noncompliance_is_the_only_vote_that_matters dafremen The Justice Dept. announced that it's opening up a 7th investigation into police abuse. I'd like to think it's because they see the horrors of what the American landscape is shaping up to be, but I don't really have much faith that those in power want to rectify their abuses. Instead, I think this is a smoothing over, being done to keep irate people from taking to the streets in order to keep the economy strong so the profits can continue to flow to their masters. They'll keep building up police forces in the meantime, until they're guaranteed to suppress any protests. Besides, can we REALLY go back at this point? A fundamental question has been posed that, it seems to me, must be answered first: Are we obeying the law because we choose to or because we are forced to? If the the justice system in any particular jurisdiction can disregard the assault and murder of one of us and we CANNOT do anything about it, are we really choosing to obey this law? Or has this law taken hold of us and become our masters? For if that's the case, then it won't matter if the laws support civility or brutality,we wouldn't be able to stop the imposition of its will either way. IS that REALLY an American system of justice then? One which may impose its will on any group or individual in this country with impunity? One which continuously moves toward ELIMINATING FREEDOMS in the name of SAFETY, CONVENIENCE and SAVINGS? Eliminating freedoms seems like a very UNAMERICAN thing to be doing. And yet the system continues to be supported by a populace bombarded with MURDER, CRIME AND TERROR sound bites in every orifice, who believe we NEED protection. The statistics show a different story: We are a nation with a very low, very acceptable level of death, assault and crime. It's around 2% for violent crime(for DECADES) and under 1% for deaths(again..for DECADES). Most of those deaths are old people dying from cancer or heart disease..not murders. You have a better chance of winning a LARGE LOTTERY PRIZE than of being the victim of violent crime in any given year. But we believe them when they tell us that we need to ticket the shit out of people who don't wear seat belts, or put metal detectors in our schools, or tell us that they have to suppress protests for "public safety." Because its preferable to let people die silently, killed by cops during traffic stops or loud radio complaints for DECADES than it is that a few shops get vandalized and traffic doesn't flow smoothly for a couple of weeks. The justice system finds justice in defending an officer's right to shoot unarmed citizens because he felt "threatened", despite his extensive, taxpayer supported training, his large arsenal of suppression related tools and access to one of the most extensive back up networks known to man. But that same system finds no justice in crowds of indignant citizens who feel THREATENED, throwing insults and objects at those same officers when the justice system fails to acknowledge their grievances. Some will say, "but not every officer is abusive." Is the officer who kept silent while his brother in blue committed atrocities really an innocent? "But he had a family to feed!" Perhaps so did the person killed, or waylaid and fined, or beaten into a physical condition that led to their unemployment. There are no innocents on the police force anymore. Let's get that straight. So what it REALLY comes down to is: Are we OBEYING the law by choice? Or by FORCE? Because we've seen how well the justice system polices itself. IF we are FORCED to obey the law, then TRULY we are at the whim of these fickle lunatics. And if they BELIEVE we are FORCED to obey the law...even worse for us. Surely we cannot AFFORD to let a few civil rights cases "smooth things over." We need to test our position in relation to this so-called "justice system." We need to determine whether it serves us, or we serve it. Are we TRULY the masters of our supposedly democratic system? OR rather, is that rhetoric just a lubricant we are given to make being used, abused and violated seem less awful? If we are to be respected as a citizenry, we MUST demonstrate that we CHOOSE to obey the law. We must REFUSE to obey the law and WIN before our governing authorities will accept our authority over them. At this point in time, it seems like NONCOMPLIANCE is the only vote that REALLY matters anymore. 141205 ... shpaaaaaaaaaaaa shpaaaaaaaaaaaa 141205 ... . . 150202 what's it to you? who go blather from