This is not freedom. This is not even a life.
This is a battlefield, a war zone—if you will—governed by martial law and disguised as a democracy. No matter how many ways you fancy it up with shopping malls, populist elections, and Monday night football, the fact remains that “we the people” are little more than prisoners in the American police state, and the police are our jailers and wardens.
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“Police are specialists in violence. They are armed, trained, and authorized to use force. With varying degrees of subtlety, this colors their every action. Like the possibility of arrest, the threat of violence is implicit in every police encounter. Violence, as well as the law, is what they represent.”—Kristian Williams, activist and authorIf you don’t want to get probed, poked, pinched, tasered, tackled, searched, seized, stripped, manhandled, arrested, shot, or killed, don’t say, do or even suggest anything that even hints of noncompliance. This is the new “thin blue line” over which you must not cross in interactions with police if you want to walk away with your life and freedoms intact.
The following incidents and many more like them serve as chilling reminders that in the American police state, “we the people” are at the mercy of law enforcement officers who have almost absolute discretion to decide who is a threat, what constitutes resistance, and how harshly they can deal with the citizens they were appointed to “serve and protect.”
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The very fight for survival against ANY enforcement agencies draws near.... I imagine that may be one reason (of many) that the enforcers want all the military equipment. I suppose that I'd want it as well, knowing that the "fry fish" will soon become sharks, when that that trip point, (whatever that may be) is ultimately breached. Another "Ferguson", MO. or something similar? Personally, its becoming more difficult to maintain a polite decorum with the various enforcers that I interact with on a weekly basis (DOT enforcement agents). Wishing that things were different, but until enforcers are all held personally responsible for each an every action they take, or crime they commit..... Nothing. Will. Ever. Change.
ReplyDeleteuntil enforcers are all held personally responsible for each an every action they take, or crime they commit..... Nothing. Will. Ever. Change.
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