Post by hapd on Nov 10, 2008 14:22:17 GMT -5
WHY PEOPLE HATE THE NYPD AND ITS POLITICAL ANIMALS:
Like a book, you can’t tell if it’s true until YOU try to read it and do the right thing, only to be shat upon.
Those Self Serving Sycophants we have all had to tolerate on the job know no boundaries when it comes to not doing the right thing. I write this RANT because another retired NYPD member and I, along with a number of other writers and military veterans (including some who were police elsewhere) authored a two volume book about fifty years of US Navy Destroyer history. For those of you who don’t know what a destroyer is, it is a ship designed to fight close and act as cannon fodder to protect aircraft carriers and other high-value US Navy ships.
These books were written to help preserve the hallowed traditions of the front line warships of the US Navy and to honor those who over the course of US Navy history have suffered the most casualties and hardships known, whether in combat or years of patrols around this globe in the interests of US National Security. Most of these ships and crews go unnoticed and rarely rewarded, except for the knowledge that the best was always done under the most arduous of peacetime and wartime operations. Carrier sailors make movies, Destroyer Sailors make HISTORY.
Another reason we put pen to paper was to honor a fallen United States Marine: Lance Corporal Shane Lee Goldman of the 3rd Platoon-Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, who perished in the line of duty at ar-Ramadi, Iraq. We made a most honorable decision to honor Goldman and all others who were KIA in the War on Terror by donating ALL OUR PROCEEDS from the sale of these books to the Navy- Marine Corps Relief Society, which is kind of like a large 10-13 association that helps with money, housing, or travel arrangements for family members visiting sick or injured Navy and Marine Corps members.
Our goal was to sell books so we could make a sizeable contribution to the Navy-Marine Corp Relief Society in time of war.
These books, titled SCURVY DOGS, GREEN WATER AND GUNSMOKE, FIFTY YEARS IN US NAVY DESTROYERS pay tribute all those sailors who have served on a Destroyer and to remember those who sailed or are sailing in Harm’s Way. Some of the stories are serious, some historical and some are rather funny recordings of how the crews of these ships lived - in cramped, dirty conditions which mirror many of the conditions we all experienced (well most of us did, you all recall those who never did an honest day’s work) as Police Officers here in the Rotten Apple.
This RANT has a large audience, you that grizzled Cop who has had to pull the weight while many others sat on the sides, scared of their own shadows and enlarging their already large egos and their telling tall stories of their complete lack of honesty, bravery, intelligence, integrity and fealty.
Some of these supposed Police Officers began associations that have come to be known as the NYPD Marine Corps Association and the NYPD US Navy Association, which are comprised of NYPD members who are veterans or active reservists of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps. You’d think that such organizations would have in their charters or beliefs – and their actions - that they are also established to honor those who have made sacrifices in the line of duty and to fraternally support efforts by others to help members of our military.
We know what these associations are capable of when they put forth the effort in assisting others. That is, when they’re not furthering their own careers or obtaining nice details for themselves or giving out platitudes and dubious awards to police whores, ranking members of the department and political elites, instead of honoring their own members, those who actually served in the US Military and are again serving the citizens of New York City.
Let me begin with some recent history of what we think took place when the NYPD Marine Corp Association and the NYPD US Navy Association were approached with the idea of helping to promote SCURVY DOGS, GREEN WATER AND GUNSMOKE. We sent several e-mails to the leadership of these two associations establishing who we are, and what we’d like to accomplish with the books, e-mails that went largely unanswered. We followed up with phone calls which were carbon copies of the e-mails. We were told by leaders of both associations that they would consult with their respective board committees and they’d get back to us with a decision. We were asking for a small amount of time during the Marine and Navy Association gatherings at One Police Plaza this past October and November to plug these books to the assembled members to help raise money for the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. We sought no accolades for what we were attempting to do. We sought no favors with anyone in the department or with anyone in either of these two associations. We just wanted to raise money for a military charity.
After a time we managed to receive a reply from the head of the NYPD US Navy Association, that due to time constraints at the gathering we would not be able to sell the books and that the only items permitted to be sold were “official” NYPD Navy Association gear such as hats, T-Shirts, golf shirts and God knows what else. As for the NYPD Marine Corps Association, after pressing for an answer, we were told curtly that no assistance of any kind would be given in even passing the word, not at any function nor through any means!
So we ask ourselves, just what are the reasons for these two associations to breathe the free fresh air that others sacrificed their very health and safety to provide? What legitimate purposes do they serve? What do they do to honor others or help those in need while slapping each other on their backs? If you’re not part of their inner circle, nothing it seems. Nothing but blowing hot wind. Nothing, where a small something would have gone a long way to help a most worthy charity.
Those of you who read the RANT and who are members of the NYPD Navy Association and the NYPD Marine Corps Association, ask your association leadership just why in this case was their leadership so lacking? WHY?
To sum it up, our interactions with the NYPD Navy and Marine Corps associations were kind of like those interactions we as Police Officers experienced everyday with the NYPD. Lousy attitudes, lack of caring and it’s all about the SHOW of being something they are not (an institution that actually gave a crap) and where most of the leadership was for one sole purpose - THEMSELVES.
