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Firstly, they have no right to expectation of privacy in public. The courts have held for that concept many, many times over the years, so how the Hell do they suddenly decide a public servant in public has a right to expectation of privacy? The simple answer, they don't believe it themselves. However, they don't think they will be killed for their abuses. And there is the rub.
We are far too peaceable, and naively hopeful these issues can be settled by arguing law, principle, and morality in the venues supposedly appropriate for the application of justice, when what it will take to settle these issues is force. Ugly, deadly, unrelenting force.
Yes, I know that is a cynical outlook and that I have become cynical. But, in my defense, I was not born that way, nor did I grow that way. I was trained that way, and they are the ones who supplied that training.
I do feel very lucky that it has been years since any cop has tried to abuse me, because I do not accept abuse. I won every time before and I won on the street. No one wanted it to go to court or become common public knowledge. Because the difference between then and now, is that then abuse by cop was not a protected activity as it is now. Therefore nobody was willing to push it after the fact because their misdeeds would come to light. Now their misdeeds have been normalized and there is no shame nor consequence due for that abuse. It has since become a protected activity. Ergo, the reason for the necessity of ugly, deadly, and unrelenting force in reasserting our liberty.
In the parlance of today, THAT SUCKS, but is true nonetheless.
We all have only one decision to make. Accept the abuse and become livestock to benefit the herdsmen or reject the abuse and eliminate the abusers. No sane man, and I consider myself one, can find a damn thing about this situation to like, but its unattractiveness does not make it less true.
Jan 12, 2010, 6:11:03 PM