Re: [OM] Flying high

[John Hudson]

> But, in the USA, we give far too many "enforcement" personnel far too many
> violent alternatives for ready use, and totally insufficient training in
> how to avoid the need for violence in the first place.
>
> So, as the old saying goes, when all you've got is a hammer, everything
> starts looking like a nail.
I am reminded of the tag line of the American Institute of Internal 
Auditors, namely "Tone at the Top". One might safely argue that the tone 
at the top of any organization filters down through the organization and 
influences the behaviour and ethics of everyone in the chain of command 
right down to the grunts.
With the most bombastic POTUS on record and an Attorney General who sees 
quite fit to loudly berate in public a Federal judge sitting on "Some 
Island in the Pacific" is it any wonder that the tone at the top of the 
USA is filtering down to "enforcement" personnel?
Somebody might like to check out the second verse of Pete Seegar's 1949 
Hammer song before the hammer and nail mentality goes any further.
jh
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