Republican or Democrat. All your politicians serve the same master. They only differ in the noises they make while doing so.
The real problem is. As many people find this abhorrent... woe betide the honourable man who tries to dismantle it, for he shall be seen as soft on crime. And being soft on crime, he shall never succeed in office. Americans seem to be quite happy as a breed with an overpowered, overarmed police force, either through intellectual blindness and refusal to believe they could ever be one of the 'bad guys' who ends up at the receiving end of it, or because somebody's led them to believe the only way they can be free is behind a padlocked door with guard towers on the community gates and machineguns watchfully sweeping over open spaces.
They are soon disabused of the idea when a SWAT teams kicks down their front door on a drug warrent, shoots the family pet - then shoots the kid playing with the toy gun, arrests the homeowner for felony murder, incarcerates them and takes their remaining children away to a home, and then discovers that the informant who gave them the tip lied to them. But the wheels of justice are already turning and they've got to keep moving beause to many salaries and reputations depend on being 'tough on crime'....
The most damning statistic of all. The majority of Americans are in favour of these programs. "Well that's good! That's tough on crime! It's their own fault! God hates them!"
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The real problem is. As many people find this abhorrent... woe betide the honourable man who tries to dismantle it, for he shall be seen as soft on crime. And being soft on crime, he shall never succeed in office. Americans seem to be quite happy as a breed with an overpowered, overarmed police force, either through intellectual blindness and refusal to believe they could ever be one of the 'bad guys' who ends up at the receiving end of it, or because somebody's led them to believe the only way they can be free is behind a padlocked door with guard towers on the community gates and machineguns watchfully sweeping over open spaces.
They are soon disabused of the idea when a SWAT teams kicks down their front door on a drug warrent, shoots the family pet - then shoots the kid playing with the toy gun, arrests the homeowner for felony murder, incarcerates them and takes their remaining children away to a home, and then discovers that the informant who gave them the tip lied to them. But the wheels of justice are already turning and they've got to keep moving beause to many salaries and reputations depend on being 'tough on crime'....
The most damning statistic of all. The majority of Americans are in favour of these programs. "Well that's good! That's tough on crime! It's their own fault! God hates them!"
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?