I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Chris Dodd is a democrat. Or the fact that the RIAA and MPAA gave millions to Obama. Or the large number of MPAA and RIAA stooges in the Obama administration.
Though it's good to know that the White House doesn't have to follow through with what they agreed to do, as long as they can come up with a half-assed reason.
Most Crayons despise Windows and would never insult such a beautiful machine by subjecting it to that monstrosity. But there are a few lower end models available with Windows.
I have an iPad and I use Takenote. I like that it allows me to write freehand, draw shapes, type into text boxes, and does minor page layout work (e.g. moving and resizing components). It's also good at organizing different notebooks with multiple pages and named sections and bookmarks.
At what point does America become the unofficial police state of the world?
January 20, 2009. The day Obama broke every campaign promise about restoring civil rights and government transparency.
They had a big party to celebrate. You must have missed it. I think there was cake.
I drive on the freeways armed, as I'm sure many people in TN do. I ride the WA state ferries armed. (I did notice the ferries mentioned in TFA were both interstate transit). But what would they do if I set off their metal detectors? Or if they find guns on a traveler in TN? It's perfectly legal to carry guns in most of the USA.
Also, for trains and ferries, they could refuse to let someone who ignores them board, but what if you refuse a search on the freeway? I used to drive through the border patrol checkpoints in AZ and CA (but not on the border) dozens of times per year. They'd ask if I was a citizen, I'd ask if they had a warrant to compel that information. They'd tell me to answer the question. I'd ask if I was being detained. And after a minute of back and forth, they'd tell me to go. They had no authority to compel me to answer, and they knew it. The TSA should be in the same situation. Without a warrant, they shouldn't be able to do anything but request to question or search a person or vehicle.
I guess one benefit of all of this is that being so blatant about their invasive searches will push popular opinion over the tipping point, and Ron Paul won't be alone calling for the TSA's dissolution in Congress.
You have it wrong, actually...from your wikipedia link:
The term "inflation" originally referred to increases in the amount of money in circulation, and some economists still use the word in this way.
Generally in economic circles, non-Keynesians will use the term price inflation when referring to rising prices, and inflation to refer to an increase in the currency in circulation. Keynesians will use the the term inflation to mean price inflation, and completely ignore the concept of currency supply inflation, because acknowledging it would require admitting the fundamental flaw of Keynesianism: that printing fiat currency funnels money from the lower and middle classes to the politically connected elites.
WSJ is Keynesian.
Krugmans predictions have sucked:
Krugman said the borrow and spend and print and spend stimulus packages would help the US economy. They did not.
He said that inflating the bubble over the past decade would be good. It was not.
The people who predicted the housing bubble burst, the tech bubble burst, and just about every recession and depression since 1913 are the Austrians like FA Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murry Rothbard, and Ron Paul, all of whom are (or were until their deaths) firm believers in the gold standard. Generally, if all the politicians who take bribes...I mean "campaign contributions", from our corporate overlords, are strongly in favor of an economic policy (like Keynesianism), it's not going to be good for the rest of us.
Comparing bitcoin to gold is absolutely moronic! Bitcoin has far more in common with the US dollar (or other fiat currencies) than with gold.
The gold supply is limited to the amount that exists in the universe and our ability to extract it efficiently. Bitcoin (like the Federal Reserve) can change the amount in circulation by entering numbers on a computer.
Gold has real, concrete value. It is useful in dozens of industries, not just jewelry and ornamentation. Bitcoins (like the USD since 1971) are backed by nothing of value, and are therefore inherently valueless. There is a reason that gold has been the de facto wealth storage medium for over 6000 years now. Successful cultures become successful on a gold standard, then turn to empire, inflate the currency, and collapse. (The US empire is currently shifting from step 3 to step 4).
Krugman hates the gold standard, like all Keynesians, because it would eliminate the ability of the Fed to print and spend, a policy Krugman loves.
There's a very clear definition of exploitation under capitalism: using force, guile, or more subtle coercion to get someone to make a decision differently than he would otherwise.
