I know my comment was provocative, and I guessed that it would ruffle a few feathers here. I have also noted that there are numerous veteran members here whose posts, photos and comments suggest more independently-minded cultural influence. I don't want to get into politics here, and I won't, I'm just angry as hell that "law enforcement" officials rarely spend most of their time enforcing laws of no social merit, have been serving nobody but themselves, and then I'm supposed to kiss their ass for the "risk" they take from behind riot gear, tasers, nightsticks, machine guns, and military-grade armored trucks.
Typically I try to avoid "stomping on" anybody's "dick" as Warren said (hello, Warren), but I've seen too much of the reverse going on against innocent civilians. Therefore, if you don't want your dick stomped on, then you need to keep it in your pants. Janosh's story of police indifference to what happened to him triggered the memory of how police treated my mother when her home was invaded and she lost generations of precious, and very sentimental jewelry. They told her this: "your house appears too valuable to be this close to the road", as if her loss was her fault for having a nice house, an invitation of a sort for a thief to walk in! She was home at the time, napping on the couch, and had she come to and discovered the theives were present, her life would have been endangered! Human empathy and police work don't seem to go very well together, by the experience of my family. No effort was made to help my mother recover her precious family heirlooms, and she never got them back.
The highest-paid cops in New York State serve the primary purpose of fleecing passing motorists in towns which are much too big, but much too greedy to pay for their own police department, forcing all State taxpayers to subsidize additional hires so that they can pick up their slack, and their enforcement policies are nothing if not capricious. I won't offend a whole town for backing such capricious and greedy revenue raising, but if I could avoid having to drive through that on local town I would still have a squeaky-clean license.
Warren, when the US Constitutional 1st Amendment is repealed, and free speech becomes a crime, that's when I'll become a source of "job security" to your brethren in blue. I despise rapists, murderers, liars, thieves, embezzlers, and bullies, and regarding at least the latter 5 there has been way too much of such animals being dressed in uniforms, and given the power of the law. I am a highly empathetic man, and that is what has contributed to the anger which I often feel compelled to express in cyberspace. I believe in peaceful solutions to social problems, although it's only natural that violent outrages will provoke less than peaceful words at times. However, I cannot deny that my last comment went on ahead of my better judgement, which I regret. I am much too educated to really believe in the philosophy of bigots.
The reason why I am still around is that more who are on this forum have impressed me as being people who aren't just pipe smokers, but also of remarkable patience (a trait which I wish to develop more in myself, please don't doubt that), artistic interest, intelligence, and often very well-read. For such people I have only the highest respect and appreciation, and being aware that even these people may take offense when I fly off the handle, I'll take special care to avoid this, even if I have to turn away from news that would otherwise trigger such rage.
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