Archer's Line 🎙️ by Rob Archer

Archer's Line 🎙️ by Rob Archer

There's a reason you separate military and the police

A Battlestar Galactica quote for the post-9/11 world becomes fresh again

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Rob Archer
Sep 30, 2025
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Probably one of the most quoted lines from Admiral Adama in Battlestar Galactica is this:

“There’s a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people.”

The 2000s reboot of BSG was a show about t…

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