Quote Originally Posted by ArtRollins
Police are the bullies in the schoolyard. The bankers and gentry pay them. There is a reason the people hate the bullies.

There are only three groups of people.

The ruling class
Those that work and protect the ruling class for privilege and status
Those that are subjects/citizens/slaves

Judicial, legislative and police belong in the middle there. We, the stoners, we belong on that there bottom. Why hate them? They protect the laws from above without jurisprudence (that means without judging the law). That would be similar to shooting a human because you are ordered to.

So, it is very simple, someone sworn to uphold the "rule of law" rather than a citizens inalienable rights should be hated, not respected. Someone who enforces laws regardless of their legal nature is a criminal, one who deserves derision and hate.

Simple no?

Art - American in Exile
Cannabis Farmer
Very well put. The police are in power primarily to protect the ruling class, and are chiefly concerned with protecting their "property rights" (remember that possession is nine tenths of the law), that is, maintaining the gap between people who hardly do any productive work and wipe their asses with $500 bills and people who labor all day just to be able to eat and have a roof over their heads. That is what the ruling elite uses the police for, at least, and since they are petty thugs unquestioningly obeying the rules of their superiors, they follow suit regardless of the social consequences of their behavior. They propagate hate and violence for unjust reasons. Blaming an intangible law doesn't help anything. The current situation is clearly the fault of everybody who forces that law upon society.

(By the way, I too was puzzled by that Muslim question. What would lead one to think I of all people would follow Islam?)