[The barrel is rotten] is perceived as LEO bashing which is a known violation of Forum Rules. Please do not contunue further down this path.
Maybe that's how its perceived by cop-apologists.
I perceived it to be a metaphor for the interlocking protection racket for bad cops--the Blue Wall of Silence, unions, union contracts, unjustified credibility assigned to cops by prosecutors and judges, qualified immunity, the good faith exception, and so forth.
Its a metaphor for ******* sake! Now we're enforcing metaphors!!
The moderator is now using a similar tactic to athiests fighting religion on 1A grounds of separation of church and state. "The church and state must be separate!!" They're taking a metaphor Thomas Jefferson invented in a letter to the (Danbury Baptist Church?) wherein he remarked the founders had created a wall of separation between the church and state. Today the ******** athiests are trying to enforce the metaphor instead.
So, here's our moderator decrying a ******** metaphor!! instead of something that actually does violate the forum rules. And, he knows he's making a stretch. Why? Because he had to preface his comment with "that is perceived."