The police dog who didn’t bark for democracy, but against medical marijuana

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One of the most famous Sherlock Holmes secrets was solved by keeping a dog from barking. Sometimes silence says more than we want to know, and that is certainly the case with the January 6th uprising.

On August 2, two other members of the Capitol Police committed suicide. It’s not difficult to understand their depression, especially since most Republicans in both chambers have defended their attackers and attacked their defenders.

The former president, who cheered the mobs who attacked the police, even slandered the officials who testified about the riot, calling them the vulgar term for the part of the female anatomy that he bragged about that he liked to attack.

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SEE: Trump finally found some “pussies” he doesn’t want to grab: DC’s Capitol Police

Where are their usual defenders? The police unions in particular? As the daily beastreported, that was the largest and loudest police union in America. Then came January 6th.

“Michael Fanone, one of the many police officers who fought off rioters at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, said he expected the country’s largest police union, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), to defend him vigorously and colleagues. The police officers who stared at violent pro-Trump mobs that day not only had to deal with their own physical and emotional injuries, but also endured criticism from Republican lawmakers, enemy civilians, and even efforts by the former president to demean the seriousness of the January uprising. But in an interview on CNN …

Fanone – fresh from his testimony to Congress … about his experience at the Capitol – said he hadn’t received any contact from the union immediately after Jan. 6, a police officer said he didn’t speak to FOP until six months after the uprising – President Patrick Yoes to express concern about the lack of support from the union.

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“‘I’ll be honest with you’ he told CNN, ‘I was not particularly impressed by this conversation. I was extremely disappointed. ‘

“One of the things Fanone was visibly pissed off about was what he called the FOP’s failure to organize institutional support for the officers defending the Capitol. This is a group that represents over 300,000 civil servants across the country and has more than 100,000 followers on social media. “

For real. When the (former) President of Law and Order and the Republican Party attack the police, the police unions muttered and the Liberal Democrats defend them. Has the world been turned upside down? Or is that part of something that has always been in sight?

Last August, the New York City Police Union supported Trump for re-election as president.

SEE: The Inevitable Trump-Police-Union Synthesis

Trump got just 22.6% of the vote in his hometown, even with police union support during a crime spree. Of course, as well as ignoring the people, the police ignored the fact that Trump was being investigated by New York and federal investigators.

And then there was that Trump University scam. On November 18, 2016, it was reported that Trump agreed to pay $ 25 million to settle the two class actions and the New York lawsuit. The settlement was reached 10 days before the scheduled class action lawsuit in San Diego. “

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Trump too paid a $ 2 million fine for fraud with his Donald J. Trump Foundation.

SEE: Donald J. Trump Pays Court Ordered $ 2M for Illegal Use of Trump Foundation Funds

So, a man who has paid millions of dollars in fines for fraud and is under both state and federal investigations has been endorsed by the local “law enforcement union” ??

This is not a hidden conspiracy. Everything happens “in sight”. The groups that support Trump’s insurrection are also against marijuana reform, for both medical and recreational purposes, despite the overwhelming majority of the American people’s support for both.

SEE: Trump’s new chief of staff even turned down CBD for desperately ill children and medical marijuana for disabled veterinarians

ALSO: Police and prison guards are fighting marijuana legalization in California

AND: A reform of the police unions would be good for cannabis policy

So let’s be very clear. Supporters of the uprising are also against the marijuana reform. There is an alliance between the Trump insurgents, the police unions and the prohibitionist Deep State.

Stop the press! (I’ve always wanted to say that.) This only in …The police union hits over a Chicago police officer who has been charged with rioting in the U.S. Capitol.

I rest my case!

Richard Cowan is a former NORML National Director and author of About The Roles Of Stars In The CBD Industry.