Tony Cornish gains a lot of favor with Minnesota gun owners for being pro-gun rights. However, he’s also a ruthless statist and apologist for rampant abuses of power by police. Two days ago he submitted a letter to the editor to the Star Tribune that offers tips on how us lowly peasant can survive police encounters. Let’s take a look at his tips and translate them into laymen’s terms:
Lately, some advocacy groups have been asking what we can do to “reduce the use of force by police.” Well …
1) Don’t be a thug and lead a life of crime so that you come into frequent contact with police.
So… don’t be a cop?
2) Don’t rob people, don’t use or sell drugs, and don’t beat up your significant other.
Again, don’t be a cop?
3) Don’t hang out on the street after 2 a.m. Go home.
Don’t work night shifts.
4) Don’t make furtive movements or keep your hands in your pockets if told to take them out.
Shut up, slave, and do what the aggressive man who is showing intent to cause you harm demands you to do!
5) Don’t flap your jaws when the police arrive. Don’t disobey the requests of the police at the time. If you think you are wrongfully treated, make the complaint later.
Again, shut up, slave. If you think you’re being abused you should take it! You can file a complaint later, if you survive.
6) Don’t use the excuse of a lack of a job or education for why you assault, rob or kill.
Instead become a cop so you have the excuse of having a job to assault, rob, and kill!
Tips one and two seem to disagree with tip six. The first two advise you to not live a light of thuggery, theft, and violence, which means you should avoid becoming a law enforcer. But then tip six advises you to have a job that allows you to commit assault, robbery, and murder, which is what law enforcers do. Tip three is bizarre since it’s basically a variation of blaming a woman’s clothing choice for her being raped. The only difference is he’s blaming a person’s work shift for being harassed or assault by the police. I also find the other two tips alarming because they advise you to submit to and cooperate with your abuser.
It probably won’t surprise any of you that Tony Cornish is a former police officer. It also shouldn’t surprise anybody that a man who sought a career choice that gave him power over others sought another career choice that gave him power over others. As you can probably tell from his letter he really enjoys being in a position of power. I wonder how he would feel if he was on the receiving end of the State’s truncheon instead of the giving end.
I see one of these “Just obey the cop(s) and you won’t get hurt” columns every few months or so. The author is always a cop, and even absent other confirmation, could be identified as such by the cop-attitude oozing from every word. Never addressed are the incidents that occur daily in which cooperating with cops did NOT protect an honest citizen from harm. Never addressed is the appropriateness of one group of people lording it over another in a nation self-defined as “land of the free”. They have a serious comeuppance coming.