I’m really struggling to find the connecting thread between this article and your weird statutory story.

Enterprise.

Gregtech: we looked at all the wild stuff being done by other mods and thought “yes but what if tedium as well?”

Best and simplest answer is that technically they’re still considered law enforcement. Nearly everything they’re doing is constitutionally illegal, but only the courts have the right to determine that.

If we start threatening police with guns, every single nook and cranny of our legal system justifies the police murdering us. Maybe some cops would get paid leave for a few weeks, or possibly even lose their badges, but that’s about it.

And then they’ll use it to justify an even more inflated budget for ICE, and everything will get exponentially worse.

There is a pretty famous Mitch Hedburg bit about that same exact thing. People used to quote his jokes a lot online. I wonder if, instead of a poem, that was what you read.

Crunchy peanut butter shouldn’t exist. It’s lazy, unfinished peanut butter. At the very least, it should cost less. Why are we paying the same price for a job half finished?