Will Grigg briefs us on police business as usual in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.Read it all.
Think about the tens of thousands of other police-citizen encounters every single day here in the USA.
Now imagine those same interactions five years from now.
Five more years of laws at the local, state, and Federal levels.
Five more years of police militarization.
Do you understand yet?
This bit I've understood for decades.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of the few things I had right in my misspent youth.
Pigs.*
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(* If you're not a pig, then this doesn't refer to you. If the shoe fits, wear it.)
Massachusetts, birthplace of the American Revolution, cradle of liberty....and today a fucking shit-hole police state.
ReplyDeleteThe 2 examples cited by Grigg are surely not the only acts of state sponsored lawlessness.
The people vote these criminal into office, pay their ridiculously high salaries and put up with their goon-squad tactics. When the people take up the fight and I do mean literal fight that is when things will change. Because the only thing a bully understands is retaliatory force.
This sort of stuff makes me sick. I may be a LEO, but I'll be on your side of the barricade when the SHTF. And remember, there are lots just like me.
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for another view into lawlessness sponsored by the state, go see Radley Balko's site:
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today he features a story about a rogue Philadelphia Narcotics team and the manner in which they operated.
These stories are becoming more and more common. Partly due to the wonders of the information age, partly due to the opportunities that avail those in law enforcement via the war on drugs, partly due to the nature of the beast and the willingness of their brotherhood to tolerate it.
Perhaps it is still not too late for freedom fighters from the free states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire to invade Massachusetts and liberate their oppressed citizenry.
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"Perhaps it is still not too late for freedom fighters from the free states of Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire to invade Massachusetts and liberate their oppressed citizenry."
ReplyDeleteWhat's in it for those freedom fighters, and why is it any of their business to butt their noses into an internal political matter between Massachusetts residents and their rulers? This sure sounds like President Wilson committing an American army to the quarrels of the warring states of Europe.