i hate cops now

I don't think I ever want to live life

 

I think the real words he used was 'experiences life"...

 

If I was a cop I'd fuck with teenagers/young adults all the time. Ask a cop how long it took for them to become extremely jaded. Whatever you thought the job was going to be turns into a never ending parade of people lying to you, drunk people who refuse to admit their drunk, people constantly trying to bribe you, and the most important part of this, legions of legions of asshole teenagers.

The other point is the views of yourself and hipforums don't represent the country as a whole. A majority of people support the war on drugs, if you have drugs on you they want you arrested. Hell even California couldn't legalize weed in a public vote in November.

 

The fact that you've only got 40% of the people (little more in cali for prop19, i think) on your side does not make you wrong. So 6 out of ten people don't like drugs... what about the other fucking 4 people? We matter too, and no one is forcing drugs down the throats of those other 6, more for me. You know how many people opposed the civil rights movement?

And yes, of course people lie to cops, if they're breaking a law that shouldn't be a law, they don't have a choice!

 

It doesn't make you wrong, but it also doesn't make you right. You can't knowingly break the law then be pissed when you get arrested. And drug politics can't be compared to the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement was a movement to give equal rights to people who were legally supposed to have them but in de facto practice weren't. As it stands now no one is allowed the right to consume most drugs without a prescription. Not to mention the fact at civil rights protests/marches down south people went with the expectation they might be arrested and didn't go home and complain if they were. Or to be more relevant to the times, a lot of people think the 55mph speed limit is retarded, but you can't get mad when a cop gives you a ticket for doing 75 in a 55 even if the highway was empty, especially when there's signs everywhere saying the speed limit.

Now an argument linking drug prohibition to the civil rights movement in the fact the statistics on drug use vs drug arrests by race show pretty racist trends is a different story.

As for forcing drugs down the throats of other people, a good deal of people's perceptions on drugs is memories of the crack epidemic of the 80's along with the resurgence of heroin during the same time. Just because drugs aren't being forced down people's throats doesn't mean they can literally destroy entire neighborhoods. Despite the fact it probably had nothing to do with declining drug use in the late 80's and early 90's(the early 90's actually had the lowest rate of drug use among most drugs since the 1950's), a lot of people attribute it to Nancy Reagan's just say no campaign, which makes a lot of people believe prohibition aside from being legally upheld also has the moral and economic high ground.

But the main point is the underlined above. You can be angry at a law, but you can't be angry for being arrested when you knowingly break said law. I mean there are people in places like Belarus who risk being arrested and beat up for breaking the law for just protesting to be able to have freedom of expression to protest. These people don't get angry when they get arrested though, they know the risk, and if it happens they go back out and do it again.(Ironically exactly what drug users do too)

 

I can be angry at being arrested because the police break rules, wether or not I actually did anything, such as with the war on drugs sustained attack on the 4th amendment, and I can express anger at the law and anger at those who think the law is right. If no one expresses this anger, then things get more prohibitive, not less, and you're one of the ones saying "we're all to blame" and all that. Well sure, lots of people are to blame, for not standing up, and going "well the law says it's wrong, of course I can't be angry for being arrested, better try to save face so the corrupt system thinks I see the error of my ways", as though they did something wrong.

It IS wrong to be arrested for doing something that should not be illegal, the "just following orders" defense has been tried, and failed, for good reason.