Cop City

Cop City

 

 

The alleged cost of thistraining center is put at 90 million dollars which may be the only thing to becritical of, if it weren’t that we spend hundreds of thousands times more moneyon incredibly bigger threats to all life on earth but especially in the usa. Forinstance, we spend more than two billion – TWO FRIGGIN BILLION! – every day onwhat is called a defense budget which is like a rapist defending himself fromhis victims.

 

And if this deal bettertrains police and firefighters to bring more safety to all of us the cost mighteven be worthwhile. But first the bigger deal, which is making the police thescapegoat for a corrupt, debased, bigoted immoral society that spends trillionsfor war, billions for pets, leaves hundreds of thousands without shelter andclaims world leadership while being the all-time greatest threat to humanity.

 

Many police are incompetentand need to be replaced, at the very least, but the overwhelming majorityperform on the public behalf and just because my neighborhood or yours sucks isnot reason to blame that on the police. They are not vigilantes but stateemployees and unless we transform that state to one that is truly democraticany flaws on them are because we have not yet been capable of changing themurderous state! Police do not create low-income high crime areas, thepolitical economics of capitalism do so and that is what needs to be dealtwith.

 

 Unless you are in the habit of calling Girl Scoutsor Black Lives Matter or Catholic Sisters of Charity if your car is stolen,your store robbed, your home burglarized, you hear a gunshot or scream in thenight or some other form of what makes American reality for so many (violence,weapons and the profits they create) you are among the majority. We just had aslight decline in the murder rate and that means close to 19 thousand  americans were murdered last year! As long asthat is material reality and not some comic book fable should we expect to havea police force composed of choir boys and girls to sing songs of mourning forthe bereaved and suffering? What can we expect from professionals hired toprotect us from those extremes while also dealing with tons of responsibilityfor more everyday needs like traffic – where we also kill 100 people on an averageday. All of that is next to nothing compared to what we do to people in foreigncountries whom we slaughter directly with our own forces or finance governmentsand militaries owned and operated by American capital and paid for with ourtaxes.

 

We are devoting hundreds ofbillions of dollars to murdering Russians, Palestinians and more, whilesurrounding Russia and China with our military and navy while screaming about Russianand Chinese threats to us all. Hello? Please, get with reality. Most Americansare served by the police and while too many are abused that happens across theboard.  As a small example there areteachers who shouldn’t teach and medical workers who should not attend toillness but the overwhelming majority of teachers and health care workers, likethe police, are dedicated and highly competent public servants made to looklike lower forms of life by an economic system that rewards theft, murder,violence and contempt for humanity while worshipping weapons and animals.

 

We need to stop dumping onminorities as being guilty for the atrocity of our society and culture whichunder minority control thinks far far more of profits and murder than of manyof our people, and that is not because of the police any more than our foreignpolicy of mass murder is all because of evil soldiers. Please face reality andsoon and build a better relation between the public and the police rather thanbecome enemy camps as too many seem to support. All Americans will be betterserved by police who are treated with respect by those who employ them and aslong as we tolerate a rich minority who are always served by all facets of thestate instead of all of us it is our responsibility to bring about radicalchange. Meantime, better trained police and firefighters will be beneficial tous all at least temporarily.

 

 

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