Black People have been learning “respect” for generations of jim crow… I hate this. This is how systemic oppression starts. Normalizing the actions of police with CHILDREN. In school.
The only form of respect a pig deserves is in the form of a bullet ripping through the few cubic millimeters of grey matter they have in their neanderthal skulls.
The only good cop is a dead cop.
I hate cops too. Like so what if people want to rape, murder, and steal. What right does a cop have to stop all that feel good stuff?
1971 was the beginning of the war on drugs that was declared to stifle and destroy the civil rights movement and the anti-war efforts by leftist activists. Technically it’s a violation of the constitution. And since then, we have developed a prison industrial complex with the highest prison population in the world (ironic considering we call ourselves the land of the free), an Orwellian police and surveillance state that has costed nearly a trillion dollars and violates the lives, security, liberty, privacy, and property of American citizens, and has led to a private prison industry that is a modern form of slavery that robs wages from Americans and creates a demand for prisoners. I’m not arguing murderers and rapists should be allowed to murder and rape. I’m arguing of the criminality of law enforcement agencies and the various human and civil rights violations they commit over draconian legislation and that it’s riddled with thugs who have a propriety for low intelligence, sexism, racism, drug abuse, domestic abuse, rape, pedophilia, murder, extortion, steroid abuse, and corruption.
As far as enforcing petty thievery crimes that are generally more crimes of necessity it’s barbaric. If they truly wanted to crack down on theft, they’d be arresting politicians, corporate bureaucrats and people in the top tiers of institutions, and bankers, as they committed systematic theft that disenfranchises and marginalizes so many.
If you know your history and understand the infrastructural and superstructural traits of capitalism, it may become obvious that liberty in this context is, and always has been, heavily rooted in property acquisition. Of important note here, by “property”, I mean private property, a particular relationship to social institutions central to capitalism. In essence, private property involves the subordination of labor to capital and tenant to landlord (among others) in those social institutions; it is the infrastructure of class society and it requires that the majority of individuals enter into these autocratically-managed institutions in order to earn wages (fractions of what they produce as workers) and gain access to the life necessities withheld from them.
Condemning people who do take back what was made with the stolen value of our labor is to align oneself with the moral apparatuses of oppression. That is, one becomes a conduit of oppressive power.
The actual theft happened on behalf of the monied class, by those who control the means of production when they extract the surplus value of working class people’s labor and then sell it back to us for profit. That’s called structural theft. It’s also more commonly known as poverty.
As far as victimless crimes caused by the drug war, science has determine there’s a higher correlation between drug use and sexual abuse/trauma than there is between diabetes and obesity. So when we declare a war on drugs, we can’t war drugs. They’re inanimate objects. So what we’re really declaring a war on is society’s most vulnerable. There’s no dignity and justice in that.
Not to mention establishing a Judiciary on the corpses of millions of people killed through slavery and indigenous holocaust or that our system of governance and capitalism is a source of so much disparity and crime itself.. Such hypocrisy.
But hey, nice strawman!
My goodness a nation with a substantially smaller population than the US has fewer murders and rapes? What a surprise.
Stop being intentionally obtuse, it’s based on percentage of populations. The point being is that they treated drug use as a mental health issue rather than a draconian criminal one and as a result, police had more time to focus on real criminals, drug use rates declined, deaths from overdoses declined, crime declined as percentage of population, the spread of HIV declined, and the country generally improved by taking a rational, scientific and humane approach to the issue.
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