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When "Conspiracy Nuts" are right. Militarized Police.
11 years ago
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So... Shit's been pretty nutty recently all around the world and at home, huh? Or are you more interested in some pop-star diva flashing her muff in public?
As a bit of a divergent-ish/global/outside the box thinker I notice a lot of things a lot of people are completely oblivious to. One of those things is what is happening in the world around us as whole and on a localized level as well.
Now for the term: "Conspiracy Nuts." I mean people that are labeled as such because they are more aware of what is or may be going on "behind the scenes" and the world around them that isn't in the spotlight for all to see... I do NOT mean the people that think lizard aliens are running some secret organization that wants to harvest humans for their tasty meats; those people are just plain old nuts, like super chunky peanut butter… NUTS.
A particularly unsettling thing I hear often enough is, "It cannot/will not happen here." Basically referring to something horrible that may have happened elsewhere, or at a previous time, apparently not having a remote possibility of happening "here." AKA wherever here is at the time, because said person doesn't want to question their false illusion of freedom or safety.
History can, will, and does repeat itself, sometimes over and over again. If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. History professors or anyone that has lived though said "thing that cannot happen" will usually tell you this right off the bat.
Now, while I can understand to an extent, that our world can be a dark and often times depressing place, it doesn't mean you should escape reality while trying to live in it at the same time, all the time. Sometimes you really need to stop and look up and around yourself, figuratively and literally. I've been around people on Geological Survey and camping trips that have lived in a big city all their lives and always seemed bummed out until they lost cell phone reception and suddenly noticed the beautiful stars in the sky they had never REALLY seen before (seriously, I had never met a person that had never actually seen the stars before, let alone a group of them)... To the point that a group of these "big city dwellers" stayed up all night lying on their backs staring at the stars. Most of them described it as a spiritual experience the next day and were suddenly all happy, if not a bit tired.
Most people are so busy with the minutia of their everyday lives that they never stop and look at the world around them, as if they have blinders on and are running down a linear path. Even getting annoyed and downright pissed off if you so much as try to bring the real world into their fragile little constructed realities. I often hear things like "politics are for politicians" or "I don't like politics, they are depressing and better suited for politicians" or "The police will protect me" or "That was then, this is now" or "It would never happen here" or "That just sounds like a silly conspiracy, now let me update my Facebook friends about where I am and send them pictures of what I'm eating." History shows us that when people in general have these types of thoughts, guess what? ... History starts repeating again, and then they are suddenly surprised they didn't see it coming from a mile away like the people they so often label as "conspiracy nuts."
Something I have mentioned to or pointed out to people is the whole bullshit “war on terrorism” and that taking your shoes off at an airport and getting an anal cavity search by a dumb high-school drop-out TSA agent is not going to stop someone from blowing up your plane if they really wanted to. I doubt a shampoo bottle blew up the plane over the Ukraine, as I’m pretty sure the missile fired from the ground is responsible for that one.
Or the bullshit “War on Drugs.” Have people not learned ANYTHING from the MASSIVE FAILURE of prohibition in the 1920s-30s? You outlaw a “sin or vice” item people really like, and guess what? The criminals happily step in to fill said void at an increased cost to the consumer, and we are still dealing with Mob bosses and criminal shit dating back to the 1920s still in the 2000s because of that short period of time where booze was banned. The police don’t need tanks and military training to “combat” drugs… No… If a person wants to shoot smack into both their eyeballs in the privacy of their own home, without hurting someone else in the process, fucking let them! I’m so tired of all this nanny state crap. Politicians thinking they know what’s better for society at large just so the Police can have an excuse to crash through buildings in big expensive military equipment to take a dudes dime bag of pot (that they more likely planted there when they couldn’t find any ‘real’ drugs) and put him in a for profit prison for life.
These people that believe the “war on terror” or “war on drugs” is working are ALL morons.
These are the same people that might actually believe the old US propaganda films that ducking and covering under a desk will save them from a nuclear attack. Just like they may believe locking a door and cowering in a corner will save them from a madman with a gun in a gun-free zone… Or that the police will suddenly materialize and protect them from harm in a dark alley, or even broad daylight somewhere.
