by The Dharma Bum » Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:34 am
No, you have stated quite bluntly on many occasions over the years that you hate cops. Yet you inexplicably exonerate the power that used the police force as it's pawn to make you drive the speed limit.
The very same power that militarized the cops and told them to go out there and be active in interfering with poor souls like Revenant because it's a great tool to generate extra revenue is the very one you seem so enamored with.
I do however agree that the police should not be militarized. I just don't see a way for that to happen within the context of authoritarian statism. Our social order requires operant conditioning for it to function (actually semi-function, I wouldn't say it has ever been fully functional). The police are the physical force that provides motivation in that context.
It doesn't have to be like that though.