Cop gets beaten and bystanders dont call for help

[softail-joanie]

Cop gets beaten and bystanders dont call for help-  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXVr4-8RurY

I don't condone or endorse the violence, however cops do this all the time. Hard to say what sparked this, possibilly a lifetime of abuse from the police and he just couldn't take it anymore and snapped. Maybe he built up a life worked hard only to have everything taken away, maybe they killed someone he cared about, It must have been something pretty big for one to take on a losing battle such as this. Police have endless backup and all the money and resorces that they basically stole from those like me and possibally you.

Police: The Domestic Monopoly on Violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8DTPdeFkbw

Many people join the police because they are enamored by images of protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, maintaining order, promoting peace, serving and protecting the people etc. It is also fun to believe in the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Easter Bunny but it is not encouraged to base our future professions on such myths and eventually we must shed them. To believe, in our adult life, that the primary function of police is to perform the aforementioned is to be plagued with a severe form of schizophrenia and a selective understanding of reality. In economics we understand that people act according to incentives and that by thoroughly understanding those incentives the result of those actions can be more or less predictable. If I give a man money to not work, is he likely to continue seeking employment or to abandon such efforts? If pharmaceutical representatives shower a physician with luxurious gifts the more he prescribes a certain medication is likely to prescribe more or less of that medication? If fascistic special interests banks are given cheap currency in the form of Quantitative Easing and then told by the Federal Reserve that they will be given a greater interest rate if they park it in their reserves, are the banks likely to lend that currency out or park it in their reserves? If fascistic special interests banks are told that they can gamble with the people’s currency in the massive derivatives casino, lose trillions, and those funds will still be secured throughout colossal criminal bailouts at taxpayer’s expense are they likely to gamble recklessly in the derivatives casino or be more cautious with the people’s hard earned currency? I hope the trend is clear.

The people do not voluntarily fund the police; rather they are coercively funded through the theft of taxation. Their salaries will always be guaranteed regardless of abuse or cruelty towards the people. Therefore the incentive is not about pleasing the customer in any respect but about pleasing their superiors and political masters. When this is understood then the rise of the police state, the militarization of the police, and the flooding of police brutality videos is not surprising. It is but a natural result of incentivized human action. “Government” is the giant exception to the law of morality and the enormous incentive to waste, inefficiency, and barbarity to which we all must contend. Eliminate the paradigm of systematic predation and all the wretched hydra heads will inevitably die. Stop funding wickedness with your participation and support! What is done violently through aggression is always inferior to that which is done peacefully through voluntary interaction. Good ideas do not require force.

American Police: A Monopoly on Force- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZEp2w1i7XU

Albequrque, NM after the release of a bombshell police video showing helmet cam footage of the police shooting a local homeless man in a NM State Park

Adam Kokesh Interview: "Police are granted a monopoly on violence- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-dpr-xnqeo

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[softail-joanie]

 Some of us (probably more than you think with all the lurkers out there) are interested in what you're up to , and how your life is going.

Laying in bed at the shelter, lights out with the sounds of snoring all around. laptop on top of my lap, after eating a piece of pumplkin pie after sitting in a sona at the Y, all the while trying to come up with ways to keep gas in my car so I can keep this up. Between the shelter, the Y, the grocery and thrift stores, pretty booring actually. oh wait, time to take a couple of pills. This is all very riviting

what shall we discuss now?

[lionrose.7]

Well it is more interesting then what the police are up to in the USA.

You had a Sauna how great is that. Lucky girl

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

do I detect a hint of sarcasm?

Actually it is kinda riveting because it is way beyond the realms of my little universe.

When you say  'shelter'  I get a mental image of a dark grimy place with a narrow stairs and hallways covered in threadbare carpet. Pretty much what is portrayed in the american crime shows we get on telly here.  Is that what it's like?  Have you met many of the other residents? I bet some are real characters.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

And what is pumpkin pie? Do you eat it hot or cold?  what sort of pumpkins are used? We have a gramma pie here. Gramma is a relative of the pumpkin. I haven't had any for years, not since the old grandma died. She used to make a pretty mean rhubarb pie too. Alll home grown vegetables

[aps1080]

Eat it hot.

[softail-joanie]

One of the few things that can relax me, to the point of feeling drunk and stumbling as I come out of there. and one of the things I missed being down around the Portsmouth area. If I could have that sona beside my bed here, I'd never have trouble sleeping.

I'm a lucky girl drunk on heat and sweating, but when i sober up, i'm still the fly one, and I have to come up with fly topics that don't just involve whats going on with me personally. News stories, documentary discussions, the state of humanity, weird and silly fun stuff. A discussion board such as this one, should be able to expand with the topics. If not, then we will have to factor in a whole set of discussion boards from community, conversation, news and help boards to catogory spiciffic boards like music, movies and TV shows, or Kitchen conversation.

Is that what it's like?  Have you met many of the other residents? I bet some are real characters.

I imagine it would be like jail, if I was ever put in with the general population, in a heated cell with a padding on the bed and allowed to wear clothing. I'm on the bottom bunk, currently with no one above me, that could change. It's kinda nice to not be up in that camper by myself all the time, but not so nice on the privacy end of it. I haven't been here much longer than a week, still kinda new to the place.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

oh you're in a shared room? I didn't know that. Bummer.

What do you call a camper? I mean is it like a tent on wheels, or a van like a kombi?

I love saunas. Years ago I lived in a cold climate, snow in winter, freezing winds etc. A couple of times a week a friend and I would go and do laps in the heated pool then sit in the sauna for half an hour. You could walk out of there and in to the snow wearing just a t-shirt and not feel the cold at all.

And what do you mean by 'the fly one" ?

sorry for all the questions,  I'm just trying to understand the american lingo

[softail-joanie]

oh, Pumpkin pie, eat it warm or cool, never too hot of cold. put whipped topping on it. has a cinnimon taste to it. I like it, some don't I offered some to the lady beside me, she hasn't had any yet. I wouldn't wait too long on that whipped topping, will go bad quickly if not refrigerated.

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

Is that like the whipped cream in a can?

I see it a lot on american movies. I know we can get it here, but I don't think it's a staple like it seems to be in the US. 

I better go do some housework before hubby gets home. Nice chatting with you Joanie, take care.

[polksaladallie]

I've made pumpkin pie.  It is a dessert and is eaten cool, with cream or icecream.