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The police are beholden to their community. They're civilians who owe no loyalty to military leaders.

Some Terry Pratchett scribblings:

Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city' That's what policeman means: 'a man for the city'. The word 'polite' comes from 'polis', too. It used to mean the proper behaviour from someone living in a city.

t always embarrassed Samuel Vimes when civilians tried to speak to him in what they thought was “policeman.” If it came to that, he hated thinking of them as civilians. What was a policeman, if not a civilian with a uniform and a badge? But they tended to use the term these days as a way of describing people who were not policemen. It was a dangerous habit: once policemen stopped being civilians the only other thing they could be was soldiers.

No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population.  The trick is not to let them realize that.

The Axiom 'Honest men have nothing to fear from the police' is currently under review by the Axioms Review Board. 

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Watched the sportsbowl yesterday. ⠀ Football needs a Harlem Globetrotters. ⠀ #SuperBowl2018 ⠀ #HarlemGlobetrotters ⠀ #Futurama

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Shaolin ChipMonk practicing his iron paw technique. ⠀ #CuteAnimals ⠀ #SquirrelAppreciationDay #squirrelappreciationdaypawty

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Got a few of these in Canada. I don't know why they're so hard to find here. Or why the packaging still says new ages later.⠀ #kitkat

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Huh. ⠀ The most powerful search engine out there can't find a single good math joke.

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These are clearly the same guys. So which is it? Goblins or Orcs?? YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS @WizardsOfTheCoast⠀ #MagicTheGathering ⠀ #geekstuff

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Apparently we're back to the original arbitrary number of characters. 😒

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After leaving it for... a few years more than I should have I finally got my eyes checked. My astigmatism is gone and my vision has improved.⠀ Glad to have some #GoodNews

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Tried archery tag for the first time recently. It was great. I might've finally found a team sport I like. I won the dog eat dog round⠀ #GameOfFoam⠀ #ArcheryGames⠀ #Archery⠀ #Archerytag⠀ #itsahit⠀ #combatarchery⠀ #fun⠀ #Calgary⠀ #CloserToARealBowThanMostModernHuntingBows #UnpopularOpinion

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Every so often I'll see a casting notice asking applicants to have a certain number of followers and I'm afraid I'll roll my eyes too hard and injure myself. ⠀ #ActorProblems

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Well played googly-eye vandal. Well played. ⠀ #funnysigns

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The airports are using this new logo for... connections? Looks like automated drone prisoner escort to me. ⠀ #Airport ⠀ #tsa

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Red neck norcal surprised me when I moved near modesto. "Watch out fer them queers" someone at the gym told me when I mentioned I was moving to SF.⠀ When I shot a short in Auburn I saw pickups flying confed flags. Not something I'd expected in California.⠀ #NewCalifornia⠀ #OldStupid

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There are many ways to tell a story.

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How long until he brings back lead in paint and gasoline? Lead in his great brain is probably what he owes his stability and genius to. ⠀ #trump

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Movies based on video games are the worst. They are getting ridiculously numerous and they are, as far as I've seen, universally terrible.