There was a young man from Massachusetts, That man fought in world war II and when he returned home he ran for the House of Representative after he achieved that he then moved on to the Senate. He held a further goal to become the leader of our nation. Now its true he was a democrat, but a democrat who loved his country and upheld its constitution and bill of rights, he fervently believed in and held the upmost respect for our laws and the principles of our country. He was a good man. So in 1960 he ran for office of the president of the united states and ultimately won. he had been elected by "we" the people in 1961.
During his term there were a few scandals one of them being "The bay of pigs invasion" that was later preceded by the Cuban missile crisis. There was a third CIA proposed operation called "Operation Northwoods (Declassified in 1992)". This plan was to create false flags terrorist attacks on American soil then pin it on the Cuban dictatorship to justify a full on invasion by the US into Cuba. When this op was presented to the president and he out right rejected it and admonished Brig. Gen. Edward Lansdale, the person who tried to hatch this plan. The president being so disgusted stated "I will splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the wind." Not to long after he made this quote and on a sunny November Texas day this man from Massachusetts was removed from his office... by a bullet, fired by what we were told was a lone shooter who was faithful to a certain communist political party.
Even to this day the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy remains open for debate. Some say it was single man that was a good shot. Some say it was the work of the mob. and others believe it was even one of our own government agencies gone rogue so they could stay in business.
My point to this and how I think it pertains to the MSP is that they can't afford dissension in the ranks and will do anything to prevent it, so they have cut off the nose to spite the face even if it includes smearing and terminating good troopers while at the same time allowing the shitty ones continue to march on, and in some cases to promotion. Trooper Luke Bonin was, and fuck it still is, the epitome of a Trooper and Cop. Anyone can become a "Police officer" or a "Statie" all it takes is an academy a uniform and the ability to write a ticket and follow orders. Being a Cop on the other hand, or a true blue Trooper takes a special kind of person. Someone who will help the weak. Someone who will hold the line. Someone who will lead the way. Someone who will drop everything to help a brother. Someone that has empathy, care and compassion for those who they were sworn to protect. Someone who stood by and upheld the MSP ethics. They had all of this, in this trooper and the many other that were let go or forced into retirement. The brass simply didn't care and found it was easier to just throw them all away because of their pig headed pride and the refusal to take "no" for a answer. The failure of this administration to back the men and woman who patrol the streets will be a stain on the Massachusetts State Police until the end of days.