From: Typhon@yabbs
To: all@yabbs
Subject: re: cops n' beatin' an' barts'
Date: Sat Aug  6 10:57:16 1994

As far as this whole Raging controversy goes, I got one thing to say.

Cops are Human.
Ergo, they have the same rate of Shits to Normals as does the society that 
produces them. Then, we send them into Life And Death Situations and ask 
them to TAKE CARE OF IT. After a while, they begin to be affected. 

The solution is neither more police nor mnore money for police, nor is it 
Less Police and Less money for them. It is a societial woe, and no amount 
of military troops on the streets (Sorry, Nforcer, but the linbe between 
Police and Paramilitary Squads is too blurry as it is) will cure it. What 
will? Examining ourselves. Examining why Pele is insulted for his race, 
why I am distrusted for My Appearance (I'm white, but I'm big, I have long 
hair, and I wear torn jeans and Leather...this is reason enough where I 
live to CONTINUALLY ROUST ME...I've been picked up o other peoples 
warrants fifty times...IU won't sing you a song about my manly resistance, 
because usually I just go along to get along...I've never been prosecuted, 
noty even when I was recently arrested for actions at Planned Parenthood 
against demonstrators who grabbed a friend) The truth is, when we put 
these men and women into lethal situations, we have to expect them to 
become hardened and cynical...It isn't an excuse for some of their more 
extreme hate-based behavior, but it helps explain it. And there are plenty 
of reasonable, decent people who wear the shields...we can't throw them 
aside and let them die when they are trying to protect us, which is their 
duty, but is our fault.

This is a strange post for an anarchist.....but I don't want to see people 
like Nforcer in body bags before the perfect Anarchy comes...I just lost a 
friend this week and I'm so sick of all the death.

Typhon the Usurper