Politicians and the media even have a term for these types of people; they call them “Low Information Types.” Like people that vote one party constantly because that is what they have always done, without doing a single bit of research on available candidates (this is the reason there are “ELECT SO AND SO” signs all over or attack ads and such)… Or in the media, these are the people that only watch left or right leaning news channels because said people and channels label “the other guys” as the “bad guys.”
There has been no time that I can remember in post civil war American history that people have been so divided. At the same time, these same people on both sides were, up until recently, saying “It can’t happen here.” Any time I mentioned that a majority of the police in America are now a damn militarized, standing Army with fully automatic military weapons, and military vehicles! Jack-booted thugs with no faces or names to follow their terrible conduct amongst “we the people” and treated as if they are above the law and above social reproach. The tanks are driving down the streets, and have been for nearly 20 years now, you just never see it outside of youtube because they ban or censor the media with an iron fist, or beat the shit out of or confiscate the cameras of everyone they see…
This is YET another reason why NET NEUTRALITY is so fucking IMPORTANT!
And here we are now, where some people are finally seeing just how bad things have become in the last few decades. Before the last few days, I was just another “conspiracy nut” whenever I talked about the shit going on right now.
I have a little list of things people NEED to be talking about and pushing for:
-The police in America HAVE TO BE DE-MILITARIZED! There are no exceptions. They are a standing army, and are not protecting or serving anyone but private and political interests.
-The ENTIRE U.S. FOR PROFIT PRISION SYSTEM needs to be outright BANNED and made illegal in every way possible! Non-violent, victimless offenders need to be given community service like many other countries do, or outright left alone, instead of having their lives ruined and thrown in jail at the tax-payers’ expense.
-I also support police wearing cameras at all times, recording EVERYTHING unless they are on private property and the owner or residents of said private property ask them not to be recording. (This alone would help with everything from police brutality being reduced, to false lawsuits on the police being reduced, Helping save the taxpayers even more money. Win Win.) There are already cameras on every street corner so people should feel safer knowing a Police officer will be less likely to beat their head in for looking at them funny while they walk down a public street.
-I also believe that all LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) federal and local alike be randomly drug tested, including steroid use, and thoroughly psychologically evaluated and background checked every year from the lowest ranks to the top ranks, no exceptions!
-They also need to give police in high stress areas more paid vacation time so they can calm the fuck down.
-There also need to be safe ways for “The Good Cops” to report “The Bad Cops.” Police corruption needs to be taken seriously and needs to be investigated by an INDEPENDENT civilian source, NOT by other Law Enforcement Agencies that are or can be just as corrupt. (Who watches the watchmen?)
- And (“Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997, that authorizes the Department of Defense to transfer excess MILITARY property to state and local law enforcement agencies. Preference is given to “counter-drug” and “counter-terrorism” activities. Types of Property that can be obtained: Body armor, night vision equipment, APC's, aircraft, first aid supplies, weapons, surveillance equipment, Kevlar helmets, gas masks and filters, vehicles, etc.”) <-- This whole section needs to be ABOLISHED, GONE, BYE-BYE. Hell, axe the NDAA and the Patriot Act all together! The Anti-2nd amendment types constantly say “we don’t want weapons of war on our streets.” Well then, stop letting the police get said weapons of war, you fucking morons! Police should only be allowed access to the same weapons that non-police civilians are, period, end of story.
-And lastly, there needs to be a return of C.O.P. Or “Citizens on Patrol” or “Community Oriented Policing” or “Community Outreach Program” This is a throwback to when police used to “walk” a beat and interact with the community at large. Even if it is purely done with old retired police officers that want to show that not all police are big scary bad guys with machineguns and KKK memberships. Hell do like my city does and put the fat and overweight police on bicycle duty till they can pass the physical course again. This needs to come back, because Police whizzing around in squad cars at high speed, making their monetary quota of speeders is not making communities safer or increasing any sort of respect for police. Right now a majority of people in the U.S.A. (at least according to a bunch of polls) are more scared of the police than they are of criminals. That should be a huge fuckin’ red flag!
Not all police officers are bad guys that want to re-arrange your face for being a minority, but there is a SERIOUS problem with certain police and police departments at the moment in America.
Police are CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT… NOT soldiers of war!
For “we the people” to respect the police, we need the police to respect “we the people.”
...
As for "conspiracy nuts" sometimes they are actually worth listening to, because they may know more than you do.
