Re: We do NOT trust authority- the results are showing
Now that we got this far in the debate, so its time to ask what is behind the rage of Roszko, and so many others who have a similiar disdain for authority?
For Roszko, like many many other Canadaians, it was about the unfair pot laws. This is a big one today in Canada. We know pot laws need to be re-worked, and so whenever a cop enforces the present law, he loses credability. Thats it, thats enough to invalidate all cops, and for us to see them as the enemy of freedoms instead of the protector of us. And they are then a TARGET, and rage is understandable [the violence is probably not justifyable, but thats another discussion]
Also, there is the authority figures who have abused their position of trust, who used their powers to abuse people. This invalidates authority in general. I am thinking of the alter boys who were abused by priests - if Roszko were on of these, we could understand his rage but would expect him to shoot priests instead of cops.
There are tons of abuses by authority , like Bush invading Iraq on false pretense , and the cops who take drugs and money for themselves, and the way the CIA has financed it operations against drugs with drug money. Hypocracy, immoral behaviors, like using torture - these all make us HATE authority, we RAGE against such outlandish acts and the people who perpetrate them.
It is historical fact that cops have been on the wrong side of the law at times.Armies too, whole nations like Germany in the 1930s and 40s. There is no code or rule or certainty that what cops do is right. WE give them the powers they have, and we do it to protect ourselves but they turn it around and lord over us...
...we know this isn't right, and when Roszko was faced with all his work growing pot being lost once again to the cops, he know it wasn't to protect anyone, and that it was part of the conspiracy against cannibus in general, so its obvious that he will be in a rage. Maybe he did have a chop shop there too, we don't really know the facts - BECAUSE WE DON'T TRUST AUTHORITY !!
I don't , you don't...media, cops statements, politicians - Its time to get this problem figured out - we cannot continue having authority without trust, or more cops will get shot and more and more people with issues against authority will find themselves "on the outside", and thats where trouble starts.
We all gotta belong somewhere, even if we are different or have different needs, we cannot have a war on drugs that is actually a war on US and expect people to just lie down and take it.
Karlin
