Quote Originally Posted by fikusroot
As for their methods of enforcement, I dont always agree and I certaintly dont agree with some of the laws they enforce but theres nothing you can do about it.
Sure there's something that can be done about it: abolish the police! Certainly people need protection, but there's no reason this couldn't be supplied by a voluntary collection of citizens (if fire protection can be handled like that, why not crime protection?). The problem with the police is that their job isn't really to protect you. Their job is to protect the state and enforce the rules of the state upon everybody. Their job is to arrest and help convict people of breaking these rules. You aren't going to be protected from harm if your interests (growing pot) conflict with the interests of the state (keeping alcohol and tobacco as people's drugs of choice).

The cop is in the interesting position of being a slave and a tyrant simultaneously. He is a kind of street mercenary. He must follow all the orders given down to him by the state unquestioningly, even when it tells him to do grossly immoral things like violently subdue drug users, prostitutes and other innocent, non-violent individuals. And at the same time, he must clamp down on everybody, assert his authority, and use the wide variety of tools at his disposal to help lock more people up in cages.

Fuck the police. Power to the people.