As a bit of a divergent-ish/global/outside the box thinker I notice a lot of things a lot of people are completely oblivious to. One of those things is what is happening in the world around us as whole and on a localized level as well.
Now for the term: "Conspiracy Nuts." I mean people that are labeled as such because they are more aware of what is or may be going on "behind the scenes" and the world around them that isn't in the spotlight for all to see... I do NOT mean the people that think lizard aliens are running some secret organization that wants to harvest humans for their tasty meats; those people are just plain old nuts, like super chunky peanut butter… NUTS.
A particularly unsettling thing I hear often enough is, "It cannot/will not happen here." Basically referring to something horrible that may have happened elsewhere, or at a previous time, apparently not having a remote possibility of happening "here." AKA wherever here is at the time, because said person doesn't want to question their false illusion of freedom or safety.
History can, will, and does repeat itself, sometimes over and over again. If we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. History professors or anyone that has lived though said "thing that cannot happen" will usually tell you this right off the bat.
Now, while I can understand to an extent, that our world can be a dark and often times depressing place, it doesn't mean you should escape reality while trying to live in it at the same time, all the time. Sometimes you really need to stop and look up and around yourself, figuratively and literally. I've been around people on Geological Survey and camping trips that have lived in a big city all their lives and always seemed bummed out until they lost cell phone reception and suddenly noticed the beautiful stars in the sky they had never REALLY seen before (seriously, I had never met a person that had never actually seen the stars before, let alone a group of them)... To the point that a group of these "big city dwellers" stayed up all night lying on their backs staring at the stars. Most of them described it as a spiritual experience the next day and were suddenly all happy, if not a bit tired.
Most people are so busy with the minutia of their everyday lives that they never stop and look at the world around them, as if they have blinders on and are running down a linear path. Even getting annoyed and downright pissed off if you so much as try to bring the real world into their fragile little constructed realities. I often hear things like "politics are for politicians" or "I don't like politics, they are depressing and better suited for politicians" or "The police will protect me" or "That was then, this is now" or "It would never happen here" or "That just sounds like a silly conspiracy, now let me update my Facebook friends about where I am and send them pictures of what I'm eating." History shows us that when people in general have these types of thoughts, guess what? ... History starts repeating again, and then they are suddenly surprised they didn't see it coming from a mile away like the people they so often label as "conspiracy nuts."
Something I have mentioned to or pointed out to people is the whole bullshit “war on terrorism” and that taking your shoes off at an airport and getting an anal cavity search by a dumb high-school drop-out TSA agent is not going to stop someone from blowing up your plane if they really wanted to. I doubt a shampoo bottle blew up the plane over the Ukraine, as I’m pretty sure the missile fired from the ground is responsible for that one.
Or the bullshit “War on Drugs.” Have people not learned ANYTHING from the MASSIVE FAILURE of prohibition in the 1920s-30s? You outlaw a “sin or vice” item people really like, and guess what? The criminals happily step in to fill said void at an increased cost to the consumer, and we are still dealing with Mob bosses and criminal shit dating back to the 1920s still in the 2000s because of that short period of time where booze was banned. The police don’t need tanks and military training to “combat” drugs… No… If a person wants to shoot smack into both their eyeballs in the privacy of their own home, without hurting someone else in the process, fucking let them! I’m so tired of all this nanny state crap. Politicians thinking they know what’s better for society at large just so the Police can have an excuse to crash through buildings in big expensive military equipment to take a dudes dime bag of pot (that they more likely planted there when they couldn’t find any ‘real’ drugs) and put him in a for profit prison for life.
These people that believe the “war on terror” or “war on drugs” is working are ALL morons.
These are the same people that might actually believe the old US propaganda films that ducking and covering under a desk will save them from a nuclear attack. Just like they may believe locking a door and cowering in a corner will save them from a madman with a gun in a gun-free zone… Or that the police will suddenly materialize and protect them from harm in a dark alley, or even broad daylight somewhere.
Politicians and the media even have a term for these types of people; they call them “Low Information Types.” Like people that vote one party constantly because that is what they have always done, without doing a single bit of research on available candidates (this is the reason there are “ELECT SO AND SO” signs all over or attack ads and such)… Or in the media, these are the people that only watch left or right leaning news channels because said people and channels label “the other guys” as the “bad guys.”
