Dear Readers,
I was talking with the school security guard this morning. Every Tuesday morning we have supervision duty together, where we have to watch the kids get off the busses and make sure they’re not up to any funny business.
He told me an interesting story.
He said that once when he was a cop in Los Angeles, the alarm to an LDS temple went off in the middle of the night. Some teenagers had broken into the temple and broken some windows and stolen a few things.
He showed up to the temple, and starts looking around the scene of the crime, and then an angry church official shows up and yells, “Hey, are you cops Mormon? You can’t be in here unless you’re Mormon!”
But my security guard friend, who is a life-long Catholic, said to the church official, “Look, this is a crime scene. I have to look everywhere.”
And then the church official got angry and said, “No way, only Mormons can be in here.”
And then my security guard friend said, “Sir, you’re obstructing me and I could arrest you,” (the security guard has a confrontational attitude) and he and another cop looked all around the temple, did their jobs, and wrote down which windows were broken and such… and that’s the end of his version of the story.
The story interested me so much because I just wonder what the proper Church protocol was. And I wonder what the proper police protocol was.
Cops need to be able to investigate crime scenes, wherever those crime scenes happen to occur. It would be bad if there where places the cops couldn’t go…geographical asylums from the law, beyond the reach of the long arm of the law. Then a bunch of criminals would do all their criminal things in the places where the cops couldn’t go… maybe.
On the other hand, it seems like there should be some laws protecting sacred places from being intruded upon by unbelieving government people.
Like Waco Texas!
Those ATF (Alchohol Tobacco and Firearms) and FBI agents should have left the peaceful Branch Davidians alone!
I tell you, sometimes I love cops and armed federal agents, like when I've been robbed, (not that I've ever been robbed, but if I did get robbed, I'd like it if there were some cops around) but other times I dislike the cops. I think a lot of guys become cops just because they want to show off their guns, be jerks, and boss people around.
And the attitude of the ATF and FBI agents involved in the Waco Texas thing was deplorable. There was some messed up stuff that went on there, and we shouldn't forget about it. It perfectly illustrates what happens when the government gets too cocky and corrupt and godless.
But I digress.
What do you think? Do you think my security guard friend did the right thing in searching the temple?
Sincerely,
Telemoonfa
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I think he should've left the temple alone. Searching the temple wouldn't have made the temple better. in fact he prolly made it worse.
and those punks should've left the temple alone too. I would've been angry too. Like that church guy.
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