I am all for reforming the police, but how? Petition the government? - get Avaaz involved. They are pretty effective.
In the mean time, how do we protect ourselves from police brutality? The same way we protect ourselves from any other criminal? Never go anywhere police are alone, always travel with others, always carry a taser, gun or body armour? Hire our own personal body guards?
Do you really think we can go up against the puppet masters?
good points, I still think the best way to protect ourselves from police brutality is to be ourselves. I am a productive member of society, I don't go galavanting downtown to protest G20 conferences. If I was stuck in an airport for 18 hours, I wouldn't be tossing computer monitors at glass walls. I save my drunk and disorderly behaviour for the privacy of my own home, and/or the privacy of a friend's home. So there's very little chance of me getting pounded on be a police officer that has lost his cool because someone near me has spit or cursed at him 1 too many times.
There are thousands of people, if not millions of people in this country, that disagree with our country. Most of us express this through non compliance. Some take it a step further and challenge it in the supreme courts. We are not all activists, so I support the idea of most of us putting our money where our mouths are and support the associations that best represent us. I support the NFA. I have for close to 10 years.
Furthermore, I disagree with Unforgiven. The concept of second ammendment rights is more about fighting and opposing a government that has completely fallen apart, a government that is no longer observant of our constitutional rights. Our SCC has NOT fallen apart, it is still functioning.
I support the idea of armed conflict when necessary, but to suggest that now is the time? I don't think this is the time, I don't think we are even remotely close to the set of conditions where a citizen should be taking up arms and butting heads with the local police.
Besides, armed conflict is a last resort measure. Its not something we want hippies and granolas doing everytime they disagree with something.
They seem to have an abnormal fixation on getting arrested and beaten up. I don't understand them.