National Police Week 2010 Challenge

This week in America it is National Police Week. It is a time of the year when we take time out of our lives to offer thanks and recognition to the gracious souls who take up the badge to protect us from harm. It is a time when all law enforcement members are to be honored for their hard work and dedication to helping people. To celebrate those who go to work each day to make sure that our safety and well-being is intact from evil actions is an honorable thing. There are many, however, who feel that this is not so, and that the praise these fellow brothers and sisters so rightly deserve is not only uncalled for, but insulting.

As a member of the Real Life Superhero community, this makes me ashamed in the highest.

We who would claim that we are out for the help and safety of all those around us. We who by nature of our descriptor must hold ourselves to the highest levels of standards. We whose greatest allies and friends naturally reside within the bounds of law enforcement. We who are and do these things would spit upon our friends and call them unworthy makes us very small indeed.

I understand that many have encountered corruption and evil action within the bounds of so-called law. This is why many of our community are here today.I know that government is a fallacy and that the laws of men rarely align with the laws and actualities of reality. I realize that not every law enforcement member is of the shining caliber that upholds peace, order, and justice, and are often times found to be part of the problem they claim to fight.

I know these things, but it still does not change the fact that the majority of those involved with law enforcement are actually some of the best people you will ever meet. They are caring, helpful, and ultimately out for the same goals as our community. The truth, plain and simple, is that law enforcement is the best friend any RLSH could have.

Not because of the badge. Not because of the title. Not because they are expected to uphold safety and justice, but because the majority of them do. The minority of evil doers is just that: a minority. Those in our community that would claim otherwise are ignorant, and consequently arrogant.

RLSH and law enforcement both are expected to hold themselves to higher standards. It is the love and appreciation we show our fellow helpers and humans that garners us the most respect and power to change. Deny that, and you cut off any hope of bringing the help which is so desired.

So, for the duration of National Police Week I offer a challenge to everyone understand why it is the men and women of law enforcement deserve our highest love and appreciation. You may disagree with some of them, and you may dislike the system as deeply as I do, and you may even have desires to strike down the system of law in favor of a more radical and positive change of your own.

But when someone lays their life on the line for you, you show thanks. And mistake me not, this happens every day without you realizing it. This year 63 law enforcement members laid down their life for your continued path to freedom, understanding, and love. That is a debt you can never repay.

But you can start by being thankful.


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The link to my challenge on therlsh.net: http://www.therlsh.net/public-forum-f8/police-week-t3516.htm

Educate yourselves, my friends. Make the men and women who help and care for you proud that you wish to do the same for them.