People's points rarely go over my head. I'm kinda astute that way. (PHD in English, Dotorate in Human behavior and group dynamics, University of Life).
In your case, I understand your point clearly. You are a passable communicator.
You say, like Antifa does, that all cops are bastards (ACAB). If you are misunderstood, please advise.
I like you in a you’re-a-cool-dude way.
Its nice to be liked, but not necessary for my survival. You seem to indicate that you may take me off the cool list if I persist with what you call my failure to understand and agree with your point. That will not happen (the agreement part).
The police don’t care about us. Look at all the bad, unconstitutional things they’ve done here, never mind in other countries.
On the contrary. The police do care about people. They are sworn to serve and protect them. Not all cops adhere to that, of course, as in every other profession on the earth.
Lemme tell you a story that has been in my head for decades. The story of the ants.
To add a racial tone to it, lets say there's this black ant colony. They are marching in a line, doing their ant thing and on the way back from raping and pillaging. They got their leaves hoist over their head and other booty to bring back to the Mother of Ants.
There is a long column of black ants marching. All of a sudden, one black ant says, 'F this S', drops his leaf, and bolts out of the line.
All of a sudden, one of the larger ants, who had been patrolling the column along with several other of his larger ant buddies, swooped in and grabbed the rebellious ant and proceeded to chop him up into about seven pieces. All the rest of the ants observed this take place.
The moral of the story is, the ants have police and they are there to keep the worker ants in line and on their job, for the good of the colony. The colony would become an anarchist state without the police ants, and the ants would not survive.
I hope you see where I'm going with the story of the ants. It works for the military too, in the case of red ant vs black ant warfare.
(its amazing what you can learn on Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom).
p.s. In a natural world, any form of human socialization would develop police. I refer you to "Lord of the Flies". All of the characters represented one element of a civilized (or not) society. In that book, the children formed a 'police force'.
The point being, we will always have 'cops'. When the S hits the F, we will have cops. Not formal cops, but cops nonetheless.
There were people on here that actually defended the brutal arrest of that elderly lady with dementia. Were you in favor of that arrest?
I'm not familiar with that case and didn't follow it, so I can't really speak to it. But I will say this. Sometimes people become a danger to themselves and/or others. Those people cannot be allowed to stay in their environment, or they may hurt themselves or somebody else. In CA, we have a statute in the Health and Safety code called 5150. Its likely that crazy lady was arrested on that authority, held for 72 hours in the looney bin, and released.
I am against 'dirty' cops. I knew several, and every chance I got, I did my best to do something about it. I just know for a FACT that not all cops are bastards. When you go on your ACAB rants, it triggers me on a personal AND philosophical level.
Feel free to not like me, but I will ALWAYS push back on anarchist rhetoric. I will continue to see to the protection of the colony in any way I can.
I too, took an oath.
Now observe, as the black ants buck the system.
#ThinBlueLine