The Blue Wall of Silence Is Starting to Crack

[Cow Poke]

OK sure, but what about Police Unions?

Yes

[Cow Poke]

Which words in the quote you cited and given [again] below are too difficult for you to understand?

You are the one who introduced an archaic meaning for a word. I just gave you another word that also has an archaic meaning in order to balance things out.

And I agree with most of those points made by Egan and yourself, with reservations as to power being handed to command and/or local representatives/politicians without any independent oversight.

I would not curtail the unions but I would prefer to see a national union established for all police officers, rather than, as seems to be the present case, a rather piece-meal collection of local groups most of which have no affiliation with any larger organisation.

I believe you have mistaken Sparko for me.

[Cow Poke]

Is that an appeal for sympathy?

You had no cause to request me to "dial down the tone" merely because I politely thanked rogue06 for his comments.

You need to stop using the tactic of do as I say not as I do. It gives the impression you are a hypocrite.

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[Sparko]

Sure. Unions are bad for police departments.

Clear enough? Pretty much what I've been saying throughout this entire thread.

OK sure, but what about Police Unions?

[Cow Poke]

Can you clarify your position?

Sure. Unions are bad for police departments.

Clear enough? Pretty much what I've been saying throughout this entire thread.

[rogue06]

I hear ye! I reckon some of them thar furriners seem to be gettin' a might too big fer their britches, tryin' to tell us how to speak. They'n might needs to study up on our lingo.

True dat.

[Sparko]

Ain't no use in throwing out a perfectly good word that ain't done nobody no harm.

I hear ye! I reckon some of them thar furriners seem to be gettin' a might too big fer their britches, tryin' to tell us how to speak. They'n might needs to study up on our lingo.

[rogue06]

I reckon! Americans tend to do that. Especially southerners. Like using "yonder" to mean "over there" - I read that a lot of the American southern dialect vocabulary came straight from Ye Olde Elizabethan Early Modern English.

Ain't no use in throwing out a perfectly good word that ain't done nobody no harm.

[Gondwanaland]

[SIZE=14px][FONT=Calibri] A national union to which all police officers had the right to join would prevent these various unions operating [even though of those present organisations have members across the nation]

You..... you do realize that many non-police unions with the organized crime influences, etc., are.... national unions, right? Or even international ones that cover the continent...... right? Like...?????

What do you think making it a national union here for police will do, other than give an even easier network for organized crime to get its tendrils into?????

[Sparko]

That archaic usage is not uncommon around these parts. If you didn't keep nit-picking over verbification that nobody but you seems to have any trouble with (or more likely that you see as a gotcha opportunity), conversations would be increasingly fruitful.

I reckon! Americans tend to do that. Especially southerners. Like using "yonder" to mean "over there" - I read that a lot of the American southern dialect vocabulary came straight from Ye Olde Elizabethan Early Modern English.

[rogue06]

Which words in the quote you cited and given [again] below are too difficult for you to understand?

You are the one who introduced an archaic meaning for a word. I just gave you another word that also has an archaic meaning in order to balance things out.

And I agree with most of those points made by Egan and yourself, with reservations as to power being handed to command and/or local representatives/politicians without any independent oversight.

I would not curtail the unions but I would prefer to see a national union established for all police officers, rather than, as seems to be the present case, a rather piece-meal collection of local groups most of which have no affiliation with any larger organisation.

That archaic usage is not uncommon around these parts. If you didn't keep nit-picking over verbification that nobody but you seems to have any trouble with (or more likely that you see as a gotcha opportunity), conversations would be increasingly fruitful.

[Sparko]

Which words in the quote you cited and given [again] below are too difficult for you to understand?

You are the one who introduced an archaic meaning for a word. I just gave you another word that also has an archaic meaning in order to balance things out.

And I agree with most of those points made by Egan and yourself, with reservations as to power being handed to command and/or local representatives/politicians without any independent oversight.

I would not curtail the unions but I would prefer to see a national union established for all police officers, rather than, as seems to be the present case, a rather piece-meal collection of local groups most of which have no affiliation with any larger organisation.

Please stop the constractulation. That was CP who used an 'archaic' meaning, not I.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

We could actually have decent conversations if you didn't constantly vultrate and peniopate your ousiclectic vocabulary.

Which words in the quote you cited and given [again] below are too difficult for you to understand?

You are the one who introduced an archaic meaning for a word. I just gave you another word that also has an archaic meaning in order to balance things out.

And I agree with most of those points made by Egan and yourself, with reservations as to power being handed to command and/or local representatives/politicians without any independent oversight.

I would not curtail the unions but I would prefer to see a national union established for all police officers, rather than, as seems to be the present case, a rather piece-meal collection of local groups most of which have no affiliation with any larger organisation.

[Sparko]

You are the one who introduced an archaic meaning for a word. I just gave you another word that also has an archaic meaning in order to balance things out.

And I agree with most of those points made by Egan and yourself, with reservations as to power being handed to command and/or local representatives/politicians without any independent oversight.

I would not curtail the unions but I would prefer to see a national union established for all police officers, rather than, as seems to be the present case, a rather piece-meal collection of local groups most of which have no affiliation with any larger organisation.

We could actually have decent conversations if you didn't constantly vultrate and peniopate your ousiclectic vocabulary.

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Can you clarify your position?


Post # 288

Get rid of the unions - MUCH easier to deal with corruption, as your OP explains.

Post # 363

My position is that they should be curtailed, reined in. I'm not proposing they be totally abolished.

And now Post # 377

Get rid of the PROBLEM unions, which pretty much is every one in big city police departments.

Which are you going for?