement, he wrote his famous essay," and he "went to gaol for the sake of his principles and suffering humanity."

"His essay has, therefore, been sanctified by suffering. Moreover, it is written for all time. Its incisive logic is unanswerable."

"An individual’s first duty is to live his life as his principles
demand," said Thoreau, and why did we get off track?

Gladiator of Torrance wrote:

Out of tragedy comes a poignant moving story of an officer who will be remembered with honor.

Of course, and Officer Andrews grew up in a law enforcement family, "with his father and brother serving in the Compton police force, and Andrews himself worked in the Compton Police Department and was on patrol with the CHP for nine years before he was killed."

"Tony Rios, 83, and Keith Alber, 75 - friends and fellow officers of Andrews who both served as pallbearers at his funeral - sat in the front row at the ceremony.'It's a tribute to my friend, to my fellow officer by the state of California,' Rios said.'To see his name up there, that's the greatest thing that I can say today. He was my dear friend.'"

"Rios and Alber were two of the last people to see Andrews alive. At the start of their shift on that fateful day, Alber wrote on the log that officers were on the lookout for an armed individual involved in robbery and kidnapping. Andrews wrote the license plate number from the report onto his hand."

And then it happened.

"The deserved Dedication is for The Officer. IF the Andrews were never contacted in the 15 years process their beef would be with the bureaucrats not the Beavers," said our alert reader in Riverside. "To Karl: Radio dead spots would have been well known and could have been used to ambush a lone officer who knew too much."

Of course he did, at a very crucial time: just before Robert was assassinated [re: Sirhan], the Rotters took over [Alpine Village], our book was published [Whittier: Beacon Press, 1968], and "our" Arnie hopped into that plane, in London. We had to forget "was einmal war," a new world was being created.

Ten years later John Bogert arrived ["Daily Breeze"], and Jim Allen in San Pedro [Random Lengths]. The "Torrance Herald" went out of business in 1969.

Kevin Cody's paper, the "Easy Reader" [Hermosa Beach], was already founded in 1970. It's a weekly, delivered to homes in the Beach Cities, now with a circulation of about 57,000, "offering local news and extensive entertainment listings." Easy Reader, Inc. also publishes two monthly magazines: the "Peninsula People," and "Beach." and yes, in the early 1980s, the "Easy Reader" was known for its in-depth coverage of the infamous McMartin "preschool trial."

Yes, we have been "entertained," while California was being undermined. Like Vienna, back in 1683. There we had some alert bakers, what do we have now?



Re: "Man made false claim to be slain CHP officer's nephew at ceremony" by John Guenther.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_16504520
"CHP officer slain in '67 honored" [John Guenther]: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_16472467
"Memorials set for crash victims" [Larry Altman]: http://www.dailybreeze.com/ci_16718380

I knew Mr. Andrews personally. Our families went on many trips together when I was a kid. He was a very nice guy. The criminal that killed him deserved the death penalty.