Collectivism Means Collective GUILT « The Burning Platform
This is the exact issue I have with the Catholic Church and the priest abuse scandal. Anyone who knew about it and did nothing is equally guilty. That includes Bishops, Cardinals and Popes. They are all guilty, as the coverup continues.
It is often said that one cannot “paint the whole” of the police forces with the brush of a few bad cops — like, perhaps, the one who allegedly murdered a teen in Chicago.
That may be true, right up until one of two things happens:
1. Others willfully and intentionally cover up, tamper with evidence, or otherwise obstruct an investigation. Then it is entirely fair to lump them in with the person who committed the offense and even charge them with felonies. Indeed, it is expected that you would do so.
2. Others, including voluntary associations and trade unions, back the accused in what he or she did. In that event every member of the association or union that does not immediately resign is properly painted with the same brush.
On its website, the Chicago lodge of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), has posted a bail fund appeal for the officer, Jason Van Dyke, who is accused of shooting 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times just six seconds after emerging from his patrol car on a street in Chicago on Oct. 20, 2014. An earlier link on the FOP’s front page to a GoFundMe campaign was removed after the fundraising site said it violated a policy against its use by criminal defendants.
The FOP also is paying the lawyer representing Van Dyke, Daniel Herbert, himself a former FOP member the union pays to represent Chicago cops in misconduct cases. Funding such a defense is a common practice among U.S. police unions.
‘Nuff said.
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