Like a book, you can’t tell if it’s true until YOU try to read it and do the right thing, only to be shat upon.
Those Self Serving Sycophants we have all had to tolerate on the job know no boundaries when it comes to not doing the right thing. I write this RANT because another retired NYPD member and I, along with a number of other writers and military veterans (including some who were police elsewhere) authored a two volume book about fifty years of US Navy Destroyer history. For those of you who don’t know what a destroyer is, it is a ship designed to fight close and act as cannon fodder to protect aircraft carriers and other high-value US Navy ships.
These books were written to help preserve the hallowed traditions of the front line warships of the US Navy and to honor those who over the course of US Navy history have suffered the most casualties and hardships known, whether in combat or years of patrols around this globe in the interests of US National Security. Most of these ships and crews go unnoticed and rarely rewarded, except for the knowledge that the best was always done under the most arduous of peacetime and wartime operations. Carrier sailors make movies, Destroyer Sailors make HISTORY.
Another reason we put pen to paper was to honor a fallen United States Marine: Lance Corporal Shane Lee Goldman of the 3rd Platoon-Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, who perished in the line of duty at ar-Ramadi, Iraq. We made a most honorable decision to honor Goldman and all others who were KIA in the War on Terror by donating ALL OUR PROCEEDS from the sale of these books to the Navy- Marine Corps Relief Society, which is kind of like a large 10-13 association that helps with money, housing, or travel arrangements for family members visiting sick or injured Navy and Marine Corps members.
Our goal was to sell books so we could make a sizeable contribution to the Navy-Marine Corp Relief Society in time of war.
These books, titled SCURVY DOGS, GREEN WATER AND GUNSMOKE, FIFTY YEARS IN US NAVY DESTROYERS pay tribute all those sailors who have served on a Destroyer and to remember those who sailed or are sailing in Harm’s Way. Some of the stories are serious, some historical and some are rather funny recordings of how the crews of these ships lived - in cramped, dirty conditions which mirror many of the conditions we all experienced (well most of us did, you all recall those who never did an honest day’s work) as Police Officers here in the Rotten Apple.
This RANT has a large audience, you that grizzled Cop who has had to pull the weight while many others sat on the sides, scared of their own shadows and enlarging their already large egos and their telling tall stories of their complete lack of honesty, bravery, intelligence, integrity and fealty.
Some of these supposed Police Officers began associations that have come to be known as the NYPD Marine Corps Association and the NYPD US Navy Association, which are comprised of NYPD members who are veterans or active reservists of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps. You’d think that such organizations would have in their charters or beliefs – and their actions - that they are also established to honor those who have made sacrifices in the line of duty and to fraternally support efforts by others to help members of our military.
We know what these associations are capable of when they put forth the effort in assisting others. That is, when they’re not furthering their own careers or obtaining nice details for themselves or giving out platitudes and dubious awards to police whores, ranking members of the department and political elites, instead of honoring their own members, those who actually served in the US Military and are again serving the citizens of New York City.
Let me begin with some recent history of what we think took place when the NYPD Marine Corp Association and the NYPD US Navy Association were approached with the idea of helping to promote SCURVY DOGS, GREEN WATER AND GUNSMOKE. We sent several e-mails to the leadership of these two associations establishing who we are, and what we’d like to accomplish with the books, e-mails that went largely unanswered. We followed up with phone calls which were carbon copies of the e-mails. We were told by leaders of both associations that they would consult with their respective board committees and they’d get back to us with a decision. We were asking for a small amount of time during the Marine and Navy Association gatherings at One Police Plaza this past October and November to plug these books to the assembled members to help raise money for the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society. We sought no accolades for what we were attempting to do. We sought no favors with anyone in the department or with anyone in either of these two associations. We just wanted to raise money for a military charity.
After a time we managed to receive a reply from the head of the NYPD US Navy Association, that due to time constraints at the gathering we would not be able to sell the books and that the only items permitted to be sold were “official” NYPD Navy Association gear such as hats, T-Shirts, golf shirts and God knows what else. As for the NYPD Marine Corps Association, after pressing for an answer, we were told curtly that no assistance of any kind would be given in even passing the word, not at any function nor through any means!
So we ask ourselves, just what are the reasons for these two associations to breathe the free fresh air that others sacrificed their very health and safety to provide? What legitimate purposes do they serve? What do they do to honor others or help those in need while slapping each other on their backs? If you’re not part of their inner circle, nothing it seems. Nothing but blowing hot wind. Nothing, where a small something would have gone a long way to help a most worthy charity.
Those of you who read the RANT and who are members of the NYPD Navy Association and the NYPD Marine Corps Association, ask your association leadership just why in this case was their leadership so lacking? WHY?
To sum it up, our interactions with the NYPD Navy and Marine Corps associations were kind of like those interactions we as Police Officers experienced everyday with the NYPD. Lousy attitudes, lack of caring and it’s all about the SHOW of being something they are not (an institution that actually gave a crap) and where most of the leadership was for one sole purpose - THEMSELVES.
