Quentin Tarantino attended a rally against police brutality and criminality.  Families of victims killed by cops were in attendance, the point being to show solidarity against police officers overstepping their legal limits.  Tarantino called cops who've killed unarmed black people "murderers," a word offensive, apparently, to those who prefer to imagine that cops these days, post-Ferguson with its killing of Michael Brown by a white cop, are beset by hostility from the masses and don't know how to behave anymore.
     The Fraternal Order of Police, with approximately 300,000 members, is supposedly planning "a surprise" for Tarantino prior to the release of his upcoming Western, The H8teful Eight.  They claim they'll hit him economically, "where it hurts."  The FOP executive director assured us that cops are dedicated to stopping violence, while Tarantino makes violent movies (but, I point out, so does Steven Spielberg).
     Yes, we know that cops are not supposed to hurt innocent people, yet, as Tarantino pointed out at that rally, they do sometimes ruin and take lives without sufficient rational cause.
     The cop in Fox Lake, Illinois, hailed for a time as "a hero," was supposedly shot and killed by two white men and one black man, right about the time a Texas policeman was murdered while pumping gas.  These killings prompted an abundance of Fox News fulminations against those disparaging law enforcement in America.  A thing called "the Ferguson Effect" was cited, the theory that, since the shooting of Michael Brown by a white police officer, cops nowadays fear to fully engage with their jobs, since they're under so much scrutiny from phone camera-holding citizens and under so much pressure to be far better than humanly possible.
     The Fox Lake cop's death caused a large manhunt for the perpetrators, who were never found.  A few days ago we heard the perps weren't found because they don't exist.  The manhunt cost about 300,000 dollars.  The dead hero cop staged his death, committing suicide.  Authorities were close to discovering his embezzling of thousands of dollars from a police youth fund.  He was a real asshole.
     Quentin Tarantino, it seems to be lost on some, wasn't criticizing the police, but was condemning police brutality.  The North Charleston cop who shot a fleeing black man in the back and planted evidence (captured on phone cam by a citizen) is a murderer.  Calling cops who murder people murderers is simply proper use of the English language.
     The Fraternal Order of Police plans to upset a movie director by using a tactic that rarely works: banning.  Banned books (Slaughterhouse Five, Catcher in the Rye) end up selling far more copies when the stupid malice of self-appointed censors is expressed.  These cops so offended by Tarantino's impassioned words against police injustice seem to believe they can economically hurt a director as popular as Quentin Tarantino.  Do they realize his film Pulp Fiction is a revered cinematic gem illuminating American pop culture like few other films of the 1990s?  Far more people, I'm guessing, give a shit about Tarantino's opinions than those of Joe Pasco, FOP's executive director, who displays his quality of intellect by announcing a "surprise" before the surprise pops.
     A final note: The Department of Homeland Security has approved Secret Service protection for Ben Carson and Donald Trump.  Among other things, this means that taxpayers will pay for the protection of a billionaire who can afford his own security.  This should've been put to a vote.

                                                                               Vic Neptune