Run just a tad of research on the term “PIG police” and you will come up with bunches of info as to where the term came from, what the abbreviation stands for and more.

Some say it started way back in the early 1800s, but it became widespread in the early 1960s. It is a derogatory term. Personally, I believe the hippies came up with the correct term for LEOs that were bashing the daylights out of anybody with long hair. During that time, bashing barefoot people with long hair was quite the fashion. Seems to me the longer the hair and the barer the feet, the bigger the raises and faster the promotions for LEOs doing the bashing.

Some males that could not pass the physical to either enlist or be drafted into the military to “go kill a commie for Christ” in Nam, still had to prove they were macho, so a lot of them joined the LEO forces. That way, they could go beat up, harass, mace, intimidate, and otherwise kill, maim, and brutalize unarmed and/or unwashed masses, more or less with impunity.

Constant chanting of “HEY HEY LBJ, HOW MANY KIDS DID YOU KILL TODAY” didn’t help the other class of PIG victims’ cases much. This was the class of people that couldn’t fathom how their death or maiming could possibly help out the country at all. They were - gasp - the “protesters”. The unenlightened referred to them as traitors and cowards; I considered them to be Patriots.

These “cowards” were murdered by the PIGS in places from Haight-Ashbury to Kent State. It takes guts to watch some PIG sight down on you with his .357 mag Colt Trooper and not cut and run; much the same as staring down a tank. Unfortunately, with the same result. Nine chances out of ten, nobody at that time was going to cut loose at a PIG with an AK-47 for beating up some hippy; shoot, the PIG might even get a medal for shootinga protester. However, also during this time, some bright spark in Congress came up with and got passed the no-knock law that allowed the PIGS to simply bash in doors and enter premises without the courtesy of first knocking or ringing the bell.

It took several years and the deaths of several PIGS - not to mention citizens - to repeal. As the war wound down and the draft was done away with, the term PIG started fading into the sunset. However lately, with the passing of the USA PATRIOT Act, the onslaught of the sadistic tasering LEO, and other unconstitutional and illegal laws and deeds, such as the formation of governmental assassination squads, otherwise known as SWAT, the term PIG is making a well deserved albeit dangerous comeback.

Call a LEO a PIG and you may draw back a nub. Or if it’s more than one LEO or in the absence of friendly witnesses, or you do it while interfering with doughnut time, then you may not have anything left to draw back at all. They can bust you (up) now for merely disrespecting a police dog.

Let’s say you are a man or woman mature enough to know that you are being harassed, and only seconds away from getting that Taser blast, but you know you “ain’t a gonna take it layin’ down” and you’re going to call ’em PIGS even if it is your great final act of defiance. Screw that. Let’s try something else. After all, he who runs away, lives to fight another day. Oh, call ’em names by all means, but lets use a few they won’t readily recognize. We’ve all seen the movie Forbidden Planet, where Robby the Robot short-circuits and freezes up when trying to comprehend some undefined words. The same tactic might work with these robots.

Wikipedia has a whole listing of slang terms for police officers, and may be added to daily: List of slang terms for police officers.

If you read The New Romans I and II, you know there is a difference between LEOs and Peace Officers. So let’s be frank about this. All PIGS are LEOs. But please don’t refer to a real live Peace Officer as a PIG. You might be able to get away with it, if and only if you only use the term after he fully understands what it means in regards to him and his fellow Peace Officers: Pretty Intelligent Guy.

However, don’t try to use this definition on LEOs. It has too many syllables for them to follow.

Look for the next installment of The New Romans, Part IV: Wannabes.