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In reply to the discussion: Are we a police state yet? [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)This is 2013 and not protests from another era.
The criminals/haters/thrillkillers/media/rules have changed.
To not play by the rules in 2013 brings about consequences, especially when someone on "our" side says something that is taken the wrong way from "their side" and viceversa.
Ron and Rand Paul and David Duke for example. The NRA/gun people for example.
While maybe there is a purist in the bunch, at the end of the day, nothing any of them say is on "my" side. And NO the broken clock is correct twice a day does not apply here.
Not as long as they want to use the chaos to promote a violent agenda(like the killing of Dr. Tiller and other political coup'd'etats and political or just crazy mass killings or sole asssasssinations.
In the end, those people are taking the law into their own hands, therefore it is anarchy, wanting no rules over any rules and vigilantism and chaos.
Anarchy as a political tool, much like pure communism and pure socialism don't exist.
Never has. Sure those names have been used, but it never existed in a real form.
(Because all the countries called that indeed had a leader who was above it all).
And the Ron Paul's out there use any disent to further their own goal.
I would rather take a policeman enforcing the law over a Zimmerman 100% of the time.
Nobody hired him, nobody voted him in office and I myself don't want his help.
Zimmerman was the police state.
Yes, there are bad cops, but most are not.
Yes, there is a blue wall of silence in NYC.
Yes, there is bad training.
Yes, there are bad things.
BUT-those things can be stopped by proper training and jailing or firing the bad ones.
Zimmerman on the other hand can't be stopped as there are millions of them out there without any control whatsoever.
And in 2013, nerves are frayed.
After all, we can't assemble anywhere at all because of these things.
(and of course the gun people will say fraidycats however, they sleep with guns/bullets to use.)