“Common sense says you treat an old guy with a fever and a cane differently than a punk on bath salts eating somebodies face.”
Well, it’s “comnon sense” element that seems to be missing here. Like, zero tolerance in schools. Like shooting dogs that are barking at you instead of avoiding them. When I was in high school, I saw administrators confiscate small amounts of drugs from students and scare the crap out of them, instead of calling in the po-po and ruining their lives.
If liberals and conservatives can’t find some common ground against the machinery and process of thuggery soon, I agree that there will be a sudden, massive, and very ugly backlash against it. It’s just a matter of time until there is an incident so outrageous that it becomes a tipping point. I believe that someone like Ron Paul in some capacity can help to do this.
We have seen it before. Remember the L.A. riots? LAPD lost vast parts of the city to rioters. This was more than just Rodney King. This was decades of abuse at the hands of officers. This was back before everybody had a video camera on their phones, but obviously marked a new era of citizens filming cops.
Cops don’t like being filmed and held accountable. The sunlight tends to sanitize the bacteria.