FULL ARTICLE:
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/12/the_police_have_turned_on_the_people_oreillys_wrong_tarantinos_right_and_lives_are_at_risk/
"One of the tragedies inherent in the degradation of America into a country worshipful of authority is that all the recent scandals and stories of police brutality, and departmental protection of the most brutal officers, is that law enforcement is just another institution in decline. It is no longer adequately accountable or helpful to its citizens. It is only subservient to an ethos of madness in practice and policy from a government of mendacity.
In a truly free society, with a culture of liberty, police are subject to constant scrutiny and skepticism, because citizens view them as necessary, but largely unwanted practitioners of state authority. There are heroic police officers, and wicked ones, but the practices and procedures of law enforcement are only as legitimate as the government that sponsors them.
Rather than serving or even representing the people, the government is now a violent apparatus turned against the people. Police cannot solve that problem, because it is not part of their job description, but they can intensify and illustrate it. If the Americans who no longer know their neighbors, no longer care about the children living a few miles down the highway, and no longer believe balance is necessary in lives of rabid consumption and isolation want to find a suspect to arrest for the crime of killing a culture of connection, and assaulting a country of freedom, they should gather the clues of their voting records, personal priorities, and behavioral habits – all of which will lead them to the mirror."
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