[Kzyxtalk] Per servire e proteggere.

[Marco McClean]

Subject: Per servire e proteggere.

/"There's a reason you separate the military and the police. One fights 
the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When 
the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become 
the people." -Admiral Adama/

The recording of last night's (2020-06-05) Memo of the Air: Good Night 
Radio show on KNYO-LP Fort Bragg and KMEC-LP Ukiah is right here:
https://tinyurl.com/KNYO-MOTA-0387

Furthermore, at https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com you'll find a fresh 
batch of dozens of links to not necessarily radio-useful but nonetheless 
worthwhile educational items I set aside for you while gathering the 
show together. Such as:

This is like something Simone Giertz would make. The video only shows 
one cycle, but it's made to go and go. (Though if Simone Giertz had made 
this it would spin as fast as an electric fan and the flame would strobe 
on and off like an old movie projector.) (And if Survival Research Labs 
made one it would be thirty feet tall, weigh seven tons, go around 
thirteen times, unscrew itself, and fall apart, the massive parts 
crashing down to stop just inches before the feet of the audience.) (I 
think everyone in Survival Research Labs' crew has had some kind of 
traumatic injury-- deafened or lost a hand or an eye or has a plate in 
his head or something.)
https://laughingsquid.com/the-conflicted-candle/

Trigger warning: blood spills out of the tall, gentle old man's ear 
after a policeman shoves him down so he hits his head on the pavement. 
Another officer seems for a moment to want to help him, but he's pulled 
away to continue to march to menace some people to camera-left. Later, 
when called on all this, the police claimed the man tripped. You know, 
he just tripped over his own big stupid feet. Why didn't you help him, 
then, you know? Protect and serve? Here: "...During that skirmish 
involving protestors, one person was injured when he tripped and fell." 
(After internet outrage, two officers were temporarily suspended from 
duty, with pay, over this. Such shabby disrespect of their brothers in 
blue incensed the other 57 officers in the squad, and caused them to 
resign from police-riot duty in a huff. Because every day is upside-down 
day now.) (Click the sound on.)
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1268725480695361537

Ad for Old Spice after-shave liquid. (Well, let’s see what it's made of… 
It turns out to be mostly two kinds of alcohol that you can’t drink 
because they’re poison, a little propylene glycol, some tap water, a few 
molecules of color, and then, according to the company's website, /"It 
opens with spicy, citrusy top notes: nutmeg, lemon, orange, star anise & 
aldehydes. Then the floral heart becomes apparent with carnation, 
jasmine, geranium, cinnamon, heliotrope, & pimento. All this is laid on 
a base of ambergris, benzoin, cedar, vanilla, tonka bean, and musk."/  
And I suddenly remember: in an office where I used to work, the young 
woman at the front desk, a single parent of a small boy, told me, for 
some reason, that she was always really attracted to men who smell like 
after-shave.  I said, "Did your father smell like that?"  She looked 
surprised, narrowed her eyes and said, "Yeah."  I said, "Do you think 
that might be why?"  She said, "Why what?"
https://misscellania.blogspot.com/2020/06/hungry-like-wolf.html

And I don’t usually repost a link to a reddit thread, but you might get 
a kick out of browsing through this. For instance, in the 
bible-contact-juggling photo op, three items down, you’ll notice the top 
of Trump’s hair has become a golden ferret curled into a tam o’shanter 
hat, a lenticular foam frisbee, a cough drop, or a button that if 
pressed down on by a big finger would make an airy squeak and you'd look 
up to the sky and say, "Press it again. Harder."
https://tinyurl.com/LafayetteSquareLesson

-- 
Marco McClean, memo at mcn.org,
https://MemoOfTheAir.wordpress.com