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Glendale, MO cop Matthew Pappert. #Fergusonpic.twitter.com/HjnbHdLxiOThe Glendale police learnt of the posts on Friday morning and immediately launched an investigation into the matter, according to a statement by Police Chief Jeffrey Beaton, who specified the views expressed in the posts were not shared by the department.
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"Gullibility is one of the trademarks of the authoritarian followers, who provide crucial support for their authoritarian leaders. Altemeyer defines authoritarian followers as having three core characteristics: 1) high degree of submission to authority; 2) willingness to attack other people in the name of the authority; and 3) highly conventional attitudesPonerology: Why the Corrupt Few Wreak So Much Death, Destruction, and Suffering on the Rest of Us
Altemeyer discusses the submission to authority, lack of independent thinking and need for approval that characterizes the authoritarian followers:Authoritarian followers seem to have a "Daddy and mommy know best" attitude toward the government. They do not see laws as social standards that apply to all. Instead, they appear to think that authorities are above the law, and can decide which laws apply to them and which do not - just as parents can when one is young...Though they habitually use the rhetoric of righteousness, they tend to be full of hatred, and their behavior quickly turns ugly when they are under stress."
If you ask subjects to rank the importance of various values in life, authoritarian followers place "being normal" substantially higher than most people do. It's almost as though they want to disappear as individuals into the vast vat of Ordinaries.
Comment: In case anyone thinks that this is a 'one off' event, the result of a 'few bad apples, think again. This is par for the course in Israeli occupied Palestine, where Israeli soldiers murder with impunity, calling to mind the indiscriminate murder of Jews by Nazi troops during WW2.
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