Pa Pa wrote:There's a reason why cops in America are called pigs.
People in Oz who don't like cops also call them "pigs". We've been known to adopt more than a few American traditions, though. I had no idea this originated in America. I thought Ned Kelly was the first one to call cops pigs.
Ned Kelly and America's Billy the Kid are both romanticized criminals from by-gone eras. I haven't liked the movies about Ned Kelly nearly as much as those about Billy the Kid, though.
I don't think law enforcement officers are pigs. Unfortunately, I think they're locked into a certain kind of behavior because of procedures laid out to protect the state from lawsuits. In other words, if you interact with the police they aren't there to really serve and protect you, but rather they're serving and protecting the interests of the state. It would be nice if the police were user friendly, as it were, but history and experience has made them what they are today: Agents of the body politic and the first step of a judicial system that doesn't have your interests at its heart.
V/R Dr. Cam
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
I don't think law enforcement officers are pigs. Unfortunately, I think they're locked into a certain kind of behavior because of procedures laid out to protect the state from lawsuits. In other words, if you interact with the police they aren't there to really serve and protect you, but rather they're serving and protecting the interests of the state. It would be nice if the police were user friendly, as it were, but history and experience has made them what they are today: Agents of the body politic and the first step of a judicial system that doesn't have your interests at its heart.
V/R Dr. Cam
I have stood between someone I did not know twice with a gun pointed at me…it was not for “the State”. But I am just a stupid pig…probably did not know what I was doing. Wait, make that three...this one as a home teacher trying to protect her from her drug addict husband.
THis whole thing is representing another tactic common around here---call the LDS names or attempt to offend them by any means necessary (attack their career) and then hope that the LDS person makes an issue about it so we can continue to pile on that guy until we win...
These games are silly. Why are you guys who are so apparently opposed to us playing them?
love ya tons, stem
Love ya tons, Stem
I ain't nuttin'. don't get all worked up on account of me.
stemelbow wrote:THis whole thing is representing another tactic common around here---call the LDS names or attempt to offend them by any means necessary (attack their career) and then hope that the LDS person makes an issue about it so we can continue to pile on that guy until we win...
These games are silly. Why are you guys who are so apparently opposed to us playing them?
Yes you were there to serve the state. How many people have you arrested for having a plant? How many have you forced to the side of the road in order to extort a arbitrary sum of money? How many have you kidnapped for exercising their right to bear arms? How many youth have you harassed for being young? How many for being brown, or worse, poor? How many lives have you hurt? How much money have you collected for your masters?
How many times have you hidden behind 'the law' while you hurt people?
No, you are not a servant of the people. Every time you abduct or steal because someone chooses to smoke pot, or keep their own money from being stolen, or wherein they have hurt no person you act as paid muscle. A thug. A criminal.