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Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 10:28 PM Aug 2012

Here's a lesson about who the police really serve...

If you hear someone breaking down your door with an axe and you call the cops, how long will it take for the cops to respond?

If you interrupt a politician or a corporate executive during a speech at an expensive luncheon, how long will it take for the cops to respond?

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Here's a lesson about who the police really serve... (Original Post) Zalatix Aug 2012 OP
We can protect ourselves, to an extent... fainaent Aug 2012 #1
Yeah, it's even WORSE when the cops actually turn on the citizens. Zalatix Aug 2012 #2
 

fainaent

(51 posts)
1. We can protect ourselves, to an extent...
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 10:37 PM
Aug 2012

from criminal citizens. Protecting ourselves from criminal police or politicians, however... that's a completely different matter.

 

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)
2. Yeah, it's even WORSE when the cops actually turn on the citizens.
Sun Aug 12, 2012, 02:20 AM
Aug 2012

But the fact that the police are always on hand guarding the 1% while you have to wait for them to decide to come protect you when the wolf is at your door, is bad enough.

Let the politicians and banker elite have to call for help like the rest of us.

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