Sadism in our Courtrooms, A Microcosm for All Authority

(The following link contains a disturbing video)



If you thought you were safe around police officers, think again. It seems the inverse is true. The more police officers that are around you, the more likely harm is to come to you and those around you.

Let me remind you officers are the domestic version of what the military is abroad (and for you very authoritarian countries, at home as well). They are Goons who restore order at the edge of a sword, the tip of a bayonet, or with the bullet of a gun. Give them power, and they use it as sadistically as possible.

Men become animals in the name of order, country, leader, democracy, and punish those without power. As Blackwater and contractors kill and detain without oversight in Iraq, as the CIA tortures in Guantanamo or Bagram on a daily basis, as the military firebombs the village in order to save it, and as police officers restore order to the unorderly in our very own country,you can rest assured that these men and women do so in the name of democracy, of order, of country; they kill your family, bomb your village, tase your neighbour, all for your safety. So be thankful as they gently place the boot on your face for the good of society. Don't comply, don't prostrate yourselves before them, look them in the eye in the wrong way, and they will take pleasure in forcing that boot on your head. Obey!

As a rule of thumb you don't use good iron to make nails, and you never use good men to make soldiers, or police officers, or CIA agents.

These men take pride in making others cower before them in the name of legal authority. Knowing they are immune from the same legal procedures as us ordinary and powerless sheep, they gladly make us comply with whatever method necessary-and afterwards invent the legal justification for criminal behaviour. Whether it's "excited delirium", "enhanced interrogation techniques", or "collateral damage", the invention of euphemistic terms never ceases to immune the beasts among us.

I always wondered (for I have been unfortunate in my short life span) to never have been confronted by a police officer-or should I be more euphamistically correct-state parasites. I imagine my naiveté will land me in jail or with a taser lodged into my arm or my leg or with a broken jaw. I imagine what I could do to stop that inevitable conclusion... and then I remember- shooting an officer, even in self-defense, never pays off.

Yet if a citizenry cannot fight, either legally or practically, against the systemic brutality of sadists, either in its own CIA, its own military, or its own police force, where is their recourse? Where is one to go if abused by organisations that claim to protect your freedom and safety, if these same organisations harass and threaten you needlessly? What actions, short of abolishment of these organisations, can one do to ensure these abuses of power will never occur? Is it inherent in the State itself, or in our own human nature? Do we need to have a military, a police force, and a CIA to ensure our safety, our flag, our social contract?

At what point does increasing safety mean having less of these authorities around to insure it? At what point, at what brutality, at what sadistic euphemism will we cringe these demons away? Whose death, whose tortured corpse, whose mangled body, disfigured in the name of safety, will it take to forcibly claim our freedom from these monsters, before we ourselves succumb to the clawed boot of this faceless beast?

~Justin Schoville