A letter from an SLCPD officer to me-
(I removed parts out for privacy)
Apr 19, 2020
Keep the fight brother. Many of the officers I spoke with today during shift were 100% on board with your rally and 100% against the restrictions. I don’t know any that are enforcing it.
…we (the union) need to express to Chief Brown we would not enforce the stay home order. You can imagine it fell on deaf ears. Not sure I’m quite ballsy enough, like you, to tell the chief what’s what. Maybe one day I’ll put my big boy pants on.
Anyway, wanna tell you I support you 110%. Keep standing up for the Constitution and what it truly means. Not many people like you left in America.
Your friend and fellow officer,
Xxxxxxxxx (badge # xxxx)
Thank you, brother.
You won’t be able to change it (with just you) from the inside unless you choose to fight the devil himself within and lose your job altogether; because he is in the details of this entire thing; fear and panic is of him. I’m sure you can feel that like many of us can.
If you do fight, then you altogether lose the ability to feed your family. And your family is the most important. Don’t forget that during this emotional time. But I pray if it gets really bad and there is some type of harder order from government, all the police will stand up at the same time. Because there will be several more waves of corona. Government will have to choose.
I fear it’s only going to get worse economically for the next several years and I pray your badge number is high enough once they start laying off cops; because that is coming. I assure you. In other words, I wouldn’t jeopardize it unless you really feel it in your heart, or if they have you try and cross a line you simply refuse to cross. Just keep close to God and He will tell you what to do.
However, what you can do, is keep in touch with me and I’ll help from the outside. Let me know if Mayor Mendenhall hasn’t pulled the snitch-on-your-neighbor hotline by next week, and I may do another call-to-action and bring not 2-3,000, but 10,000 for another rally/revival. That I promise. It’s unacceptable in America.
I was thinking about it last night, and it hit me; we are blaming the governments right now at all levels, and though it’s true the majority failed us without a plan, I believe ultimately it’s The People’s responsibility for ever allowing the government “control” to begin with.
No, most of us never really understood what a virus like this can do, including every government official we’ve seen try; but it seems none of us understands how our God given rights should be exercised right now. Nobody knows the proper role of government, including the government. Confusion everywhere.
Apathy and lack of engagement in politics is a main reason we are in this mess. Myself included. If we would have been more awake, like we should have been, and on alert like we must be, it never would have happened.
We would have taken all the unconstitutional recommendations with a grain of salt and safely gone to work weeks ago not skipping a beat. And I pray once the next wave of the virus flares up, which it will, we will say NO! And NEVER allow that to happen again.
Again, keep in touch and let me know if and where you need us next, if it comes to that point. God bless you and your family.
Still your brother in blue,
Moutsos-
former badge (N44)
