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(4,769 posts)off limits to law enforcement. Stealing, illegal stops, forgoing any restraints that partially identify us as a country (due process, etc.) -- are all justified. I always thought courts were an unnecessary part of our system. I mean, if they they didn't want their money stolen, they shouldn't have had money, right? Same thing for their cars. They knew the risks when they decided to drive! (Thanks to Airplane! for that one.)
Goddamn I hate reactionary thought! BTW, reactionary thought really is an oxymoron. Reactionaries by definition, don't think.
Some may not get this comparison, others will. During the buildup to the Iraq War, I didn't know what upset me more; the actual war, or the reactionaries and their arguments that got us there. (Okay, it was the war, but we wouldn't have had that war if people knew how to think.)
Pretending that because laws are broken, illegal actives by law enforcement are justified is reactionary and dangerous in a semi-free society. Take five or ten minutes, think critically and then apologize for that remark. (I hope.)