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In reply to the discussion: We must NOT buy into the narrative that a cop's life is worth more than any other [View all]liberalmike27
(2,479 posts)A lot of people here realize that the police are the half of the poor, they hire to protect the rich, and their property. Many of us have seen a lot of laws passed, and the police tasked to harass us, to enforce them, for things we feel should not be illegal in the first place.
The whole "Drug War" is very much at fault in a lot of this. It amounts to a wholesale harassment of the poorest people, who often find themselves in the trade. Usually it's because there is no economic activity, no hope, or no plan to find their way out of bad neighborhoods, and worse situations within the hoods.
When the rulers task the police in attack roles, against people, groups, such as black people in particular, then hatred ensues. It's pretty simple really. Most of us wouldn't like the fact someone just gunned down two random cops, two that might have actually been good ones, since one was Asian, and another looked to be dark-skinned. That said, we can also under the anger of an oppressed and harassed people.
The police, and their leaders, and DeBlasio should along with condemning these acts, seek to weed out bad, racist cops. Cops who are good, should help, because it's those cops that are the problem, not leaders who seek to fix the problem. They are like a virus in the organism. And you get rid of the virus, you don't protect it and keep it in your ranks.
Inevitably this type of attack was sure to come. Likewise, wider societal attacks on powerful figures, politicians, radio hosts, corporate and non-corporate donors who add to our misery will eventually start occurring too. Understand, I'm not encouraging it, but it's just an easy to see Sociological reaction, a next-step to persecution en-masse.
The guy who killed the cops? He was fringe, on the edge, already disenfranchised, and upset. There is an element of the downtrodden that is like that, that is always around, scurrying unavoidably around the edges of society. They are out there, and they usually react at some point, when there seems to be no one out there trying to address the obvious problems, thus no hope for things getting better.
It's where the Kennedy saying comes from--"I don't want to be a rich man, living in a poor country." He understood, that under this situation, and the inevitable oppression needed to keep the rich safe, that this type of thing would start occurring, and that they become targets. And it's gotten pretty bad, when even the intense "rags to riches" media propaganda, can't keep someone feeling hope--as it's second to the amount of MIC propaganda.