Police State Desperation – Texas Sheriff Proclaims “Authority Comes from God”

Guest Post by Michael Krieger 

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Don’t mess with Texas. Particularly not with Texas cops, who according to Hunt County sheriff Randy Meeks, get their authority from God.

Yes, Mr. Meeks was outraged at critics who pointed to a videotaped beating of a pregnant woman by one of his deputies. Like Goldman Sachs, his work is God’s work, or so he claims. So shut up and take it you stupid plebs.

From Raw Story:

A Texas sheriff said police critics should shut up because he believes law enforcement officers are granted their authority by God.

Randy Meeks, the Hunt County sheriff, published a print-only guest editorial in the local Herald-Banner, citing Bible verses to argue that police officers are tasked with enforcing law and order for a godly nation, reported blogger Brett Sanders.

The blogger posts screen shots from the guest editorial, which was published just days aftergrand jury cleared one of Meeks’ deputies in the videotaped beating of a pregnant Air Force veteran during the investigation of a domestic dispute.

“Due to recent events, I can no longer be silent concerning what our country allows,” Meeks wrote. “It is amazing to me that the criminals who break into our homes and steal from us, those who sell drugs to our children, those who abuse innocent and defenseless children, those who rape our wives and daughters, those who commit cold-blooded murders are all innocent until proven guilty.”

Recent events. Ok. Are you referring to your deputing beating up a pregnant veteran, or the Massachusetts officer who recently lied about being shot at to cover up a car crash. In fact, the officer shot up his own car. From CNN:

A police officer lied when he said somebody shot at his patrol car, causing it to crash and catch fire, said Millis, Massachusetts, police Sgt. William Dwyer on Thursday.

“We have determined that the officer’s story was fabricated,” Dwyer said. “Specifically that he fired shots at his own cruiser as part of a plan to concoct a story that he was fired upon.”

Now back to Mr. Meeks….

“Yet, law enforcement officers are found guilty as soon as it ‘appears’ that the officer has done something wrong,” the sheriff added. “Way before the whole incident can be reviewed and the TRUTH obtained, that officer is found guilty and nobody cares what the facts are. This folks, is a travesty!”

He writes: “Yet, law enforcement officers are found guilty as soon as it ‘appears’ that the officer has done something wrong.” Really? Please provide some data to back this up. Oh, you can’t, well let me help you.

Recall the following article from Five Thirty Eight, which explains how grand juries almost always indict, except when it’s a police officer. Here’s the truth:

Former New York state Chief Judge Sol Wachtler famously remarked that a prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to “indict a ham sandwich.” The data suggests he was barely exaggerating: According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. attorneys prosecuted 162,000 federal cases in 2010, the most recent year for which we have data. Grand juries declined to return an indictment in 11 of them.

Cases involving police shootings, however, appear to be an exception. As my colleague Reuben Fischer-Baum has written, we don’t have good data on officer-involved killings. But newspaperaccounts suggestgrand juries frequently decline to indict law-enforcement officials. A recent Houston Chronicle investigation found that “police have been nearly immune from criminal charges in shootings” in Houston and other large cities in recent years. In Harris County, Texas, for example, grand juries haven’t indicted a Houston police officer since 2004; in Dallas, grand juries reviewed 81 shootings between 2008 and 2012 and returned just one indictment. Separate research by Bowling Green State University criminologist Philip Stinson has found that officers are rarely charged in on-duty killings, although it didn’t look at grand jury indictments specifically.

Back to Meeks…

Meeks thanked local defense attorneys — with the exception of one unnamed attorney and her investigator — “who chose not to go against your local officials,” and he thanked most local media for their professionalism and every single law enforcement officer for continuing to do their jobs in the face of criticism.

Ah, so he must be a recent graduate of the Larry Summers school of policing, you know where “insiders don’t criticize other insiders”?

“What has our country come to?” he continued. “When will we wake up to the fact that a country established ‘under God’ is now a Godless nation. People evidently don’t want law and order. They want to kill, threaten and to harm the very officers who are in place to protect them.”

People don’t want law and order? No, people don’t want this:

57-Year-Old Michigan Man Beaten to a Bloody Pulp by Police Officer Known as “RoboCop” for Running a Red Light

Innocent Army Veteran Framed by Louisiana Police and Prosectors Barely Escapes Jail Due to Cellphone Video

Video of the Day – Watch as 8 Police Officers Fire 46 Shots and Kill a Homeless Man in Broad Daylight

Caught on Video – LAPD Guns Down Homeless Man in Broad Daylight

Video of the Day – This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops

And yes, I could go on.

