why may i ask

just wondering is it anti-police, or is it anti police-state?

lol at opposing avatars, of course mine is purely comical, but yeah that totally sucks, i remember seeing police officers attack news reporters and peacefull protesters at an immigrant rally on the news

I saw cops club an old lady in the face at a protest once, along with lots of other fucked up shit involving rubber bullets (fortunately none hit me) and lots of tear gas and pepper spray. Cops are mostly fuckers. My most recent interaction with a cop involved getting a speeding ticket for doing +15 in a school zone, except I was really only going about 5 over the limit. Shithead totally lied and was a major dick to me while he issued the ticket, then didn't show up to court when I challenged it but the idiot judge still didn't care because he thinks cops never lie.

reductio ad absurdum!

I'm pretty sure they have a file on me, it's probably not a very big one though since I'm such an upstanding law abiding citizen. In college my roomate sent a threatening letter to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a few years later he supposedly renounced his citizenship and left the country. A friend of mine once tried to set Al Gore's wife on fire with an improvised flamethrower but was tackled by the SS and dragged out (no charges filed amazingly!). I've been to a few protests in my day and know I've been photographed and videotaped by men in suits wielding cameras. I am pretty certain I used to be on a security list of some sort because anytime I passed through airport security I would get a thorough screening, even to the point of wiping my stuff down with bomb detecting chempads. Once the post-9/11 list went into a effect it stopped completely. I've never been searched since, which is amazing because I used to be "randomly" selected every single time.


EDIT: I just realized that if they don't have a file on me yet they will after reading the above. Shout out to all the spooks in the house! You guys should recruit me, my current job is boring and my evil genius is going to waste.

The issue isn't that I was pulled over for speeding, it's that the cop lied about how fast I was going so I would get a bigger fine and it wouldn't look so weird that he pulled me over since +5 over the limit is acceptable 99% of the time, he was also a threatening jackass while writing me the ticket and did the whole hand on the gun scowling stare-down thing cops do when trying to intimidate. I expect cops to have some degree of "customer service" skill and to not break the law (e.g. by issuing false speeding tickets). I also expect them not to club old ladies in the face, or to attack peaceful protesters with pepper spray and tear gas and rubber bullets just because they get off on it. If you ever have a line of cops in full riot gear charging at you for no apparent reason maybe you will understand where I am coming from.  

I don't believe that the vast majority of cops are good, I think the vast majority of them signed up because they wanted the power that comes with a gun and badge. They do a lot of good because it's their job, and they do a lot of bad because they can get away with it and sometimes doing bad IS their job.

I've never suggested we shouldn't have cops or that the world would be a better place without cops. Again, reductio ad absurdum.