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Listening to some of my libertarian friends, I feel I am being asked to conclude:
So, America is a racist police state. And the best you can do about it is to hate and denounce government and its organs.
I doubt this is an appropriate way of looking at the USA.
In its assiduousness to promote the police state theme, tabloid libertarianism strikes me as implausible. I can't see any constructive efforts on the part of (too many) libertarians to understand the full picture, all sides involved.
I continue to assume that America is a great country to live in for its citizens, not least because America's police are working hard to help and protect all Americans, succeeding therein countless times every day.
Any reflection of that in the libertarian sterotypes? Any consideration of the fact that a police officer is confronted with difficult-to-handle extreme and border cases - sometimes several times a day - that an ordinary citizen may never encounter during her entire life time? Any appreciation that officers are almost permanently in danger while pursuing their proper duties, in particular being targets of persistent "racism" by virtue of their office?
No, the police are part of the state, so they must be evil.
Be this as it may, I'm glad to be living in a free country, where with conscious enjoyment I do feel free.
An important part of my freedom is this friendly and cooperative, mutually trusting and appreciative attitude between citizens and the police, and my being free from the presumption that something must be wrong with me owing to my showing respect and sympathy for the police.
We reap what we sow.
I came from poverty, growing up in a black neighborhood. I understand how cops were used as tools of government to oppress black people. However, as a student of history I'm smart enough to know that Democrats were and still are to blame.
For my knowledge of the depravity of Democrats, I was deemed a "coon-ass N*igga" by black Liberals, specifically a guy who supposedly was part of the New Black Panther Party, the authority on blackness.
The narrative had been established that Michael Brown didn't deserve to die...for any reason; at least not at the hands of a cop.
Ironically, if Brown had been killed by a gang-banger or from "beefin'" with some hoodrat, all would be normal in the hood.
In the "death by cop" scenario, however, Michael Brown was not to put in a negative light under any circumstances. Because in that scenario, the bigger issue is police brutality and the militarization of police. Those were the marching orders of the Left politburo.
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