I guess that's better than wanting to be a
"Stop" sign which our neighbour's son wanted
to be - because he liked the idea of control.

Thankfully he grew out of it. And today is a
parish priest. (smile).

Australia has 9 police forces for 25.5 million people, in the land of the gun and home of the grenade they have 18,000 pseudo outfits for 330 million doing the same job. In small town U.S.A, you can get elected town sheriff just as easily as getting elected town dog catcher, no formal training or qualifications required. Then you can hire a couple of your buddies, the good ole' boys, as your deputies. That's why at many traffic stops, a town deputy will often poke a gun in the drivers face, before ordering him to "GET OUT OF THE CAR!

Foxy said;
He ensured the photo opp would take place becaue prior
to the bible photo shoot Trump ordered the area
cleared of protesters by law enforcement who used
tear gas and flash-bang grenades to dispel the crowd.
Such "Christian" behaviour.

Foxy, I am amazed that you are so unread.
Whenever a President moves anywhere the Secret Service, a misnomer if
ever there was one, checks and clears the area of anyone they do not
know or of which they are suspicious.
Trump would not have ordered anything, he automatically would have
expected it to be so.

The amount of nonsense being propagated on here by people I thought
had above general knowledge has amazed me. Some of your statements
belong there.

As an aside, many thousands of white people were slaves mostly at
the hands of Arab slave traders before Islam appeared on the scene.
They sold slaves to the Romans who had a practice of after many years
of service would grant them Roman citizenship and so they were free.
The Arab slavers raided all the Med coast Spain, Britain and France
and even to Iceland where they especially went after blonde girls as
they fetched a special price in Arab countries and North Africa after
the Islamisation of Nth Africa.
You can see echos of this today in Rotham in the UK.
It did not really cease until the new US Navy went to the Med and
forced the Moslem rulers to stop the Barbary Coast slave traders
and Pirates. The rulers wanted money to stop the trade but Bengimin
Franklin said stop it or else. Sounds like Trump !

Bazz,

We lived and worked in the United States for
close to ten years.
I am familiar with the security required for US
Presidents. The information that I was citing
concerning the current US President was
taken from the US newspapers.

President Trump is one of the view US Presidents who
has given order to law enforcement to behave in the
way that they have. He's threatened "the most vicious
dogs and weapons", on crowds outside the White House.
He's also trolling the democratic leaders for their
supposed failures to contain the unrest.

There is a vacuum in response to the chaos, just as there is
with Covid-19. It's every state for itself.
Don't you dare try to defend the f- wit. He should be
removed from office - he's a danger to everyone.

No doubt that ensuring law and order is an important need.

But it is the way Trump is going about it which, i believe, is more in line with being a dictator rather than a democratic leader.

Chris,

The American War of Independence and the framing of their political system by the founding fathers was all about getting rid of autocrats be they dictators or kings so I hope Trump keeps on doing what he is doing because the built-in mechanisms in the political culture will ensure that this will be his only term of office.

Goodbye Trump!