Thinking of the police as an entity unto themselves is utterly incorrect. They are government functionaries. It seems that many people are just now discovering this, and it has them scandalized. Santa isn't real, the Easter Bunny was really your parents, and the police are an extension of local government.
They are only and exactly as good as their civilian leadership. There may be individuals who quietly question and avoid some of the questionable laws and orders that filter down to them, but any police agency will inexorably become what the civilian command creates.
Anyone waiting for the police to start the Revolution™ will be disappointed. Many will join in if the ball gets rolling, but a relative handful of people trained to enforce the law as it is understood aren't going to get things started. If laws and orders aren't countermanded by the judiciary and legislature, they stand. If the police seize unilateral authority to interpret laws and orders, you essentially have a local paramilitary coup.
We need to stop focusing on the whip in the hand of the tyrant and go straight to the tyrant. MAGA needs to flood public meetings of all kinds. Officials need to feel that the streets are full of the opposition. And it can never stop. If the citizens won't put down their TV remotes and game controllers, nothing can save them.
Police don't function though. Police cried at me all night for not being able to arrest me. I have to unclog this shit for them? Pathetic. The government has surrendered.
Police most decidedly do things, even if they aren't the things you'd like them to do. We don't want then functioning independently of their civilian government, either. We want to be that government.
No one wants to be a government. That's fucking stupid. Governments suck. No one participates in the system except through coercive action. When will 'the government' fix itself? It is all corrupted, yet they pretend to be above board and actually lawful. That is simply astounding.
The law, the Constitution, the Code of Hammurabi--they're all meaningless unless someone they are being enforced. One thing is certain, though: a society will be ruled. If the people will not maintain the presence to rule themselves, then someone else will do it.
Look at your fellow pedes. First, the military was going to ride in and fix this. Now, were upset that the police are doing exactly what the police have always done instead of riding in to fix this. We fix this, or it doesn't get fixed.
Thinking of the police as an entity unto themselves is utterly incorrect. They are government functionaries. It seems that many people are just now discovering this, and it has them scandalized. Santa isn't real, the Easter Bunny was really your parents, and the police are an extension of local government.
They are only and exactly as good as their civilian leadership. There may be individuals who quietly question and avoid some of the questionable laws and orders that filter down to them, but any police agency will inexorably become what the civilian command creates.
Anyone waiting for the police to start the Revolution™ will be disappointed. Many will join in if the ball gets rolling, but a relative handful of people trained to enforce the law as it is understood aren't going to get things started. If laws and orders aren't countermanded by the judiciary and legislature, they stand. If the police seize unilateral authority to interpret laws and orders, you essentially have a local paramilitary coup.
We need to stop focusing on the whip in the hand of the tyrant and go straight to the tyrant. MAGA needs to flood public meetings of all kinds. Officials need to feel that the streets are full of the opposition. And it can never stop. If the citizens won't put down their TV remotes and game controllers, nothing can save them.
Police don't function though. Police cried at me all night for not being able to arrest me. I have to unclog this shit for them? Pathetic. The government has surrendered.
Police most decidedly do things, even if they aren't the things you'd like them to do. We don't want then functioning independently of their civilian government, either. We want to be that government.
No one wants to be a government. That's fucking stupid. Governments suck. No one participates in the system except through coercive action. When will 'the government' fix itself? It is all corrupted, yet they pretend to be above board and actually lawful. That is simply astounding.
The law, the Constitution, the Code of Hammurabi--they're all meaningless unless someone they are being enforced. One thing is certain, though: a society will be ruled. If the people will not maintain the presence to rule themselves, then someone else will do it.
Look at your fellow pedes. First, the military was going to ride in and fix this. Now, were upset that the police are doing exactly what the police have always done instead of riding in to fix this. We fix this, or it doesn't get fixed.