I was looking at the Bethlehem Residents News Facebook page, a so-called pro-police page put out by the Bethlehem GOP and had to think their theme song must be Phil Och’s I Like Hitler. I can’t share the video on YouTube because the censors have banned it but I can post the lyrics below.

“There’s supposedly a wave of conservatism sweeping the country (sounds familar) and as the groups move farther and farther to the right, they find fewer and fewer songs that can be sung by people or groups as a whole…and when they finally arrive, I’d like to…I wrote this song for them, so they can sing when they get together.” — Phil Ochs

I like Hitler, Jolly Jolly Hitler
I like Hitler and Mussolini too

I like Franco in Spain 
And I'll have to maintain
That Batista was
Really quite all right

Trujillo was my man
Henry Ford/Hendrik Verwoerd would understand
What this country 
really needs is apartheid

Loyally we Birch along
Birch along, Birch along
Loyaly we Birch along
Back to the good old days

God save the king

I think it’s pure fascist trash to be celebrating government workers and the government. Maybe there is a role for some government employees in providing limited public safety and order, but we shouldn’t be celebrating fascism or fearing the public over the government worker.