“Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.“
If I were to describe to you a social event which dictated a historical need for tens of thousands of labor hours from the Police, always ended with hundreds of arrests, was viewed as dangerous by the local citizenry, and which needed so much law enforcement for safety that private citizens willingly paid for the cops, complete strangers, to stay at their homes just so they could feel safe; You’d probably think I was crazy right?
What if we told you in addition to the above, in less than a 20 block radius the police were going to:
- Install 18 continually monitored live CCTV cameras 24/7
- Put 600 police officers in that same area – borrowing 200 from other towns.
- Pre-install automatic license plate readers connected to Homeland Security.
- Erect two dozen police staffed watchtowers.
- Spend $140,000 to “rent” tanks and light armored vehicles with FLIR.
- In total spend around $1,800,000.00 not including overtime for 4 days.
Consider this year’s event:
It has yet to really start, and yet – Police arrested 51 people [so far] between 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday afternoon.
Additionally – The police department has on loan a $140,000 all-terrain vehicle used in the military. The vehicle can use Forward Looking Infra Red (FLIR) to detect body heat nearly a mile away.
I mean what local government would keep subjecting themselves to the risks associated with allowing such a festival to take place year after year, knowing full well the same historical outcome would be repeated? Why would they put themselves, and by consequence their community, through such intentional anxiety? (more…)