There has been no time that I can remember in post civil war American history that people have been so divided. At the same time, these same people on both sides were, up until recently, saying “It can’t happen here.” Any time I mentioned that a majority of the police in America are now a damn militarized, standing Army with fully automatic military weapons, and military vehicles! Jack-booted thugs with no faces or names to follow their terrible conduct amongst “we the people” and treated as if they are above the law and above social reproach. The tanks are driving down the streets, and have been for nearly 20 years now, you just never see it outside of youtube because they ban or censor the media with an iron fist, or beat the shit out of or confiscate the cameras of everyone they see…
This is YET another reason why NET NEUTRALITY is so fucking IMPORTANT!
And here we are now, where some people are finally seeing just how bad things have become in the last few decades. Before the last few days, I was just another “conspiracy nut” whenever I talked about the shit going on right now.
I have a little list of things people NEED to be talking about and pushing for:
-The police in America HAVE TO BE DE-MILITARIZED! There are no exceptions. They are a standing army, and are not protecting or serving anyone but private and political interests.
-The ENTIRE U.S. FOR PROFIT PRISION SYSTEM needs to be outright BANNED and made illegal in every way possible! Non-violent, victimless offenders need to be given community service like many other countries do, or outright left alone, instead of having their lives ruined and thrown in jail at the tax-payers’ expense.
-I also support police wearing cameras at all times, recording EVERYTHING unless they are on private property and the owner or residents of said private property ask them not to be recording. (This alone would help with everything from police brutality being reduced, to false lawsuits on the police being reduced, Helping save the taxpayers even more money. Win Win.) There are already cameras on every street corner so people should feel safer knowing a Police officer will be less likely to beat their head in for looking at them funny while they walk down a public street.
-I also believe that all LEOs (Law Enforcement Officers) federal and local alike be randomly drug tested, including steroid use, and thoroughly psychologically evaluated and background checked every year from the lowest ranks to the top ranks, no exceptions!
-They also need to give police in high stress areas more paid vacation time so they can calm the fuck down.
-There also need to be safe ways for “The Good Cops” to report “The Bad Cops.” Police corruption needs to be taken seriously and needs to be investigated by an INDEPENDENT civilian source, NOT by other Law Enforcement Agencies that are or can be just as corrupt. (Who watches the watchmen?)
- And (“Section 1033 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 1997, that authorizes the Department of Defense to transfer excess MILITARY property to state and local law enforcement agencies. Preference is given to “counter-drug” and “counter-terrorism” activities. Types of Property that can be obtained: Body armor, night vision equipment, APC's, aircraft, first aid supplies, weapons, surveillance equipment, Kevlar helmets, gas masks and filters, vehicles, etc.”) <-- This whole section needs to be ABOLISHED, GONE, BYE-BYE. Hell, axe the NDAA and the Patriot Act all together! The Anti-2nd amendment types constantly say “we don’t want weapons of war on our streets.” Well then, stop letting the police get said weapons of war, you fucking morons! Police should only be allowed access to the same weapons that non-police civilians are, period, end of story.
-And lastly, there needs to be a return of C.O.P. Or “Citizens on Patrol” or “Community Oriented Policing” or “Community Outreach Program” This is a throwback to when police used to “walk” a beat and interact with the community at large. Even if it is purely done with old retired police officers that want to show that not all police are big scary bad guys with machineguns and KKK memberships. Hell do like my city does and put the fat and overweight police on bicycle duty till they can pass the physical course again. This needs to come back, because Police whizzing around in squad cars at high speed, making their monetary quota of speeders is not making communities safer or increasing any sort of respect for police. Right now a majority of people in the U.S.A. (at least according to a bunch of polls) are more scared of the police than they are of criminals. That should be a huge fuckin’ red flag!
Not all police officers are bad guys that want to re-arrange your face for being a minority, but there is a SERIOUS problem with certain police and police departments at the moment in America.
Police are CIVILIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT… NOT soldiers of war!
For “we the people” to respect the police, we need the police to respect “we the people.”
...
As for "conspiracy nuts" sometimes they are actually worth listening to, because they may know more than you do.
There is a bill now being introduced by Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia to stop the militarization of police forces. If the bill isn't worded in such a way that it's full of loopholes to weasel out of actually doing anything, it will be 100% worth supporting.