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

[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

Originally Posted by alternative-answer

If you are a police officer, army personnel or part of the ever growing band of civillian force, would you turn on your fellow man and hurt, maim, injure, imprison and shoot them? Remember the Nazi's, remember the ghetto's
http://www.historama.com/online-reso...ttoPolice1.jpg this is similar to the growing number of PCSO's in the UK a civilian force, http://www.hampshire.police.uk/NR/rd.../0/PCSOMan.jpg notice any similarities? Identified with blue banding? and now home secetary wants to give more power to civilian enforcement officers, such a parking patrols, council officials etc http://britishpolitics.wordpress.com/tag/jacqui-smith/