The Deranged, Criminal-Minded “Logic” of Power-Tripping American Police

The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain George Brown

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Captain George Brown

Rayn: OK Trooper Tells Local News: Best Way Not to Get Raped by Cops is to “Follow the Law”:
http://www.rawstory.com/2014/09/ok-trooper-tells-local-news-best-way-not-to-get-raped-by-cops-is-to-follow-the-law/

Samantha P.: what the fuck did i just read????

Rayn: State propaganda.

Angelina M.: WTF ! I would kill a pig !

Explaining the Difference Between Hoax and Satire

The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of family…

Genaire: NYPD Officer Kills Baby Following Breastfeeding Argument:
http://nationalreport.net/nyc-police-officer-kills-baby-breastfeeding-argument/

Sara: It’s a hoax story.

Genaire: That’s good to know. I hadn’t gotten around to reading it yet.

Sara: Yeah, but sadly, with the police state and the NYPD’s actions lately, it’s very easy to believe.

Samantha P.: lol i completely flipped when i read this story until sara stepped in and saved my nerves!

Rayn: It’s actually satire, meaning that it wasn’t really meant to fool readers, so much as to make them think about the issue being addressed…

National Report Publisher Allen Montgomery Responds to Critics of NYPD Story:
http://nationalreport.net/national-report-publisher-allen-montgomery-responds/

(update: archived copy of above link located here: https://web.archive.org/web/20140813041956/http://nationalreport.net/national-report-publisher-allen-montgomery-responds/)

Daniel F.: Unfortunately a story like this one is all too believable these days. I’ve already lost count of how many totally outrageous headlines I’ve come across that I realized were satire only because they were from freewoodpost or some other satire site like it. (Not even the Onion – somehow they manage to keep coming up with stories and headlines that most people wouldn’t mistake for being actually real).

Wendy P.: OMG, I also felt my nerves tremble till I read entirely. Cops should be trained to know the law inside and out and know when citizens actually break a law. Citizens should also be made very aware of the law.

The Tyranny of the American Police State Continues to Increase

The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after I posted graphic art being shared by the page, “Just Statist Things“…

Rayn:

"illegal structure juststatistthings"

“illegal structure
juststatistthings”

Jason C.: Happened near where I grew up. This is the same police department that did this:

THE DARK STATE: Discarded Tea Leaves, False Positive Drug Tests Prompt Search Warrant of Family Home:
http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/investigations-extras/discarded-tea-leaves-false-positive-drug-tests-prompt-search-warrant-of-joco-familys-home

Rayn: Costumed criminals, operating under color of law…

If Humans Truly Are “Evil,” As Most Statists Claim, We Shouldn’t DARE Have Government

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “Liberty Evolution,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"All governments suffer from a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible." - Frank Herbert

“All governments suffer from a recurring problem: power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts, but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” – Frank Herbert

My Commentary: Along with the above artwork,  Liberty Minds captioned it with one of my favorite quotes, by Robert LeFevre, though I believe it would be more accurately stated as,  “If men [do] good, you don’t need government; if men [do] evil or [act] ambivalent, you don’t dare have one,” as this modification reflects the uncertain future factor that free-will brings.

Of course,  it was Baron John Acton who said, “power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” and that is the idea that Frank Herbert was building upon.