The evil Blue line

I understand that there is a cultural love of police, even a holdout view of police as they may have appeared in Father Knows Best or Leave it to Beaver, but the friendly neighborhood policeman, who is good, trustworthy, and would never do wrong is and probably always has been a myth. 

For those who are still clinging to the unfortunate idea that cops are somehow or sometimes good, here is yet another in a never ending list of acts of pure evil by the boys in blue: 

http://wendymcelroy.com/news.php?item.2847.3

I liked to the blog post, which itself contains links to the story, because the commentary is worthwhile. The gist for those who need some reason to click through, is that the police decided in their presumptions of omniscience and omnibenevolence, that tackling then tasing the guy who just finished risking his own life to save the  lives of at least a half dozen other people, getting severely burned in the process and probably suffering lung damage as well, was not only the desirable but the only necessary action. 

Of course the guy had it coming.. so the cops claim. After all he stuttered while under great stress, and after being told to essentially F-off, he turned to walk away.. 

I grew up around police. Not just like everyone does, but being considered somewhat of an insider, one of the boys because I had a parent who was in law enforcement and many many relatives who also fed themselves at the "public" trough this way. I still am related to active law enforcement (what a bizarre misleading label!!) personnel. Nothing I can do about blood or other people's marriages.. The point is that I was privy to many many scenes where the cops bragged about their exploits. They would tell stories trying to impress each other, and likely folks like me who are supposedly impressionable boys who would envy the cops.. They would tell how they would stop long haired guys just because they had long hair and threaten them until the cops could search the car. They would tell how they would lie, cheat, and steal without any worry of being caught because they are cops. The stories were told in a funny way, and I recall one guy who was better than most (kind of like being a good Stazi.. ) telling a story about pulling  a guy over for the crime of having long hair, and thinking to himself that the guy could have been the cop ten years before.. At least that one time the cop let the guy go for a misplaced nostalgia. (Not that the guy pulled over actually did anything wrong..)

All of which is my usual long winded way of saying that I come by this well grounded belief naturally, and with overwhelming evidence. Sadly the first accusation is almost alway of bias, under some assumption that the conclusion precedes all evidence. This could not be any less accurate. 

So do yourself a favor, avoid police. If related or friends with them, distance yourself. There simply is no such thing as a good cop. Remember his job relies upon finding you guilty of something, and as I once pointed out to a DMV employee when asked "Are you living in the US legally?": it is not possible to live in the US legally! There are too many laws, too many contradictory laws, and absolutely no aspect of our lives is not regulated in some fashion. This is the very epitome of a police state. 

To make the point ever more clear, I will ask a question which I ought to trademark, if I believed in such things: Can you find a single activity which is not in some way regulated in the US? 

I have been asking the same question for at least a decade and thus far no one, neither conservative, nor liberal, not libertarian nor avid statist, has ever offered anything which was even close to being in doubt, much less any example of some unregulated action.  

I would honestly love to be proved wrong..