Now for the most remarkable part of the whole idiotic column. He says law enforcement’s authority comes from God.

“Guess where that authority comes from to law enforcement? It comes from God,” Meeks wrote. “Read Romans 13:1 in the Bible. And while you are at it, you folks in Ferguson, Baltimore, Arlington and here, take a Gander at Romans 13:2.”

Ok, let’s read it…

The first verse, according to the New Living Translation, reads: “Everyone must submit to governing authorities. For all authority comes from God, and those in positions of authority have been placed there by God.”

I think the Founding Fathers would have a little something to say about that. If they believed it, there never would have been an American Revolution in the first place.

The following verse, according to the same translation, warns: “So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.”

 

Exactly. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, etc are domestic terrorists. God’s vessel on earth, Randy Meeks, says so.

The only question left is…If push comes to shove, who really has God’s ear?

Him:

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or Him:

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In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Just give all the police a month off for vacation and let the people prove how well behaved and law abiding they are.

Just think, a whole month with no police shootings, harassment, or arrests, a virtual paradise would be produced.

Irish
Irish

Whatever authority he may possess must be used justly, and that’s not happening now. When those with authority abide by one set of rules while the rest are held to another, is it any wonder why there would be resentment – especially when the authorities can kill indiscriminately and are not held accountable?

The study about the cops not being indicted for shooting people is telling. I think it’s analogous to why no one testifies against the mafia. If you cross them, you’ll be subject to retribution. That’s not authority – that’s tyranny.

I’m sure I’ll get some thumbs down for saying this, but I understand why cops get defensive. They deal with the nasty elements of society on a daily basis that most folks never witness, nor would they ever want to. They wade through Hell on earth – drugs, child abuse and neglect, suicides, murders, rapes, domestic violence, fights, gang-related attacks, drunkenness, mentally ill folks that others can’t or don’t want to deal with, kidnapping, he-said/she-said arguments, armed criminals with no conscience who would gladly kill them, and many of these situations are with people who don’t speak English, making communication during stressful situations difficult. There aren’t too many professions outside of the military where the next daily task could be lethal – where someone is intentionally trying to kill you. The stress involved would likely make the group close ranks and defend one another.

Because of this unique amount of stress, I think the people within the profession need to have an extremely high level of emotional intelligence and patience to cope with this type of work. I doubt there are enough qualified candidates, however. Instead, we’re getting steriod-infused power trippers looking to kick some ass behind a badge that grants them legal immunity to get away with criminal acts.

sensetti
sensetti

Don’t mess with Texas. Particularly not with Texas cops, who according to Hunt County sheriff Randy Meeks, get their authority from God.

Everyone knows that statement is true. There are a few things you just don’t “Fuck With” two of them are JC and Texas!!

Stucky

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(DETROIT) They call it “The Bear.” The Detroit Police Department’s new bigger, badder and better SWAT vehicle is able to hold more team members, set perimeters for police and assist in search and rescue operations.

“When we have officer or citizens pinned down, The Bear provides that adequate coverage because of its height,” explained Detroit Police Commander Elvin Barren. “The technology that’s on The Bear — we have cameras on there, we have a ram that can breach down doors and fences.”

Barren told WWJ Newsradio 950’s Mike Campbell it’s an important piece of equipment that gives the force “a tactical advantage” in barricaded gunman situations.

“We’re excited about The Bear!” Barren said.

“Chief (James) Craig, when he came in from LA, he realized we did not have a Bear. He did have one out in LA, and said we’re gonna get you a Bear…And he did deliver on that and provide out SWAT team with a Bear.”

The vehicle cost about $700,000, according to police, and was paid for with forfeiture funds.

kokoda
kokoda

Stucky….a correction to your post.

“…and was paid for with theft by police from stopping average citizens and stealing any cash on their person.

kokoda
kokoda

Irish…..Agree with a lot you state, BUT any decent police officer doesn’t shoot someone in the back that doesn’t have a weapon, just running away.; same with beating someone to death that posed no threat to any police officer(s); same with gunning down a homeless guy that posed no threat.

