Mitt Romney's Authoritarian Police State Jollies: Romney Used to Impersonate Police Officers

There is a lot I don't like about liberal Republican Mitt Romney. The fact Romney can't tell the truth about his liberal record as he parades around pretending to be a conservative bothers me the most. There appears to be this thirst for power that Romney has long held as the child of a powerful Rockefeller Republican governor (the part of the Republican party I despise with its leftward leaning ways).

Like it or not, it's hard not to argue the modern American police state we now live in is rooted in the George W. Bush administration who grew government creating the Department of Homeland Security. DHS is the modern symbol of the American police state, slowly expanding into every facet of American life in the name of safety with little regard for individual liberties. The powers of DHS continue to grow.

So what would a Mitt Romney presidency mean for an America that puts safety before liberty, something Benjamin Franklin warned against.

Those who give up liberty for security deserve neither. Benjamin Franklin

Well interestingly enough we have tales of Mitt Romney and his total disregard for the law and civil rights as he once dressed up as a police officer to harass the citizens of Michigan.

When Willard's (Mitt) dad was governor, he would take into possession a Michigan state police officer uniform and impersonate a police officer according those who knew young Mitt.

Kyle Roerink reports of Mitt Romney's authoritarian pranks:

When Mitt Romney was a college freshman, he told fellow residents of his Stanford University dormitory that he sometimes disguised himself as a police officer – a crime in many states, including Michigan and California, where he then lived. And he had the uniform on display as proof.

So recalls Robin Madden, who had also just arrived as a freshman, the startling incident began when Romney called him and two or three other residents into his room, saying, “Come up, I want to show you something.” When they entered Romney’s room, “and laid out on his bed was a Michigan State Trooper’s uniform.”

Madden, a native Texan who graduated from Stanford in 1970 and went on to become a successful television producer and writer, has never forgotten that strange moment, which he has recounted to friends over the years as he observed his former classmate’s political ascent. The National Memo learned of the incident from a longtime Madden friend to whom he had mentioned it years ago.

Said Madden in a recent interview, “He told us that he had gotten the uniform from his father,” George Romney, then the Governor of Michigan, whose security detail was staffed by uniformed troopers. “He told us that he was using it to pull over drivers on the road. He also had a red flashing light that he would attach to the top of his white Rambler.”

In Madden’s recollection, confirmed by his wife Susan, who also attended Stanford during those years, “we thought it was all pretty weird. We all thought, ‘Wow, that’s pretty creepy.’ And after that, we didn’t have much interaction with him,” although both Madden and Romney were prep school boys living in the same dorm, called Rinconada.

Other eyewitnesses have previously recalled Romney’s alleged use of a police or trooper uniform in pranks during his high school years at the exclusive Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Phillip Maxwell, a prep school buddy, told the New Republic in 2008 that Romney had pulled over students from a girls school next door to Cranbrook while wearing a police uniform as a prank. Other former classmates described Mitt as a “happy-go-lucky guy known less for his achievements and more for his pranks.”

I ask a simple question here. Was Mitt just playing a harmless prank, or was Mitt so enamored with power over people that it drove him to breaking the law and infringing upon the rights of the residents of Michigan while breaking a serious law? Impersonating a police officer is no laughing matter.

I really hope it was just a prank, because at this time in American history with our Constitutional rights under constant threat by this modern police state built up from 9/11, we really need people of integrity to lead America through some of its darkest days rather than someone who gets their rocks off with a bad case of authoritarian police state jollies.