To Protect and Serve
Noble — Mon, 04/20/2009 - 03:40
Carlos Miller shares a chilling video today of an off-duty police officer bragging, very drunkenly, about his latest murder to a laughing, receptive audience at a bar.
Recently, Miller provided a 24 hour glimpse into police misconduct, highlighting the work of the "Injustice in Seattle" Twitter feed and struck a real nerve that brought in many comments from all sides. Personally, I think "Misconduct" is such a soft term for (in this case) child molesters and murderers.
To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.
This is hard for me to watch.
Polly (not verified) — Mon, 04/20/2009 - 07:49I think they set up my
Jamesm (not verified) — Mon, 04/20/2009 - 08:10