I would support the police if the decent cops (where are they?) wouldn’t lie to defend another cop in an unjust killing, beating, or brutality.
This doesn’t happen, so they are CopFucks.

Billy
Billy

Irish,

“Law Enforcement” as a dangerous profession? Doesn’t even crack the Top 10. Most cops die from crashing their own patrol cars – not from shootouts with Bad Guys.

I believe what we are seeing is the final fracturing of the US in realtime. Cops amscray Sumdood – just execute him – or dish out some epic beatdown of a citizen. Couple days later, we see some other random Sumdood – most likely a Dindoo – assassinate a cop as payback. Couple days later? Cops amscray another citizen as payback for the payback…

This is the kind of 3rd world shit we used to condemn as a general rule. We were supposed to be better than that…

A criminal is a criminal because he chose to be one.

A “Law Enforcement” officer is invested with a tremendous amount of authority and power – and those who choose to abuse that power or seek it for the sake of having power – are the worst sort of scum.

I’ll take a straight-up criminal over some “Law Enforcement” goon any day. The criminal just wants my shit. The Government goon wants my subjugation – it’s not enough they take my shit, they want me to kneel, to submit, and to be seen kneeling and submitting… which is why if one of us poor proles dares flex our rights, we’re put down – either shot and killed, given a beatdown as a lesson, or thrown in prison for years… Innocence be damned. We dare stand up against the Almighty State, then we’re publicly punished.. or worse.

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Irish
Irish

Kokoda,

I completely agree with you – each of those cases is an example of a bully hiding behind a badge to get away with murder. Toss their asses out of the force, take away their precious pensions and prosecute them.

I was trying to point out that in areas of true poverty and crime and lawlessness, police need to possess intelligence, patience and courage rather than relying on brute force and a code of silence to do the job. We seem to be hearing mainly about the goons in the news. I would think it’s time for those who take their oath to protect and serve seriously to kick out some of the shit-kickers looking to hurt people for fun.

Irish
Irish

Billy,

I wouldn’t want to be a cop in Chicago or Baltimore or St. Louis or a dozens of other inner cities. The yokels pushing paper in sleepy little towns definitely don’t have dangerous jobs, I agree. I also very much agree with your paragraph about the responsibilities law enforcement have. That’s the crux of the problem – too many goons and not enough men of integrity who will stand up to them. It seems to be a theme in our country now. National politics, education, healthcare, local government all seem to be in the hands of the power-hungry megalomaniacs.

IndenturedServant

Well fuck it……….let Mr. Fatfuk, Constitutionally deficient Sheriff collect his paycheck and bennies from God too!

We’re surrounded by morans. Best to dodge as many of them as you can.

Homer
Homer

If there is a lack of respect for peace officers, it just didn’t happen out of the blue. There is a long list of abusive behavior by peace officers. I know there are good cops out there doing a proper job, and I support them and thank them.

Most don’t know that police work is a personality changing job and demanding on their family life. It’s not like going to work at a factory making wigits. They’re many time dealing with the dregs of society on a daily basis. That doesn’t happen working in a factory. It does affect them.

Good cops should be supported and bad cops culled. Respect is earned not summarily given. If the cops are loosing respect from the public, there is something wrong in how they’re doing their job.

Cops should know that they can’t do their jobs with out the support of the people. They are tyrants, without that support. They can’t be a secret cabal, a KGB, but open and open to criticism or the discord between the police and the citizenry will become worse.

Vic
Vic

Apparently, this sheriff doesn’t know the difference between “do not rebel,” as stated in scripture, and seeking justice.

Anonymous
Anonymous

“So anyone who rebels against authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and they will be punished.”

So . . . since the ultimate ‘governing authorities’ in the US are the very People themselves, when the agents of those governing authorities – the elected government and its various and sundry minions – act outside the Constitutional strictures imposed on them by the governing authorities, they should and must be punished?

I suspect that analytical thinking is not the Sheriff’s best developed talent.

Stucky

Soooo ….. being a copfuk is dangerous, eh?

I don’t think so!!

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Westcoaster
Westcoaster

I grew up in an area where the Sheriff would probably have given an interview with similar statements. Lots of Klan, John Birchers galore. Surprising that I survived.

B
B

This entire problem is simply due to the inability of the police to police their own. They are now reaping the whirlwind. Increasing number of cop killings will happen. The police have no one but themselves to blame

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