If police are our servants — rather than our armed overseers — why do they feel entitled to punish us for showing them “disrespect”? Drupatty Jaipersaud, who operates a Chevron station in Lawrenceville, Georgia, found herself in a real mess when the gas pumps ran dry during a sudden fuel shortage in September 2008. An aggravated customer apparently thought that the store owner (a woman of east Indian descent who was born in Guyana) didn’t want to sell him gas on account of his ethnic background. When told that the station had no gasoline, the customer — who verbally abused … Continue reading Attention, Mundanes: Don’t ‘Disrespect’ Your Armed Overseers