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A Few Thoughts on Stop-and-Frisk
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Most of us are pretty well immersed in the mainstream media sort of line about "security", and consider that police are only doing their duty to "randomly" stop citizens in their daily routines and treat them like criminal suspects. Gotta be some bad guys out there who'll get 'found out' this way.
But in fact police efforts like this just get predictable and any 'bad guys' who are really serious about doing harm will come up with a plan to not get caught this way. So the net effect is you really can't expect to accomplish anything significant with this kind of stupid police work. Now I just don't think our movers and shakers are really that stupid, and so I have to ask why they want this kind of police power, or this kind of intimidated citizenry.
I would really like to see the Democratic Party stand up for the people on this one. . . . but no, the blueblood elites of that party consider it their private little operation, and they are going right along with it. What we have is a good cop/bad cop political routine where the citizens are just "progressively" being abused more and more as the years roll by.
Even if the police are mostly black and latino, they are still more willing to rough up the more surely powerless and impoverished than someone who looks like they can afford a lawyer, or literate enough to tell the story of what was done. . . .
And no, racism isn't dead in America, it's just more sophisticated nowadays. We are still running genocidal policies against the third world countries, like banning the use of DDT and subjecting millions of tropical folks to malaria like we were living in the dark ages. I was studying the virus that became known as the AIDS virus in the seventies one way of evaluating immune competence in cancer patients, and I've always had a huge question about how it became primarily a disease in Africa. . . .
But the fact is, we are all "on the list" for being unwanted "useless eaters" in the eyes of our government now. We are going to be expected to work and not retire, and then we'll just be told are "economically inefficient" for health care anymore.
Just a few of my reasons for deciding to give the whole self-reliance and outside-the-box mentality a run.
I recommend the same attitude for minorities of all kinds. Just figure on taking care of yourself, and not depend on the government. Wish it were more reasonable and possible to do, but with our economic arrangements, health care structures, and social interdependence, it's just not really possible. Next thing to try: Social networking aimed at collective solutions for taking care of ourselves.
But in fact police efforts like this just get predictable and any 'bad guys' who are really serious about doing harm will come up with a plan to not get caught this way. So the net effect is you really can't expect to accomplish anything significant with this kind of stupid police work. Now I just don't think our movers and shakers are really that stupid, and so I have to ask why they want this kind of police power, or this kind of intimidated citizenry.
I would really like to see the Democratic Party stand up for the people on this one. . . . but no, the blueblood elites of that party consider it their private little operation, and they are going right along with it. What we have is a good cop/bad cop political routine where the citizens are just "progressively" being abused more and more as the years roll by.
Even if the police are mostly black and latino, they are still more willing to rough up the more surely powerless and impoverished than someone who looks like they can afford a lawyer, or literate enough to tell the story of what was done. . . .
And no, racism isn't dead in America, it's just more sophisticated nowadays. We are still running genocidal policies against the third world countries, like banning the use of DDT and subjecting millions of tropical folks to malaria like we were living in the dark ages. I was studying the virus that became known as the AIDS virus in the seventies one way of evaluating immune competence in cancer patients, and I've always had a huge question about how it became primarily a disease in Africa. . . .
But the fact is, we are all "on the list" for being unwanted "useless eaters" in the eyes of our government now. We are going to be expected to work and not retire, and then we'll just be told are "economically inefficient" for health care anymore.
Just a few of my reasons for deciding to give the whole self-reliance and outside-the-box mentality a run.
I recommend the same attitude for minorities of all kinds. Just figure on taking care of yourself, and not depend on the government. Wish it were more reasonable and possible to do, but with our economic arrangements, health care structures, and social interdependence, it's just not really possible. Next thing to try: Social networking aimed at collective solutions for taking care of ourselves.
carolinajazz
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.....howz about stop and a "Rodney King" beating, of course, only for those who are seriously endangering the lives of innocent people!