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I am thrilled to hear that the National FOP is endorsing McCain and Palin.  We need to work so hard this year to make sure that these two end up in the Whitehouse!!!  Please keep us informed on anything we can do to help with support!!  THanks!!

Go to the McCcain web site check the volunteer area for your state. I am lucky my local one is near where I live

NObama

Go McCain

Well Git R Done!!!!

good choice

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Great choice Mccain is the one for the job.

A Veteran and true American.....I vote Mccain

McCain has my vote

I would have been disapointed if it had been otherwise.

They had my vote as well.. Not a big Biden fan, and even less of Obama.. Great choice..!!!!

Great choice for the National FOP to endorse McCain, that truely was their only clear choice.  One would have to wonder if they supported Nobama after the PORTA-POTTY-GATE in Washington State, how many memebers would have resigned, besides me.

Good!

Well I concur with that

While I'm perfectly aware of the possibility of an LEO being injured or killed while in the performance of his duty. But isn't it a stretch to compare the danger an LEO faces when executing a warrant on a some crack-wh**re's pimp with the people who attempt to capture/kill Mullah Omar? In his territory, at his compound, in a town full of his supporters? Or even just those that patrol the streets of Fallujah? When I look at the number of LEOs killed since alcohol prohibition's black-market gave rise to  "La Cosa Nostra" then compare it to the totals from any single war...this one included...there just isn't any comparison to be made. Domestic law-enforcement is simply not anywhere near as dangerous as actual soldiering. Heck, crab fishermen die on the job at a rate far higher the LEOs. Just joining the police force in Baghdad is a life-or-death practice! The Mahdi Army, or AQ in Iraq regularly sends car-bombers around to the new recruiting center so they can blow up anyone who hasn't managed to get there early enough to not to be among the overflow that inevitably spills outside the security perimeter .

And yet I see lines from Canterbury saying “Like our members, he ( McCain ) sees issues through the eyes of someone that has been on the front lines. That is exactly the kind of perspective, and the kind of leadership, that we need in the White House".

Well.... Maybe that's what you want in the WH, but that's not the perspective that should be inculcated in LEO's.

I can't help but think it's partially a result of a pissing match between county sheriffs to see who can assemble the most fearsome collection of military hardware. Seems that the Pentagon started giving it away back in the 80s after Cheney and pals managed to dismantle the Posse Comitatus laws. Hey! So what if Posse Comitatus was enacted and served as a cornerstone of America's democracy?

Not anymore.  And since LEO's aren't Army, Navy or Air Force, that means they too are now legal targets of the national military. And all thanks to the tearing up of Posse Comitatus by the same guys who gave us the WMDs charade. What is it with Cheney and his thing with militarizing every aspect of the States? Owns a lot of military related stocks. But you'd think there'd be a point beyond which nobody could go and still be able to live with themselves. But then again, maybe not?

But hey! It is good for business doncha know.... 300,000 LEOs breathing down their COs neck, trying to get him to take the Pentagon's hand-me-downs. And now we see theyr'e under constant pressure to buy the latest products that companies like Taser International carry. And statements like Canterbury's fit right into the rest of the the ads trying to get the rank and file convinced that they absolutely must have their products. Yup! Right from the moment they leave the station, no matter what, where, or who they're arresting, they think they're in a war zone.  Say it ain't so, Chuck! Please? <g>

Anyhow. Whatever the reason, it's all only a recent development. There's been a huge change in the way LEOs see and  conduct their job compared to only a couple decades ago.

So what's going on? Why all the fear all the sudden? Why the military hardware? Why ther bunker mentality?