… and that sentiment is how you end up 10% of your country wondering 'How did it come to this?'
Just saying, I get where that sentiment comes from, but if nothing ever manifests due to fear of being 'v&', well… Let's put it this way: Do you not understand how that threat is employed to control you?
History lesson time. Did you know that Rome had no standing police force for much of its history, particularly during the Republic?
I've been thinking on this recently…
Rome had no police, and you couldn't bring the military into the city except under very specific circumstances.
So, a common tactic, politically, would be to rouse a mob. Hell, at one point, when someone - i wanna say a Tribune - was starting trouble for the aristocrats, they walked into the area where voting was transpiring, aweing the plebs with their opulence, pulled legs off tables and chairs, and beat the offending tribune to death, with no consequences on their behalf.
Over time, people learned that rousing a mob was a good mechanism. They started doing it regularly. Eventually, someone thought, "Well, fuck it, why not keep a mob?", and so the standing gang was born - a ready-to-move mob that never dispersed.
When these gangs would go to war with each other, the city would basically close up shop - but there would be political change as a result in almost all instances. Sometimes, the military would have to be brought in to stamp it down.
But here's the rub: The modern police? They're the mob. A government-owned mob. A gang, if you will. And they've got state approval to act, all over the country, to serve the same masters.
I used to defend police, blue lives matter and all that shit. But now I realize, their presence is what keeps any sort of real action, any real change, from transpiring - from the moment you start to foment resistance, you are monitored, stalked, infiltrated if you form an organization, and eventually you are attacked and taken into custody of the gang. As such, the police forces ensure no political change via the people can foment, as everytime they start to get riled up or start planning or coming together, the police-gang shows up to beat them down…. The result being, well, your sentiment: "We can't do anything, we'll get arrested".
True, perhaps… But also indicative of the context which was desired in the creation of this paradigm.
