Cops: Public Servants or Fascist Pigs? (Part 1)

It was not many years ago when I con­sid­ered myself a sup­porter of
“law enforce­ment.” (I made dona­tions, had the F.O.P. and Sheriff’s
depart­ment stick­ers and every­thing.) Cops were, I believed, the
good guys, pro­tect­ing the inno­cent and impos­ing jus­tice upon
evil­do­ers. Oh sure, I knew there was cor­rup­tion here and there, and
scat­tered exam­ples of police abuse–a few “bad apples” in the ranks–
– –but all in all, I thought the cops were the good guys.

Now I’m really darn embar­rassed that I ever thought that.

This will be the first in a series of mes­sages where we exam­ine the
ques­tion, are the Amer­i­can “law enforcers” of today noble pub­lic
ser­vants, or despi­ca­ble fas­cist pigs?

First, we must define our terms. For exam­ple, some­one hav­ing a
short tem­per, or exer­cis­ing bad judg­ment, even repeat­edly, is not
nec­es­sar­ily a fas­cist pig. No, a cop’s level of “fas­cismo,” if you
will, must be mea­sured by some­thing other than just being stu­pid or
even mali­cious. To truly be a fas­cist, a cop must demon­strate that
he has the fas­cist mind­set. So let’s define what that is.

A NON-fascist cop, when he looks out at the world, would see lots
of good peo­ple, whom he would want to pro­tect, and would never want
to harm, intim­i­date, or even incon­ve­nience unnec­es­sar­ily. His goal
would be to find the nasty peo­ple in the world, and see to it that
they are pre­vented from harm­ing any of the decent people.

A FASCIST cop, on the other hand, would view every­one as his
infe­rior, to be con­trolled, inter­ro­gated, or even abused at will.
He sees him­self, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of “author­ity,” as hav­ing the
right to forcibly impose his will on any­one he wants, when­ever he
wants, for any rea­son (or no rea­son) and the right to use out­right
vio­lence against any who do not obey his every whim.

So, in this mes­sage and the ones to fol­low, we will exam­ine
exam­ples of police con­duct in this coun­try, and rate the level of
“fas­cismo” demon­strated by Amer­i­can “law enforce­ment.” What we
won’t bother look­ing at are things like a car chase which ends with
a cop with too much adren­a­line in his blood, or a cop shoot­ing
some­one with some­what ques­tion­able jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. No, we are
look­ing for ATTITUDE. The goal is to deter­mine if Amer­i­can cops
today think like defend­ers of jus­tice, or like fas­cist pigs.

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As you may know, the feds now do inter­nal “check­points,” any­where
they want within a hun­dred miles of the bor­der. If you haven’t yet
heard of this Orwellian absur­dity, here are the basics:

http://www.aclu.org/priva…

(Yes, I know the ACLU is very selec­tive about which rights it cares
about. It fights hard to defend the First Amend­ment, while fight­ing
hard to VIOLATE the Sec­ond Amend­ment. But their site gives a good
sum­mary of the “Con­sti­tu­tion free zones.”)

With the “check­point” infor­ma­tion in mind, here is the spe­cific
inci­dent we’re con­sid­er­ing this time, with our “fas­cis­tome­ters” at
the ready:

http://www.youtube.com/wa…

Once you’ve watched the entire video (it’s less than nine min­utes),
con­sider a few things:

1) First of all, would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig take part in
these war­rant­less, sus­pi­cion­less searches at all? Well, no. To
think you have the right to stop and inter­ro­gate any­one who hap­pens
to drive down a road, and the right to search through his stuff, is
a clas­sic symp­tom of being a fas­cist pig.

2) Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig view someone’s reliance on
his Fourth Amend­ment rights (to not be sub­jected to an unrea­son­able
and unjus­ti­fied search) as a REASON to search his car? Put another
way, would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig think that some­one must
be a crim­i­nal if he doesn’t want to vol­un­teer to let some jack­boot
rum­mage through his stuff? No. Again, this is a clas­sic symp­tom of
some­one with a fas­cist pig world view. (Note that in the clip, the
guy describes how the fas­cist pigs at one point admit­ted that
every­thing the guy went through was because he wouldn’t answer a
question.)

3) Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig FAKE “prob­a­ble cause” in
order to get around that pesky Fourth Amend­ment? No. They had no
rea­son to sus­pect anything–to stop him at all, or to search him
after the stop–and then they LIED about it to make up an excuse to
do a search. Clas­sic fas­cist pig behavior.

4) Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig smash someone’s car
win­dows, taser him, and forcibly extract him from his car, with­out
ANY “prob­a­ble cause” to think the per­son had com­mit­ted a crime?
Again, no. (If you’re find­ing these ques­tions dif­fi­cult to answer,
please move to Cuba.)

5) Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig grind someone’s face into
bro­ken glass, throw him to the ground, stomp on his head, and
oth­er­wise assault him, when the per­son is unarmed and not
resist­ing, and when there is still no evi­dence that the guy had
com­mit­ted any crime? No. (The clip doesn’t say whether the cops
ever knew that the guy is a pastor.)

6) Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig openly delight in some­one
else’s mis­ery and suf­fer­ing, while the per­son is hand­cuffed and
bleed­ing pro­fusely, mock­ing and insult­ing the guy, when there was
still NO EVIDENCE that the guy had com­mit­ted any crime? No. (I
could make another item about not let­ting the guy go to the
bath­room, but I’m try­ing to keep this rel­a­tively short.)

7) Here’s an impor­tant one: Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig
QUIETLY STAND BY while his fel­low “offi­cers” did what is described
above? NO. If this was a case of one or two “bad apples” in law
enforce­ment, wouldn’t some other cop there have tried to stop it,
or at least com­plained about it after­wards? So how often have you
ever seen that? Where are the “good cops” speak­ing out about this
stuff?

Would any­one who is NOT a fas­cist pig want to pro­ceed to
pros­e­cute the VICTIM of all the abuse I described above, despite
the fact that there is STILL no evi­dence that he com­mit­ted a crime?
No.

Okay, so what’s the ver­dict for this exam­ple? Well, if the story
above is an accu­rate reflec­tion of what “law enforce­ment” in this
coun­try is like today, then Amer­i­can cops are indeed fas­cist pigs,
who deserve our utmost con­tempt and con­dem­na­tion. (And if it is NOT
an accu­rate reflec­tion of the atti­tudes and behav­ior of the police
in this coun­try, where are the GOOD cops speak­ing out against this?)

In clos­ing, I’d like to say the fol­low­ing to Mr. C. Diaz, Mr. B.
Grif­fiths, and Mr. E. Gomez, and any other Nazi swine who
par­tic­i­pated in the inci­dent described above. If some day you pick
the wrong tar­get for your Gestapo crap, and the guy blows your damn
fas­cist pig heads off, the world will be a bet­ter place.

Oh, and have a nice day.

Larken Rose
http://www.larkenrose.com