Pointing a gun at someone and saying, "give me your wallet" is force.
Selling a car that has forged documents, or telling someone that you're the prince of Nigeria and need his help to get $10M into the US is guile.
Getting a woman strung out on drugs and turning her into a prostitute is subtle coercion.
Paying somebody a low wage is not exploitation, as long as the person is free to leave. If the person's labor is worth more, he should be able to get more elsewhere. If not, then it's a fair wage. Taxes, however, are exploitation, because they are forcibly taken.
Charging a huge rent for a crappy apartment in a housing shortage is not exploitation. It's actually how prices work. High prices draw greedy investors, who build apartments (or whatever is in short supply), stabilizing the price. Government housing programs, like rent control, are exploitation, because they distort the market, scaring off investors, keeping prices artificially high, or quality artificially low.
Charging $20 for a pack of batteries the day before the hurricane hits (aka "price gouging") is not exploitation. Again, it's how prices work. High prices on in-demand items in an emergency prevent shortages. If batteries are $1 per pack, the stores will sell out immediately, as people buy more than they need. At $20 per pack, only the guy who really needs them will buy them. The shortages of the 1970s oil crisis weren't due to diminished production, they were due to price controls instituted by Nixon (one of many idiotic economic policies he implemented): people hoarded gasoline, because the price was artificially low. Shortages for hurricanes, blizzards, etc. are caused the same way.
The previous post doesn't in any way imply equality between rich and poor.
But the two sons would have the same opportunities. They would differ in their resources: intellect, physical capability, education, money, etc. But that's true of any two people. Liberty (or capitalism, or whatever you prefer to call it) does not attempt to somehow force equality.
You are spot on, except your first and final sentences.
Under Liberty, there can be no state, since a state is a monopoly on legitimized force in a geographic area, and under Liberty force is only defensive force is legitimate.
The state is not failing at its primary purpose. Its primary, in fact its only purpose, is to protect the elites from the rest of us and siphon wealth from us to them. It has been that way since the first time a group of pre-humans started dominating another group. Modern elites are clever enough to trick the masses into thinking that by choosing their rulers from a small pre-approved group of elites they somehow rule themselves. But if we truly ruled ourselves, we wouldn't need those elites.
I really have to wonder how many people understand what capitalism actually is.
Capitalism is not a system where the government prints fake money, debasing the currency, and spreads it around to the politically connected elites to enrich them at the expense of the majority.
Capitalism is not a system where the bureaucratic impediments to starting a business make it nearly impossible to challenge the established, politically connected elites.
Capitalism is not a system where donating money to the correct candidate has a bigger effect on a company's viability than the R&D or marketing budgets.
Capitalism in not a system where capital is removed from the private sector, where it would be allocated efficiently, and pushed to the public sector where it will buy votes.
Capitalism is not a system where a few people in power can make such sweeping changes that the entire business community is scared to invest.
Capitalism is not a system where voluntary contracts can be overridden or redefined by a guy in a black dress with a wooden hammer, against the will of one or both of the parties involved.
Capitalism is a system of individual sovereignty where people are free to interact with each other voluntarily. Capitalism, peace, and liberty go together. One cannot exist for long without the other two.
As long as Congress, the president, and their armies of bureaucrats have the power to arbitrarily force their wills on the people, and political connections are the most important factor in success, there will be no capitalism in the USA.
Seriously, this will do *nothing* for the nutters that honestly don't think we've been to the moon.
Probably not. Pictures of the (mostly) spherical Earth from space, or looking at a ship over the horizon, have yet to convince the Flat Earthers (yes, they are real) that we live on an oblate spheroid. DNA evidence of our similarity to other primates has yet to convince the creationists that evolution is a valid theory.
Anti-science is like a religious belief (and in some cases has religious origins). It uses the emotional part of the brain, not the logical part, so logical arguments are useless in defeating it.
Don't forget it's a doorstop that's too low to stop most doors, a spoon with a handle that's too wide to wield properly, and vibrator that's too weak to give much pleasure.
Or maybe...it's a really good device for people who want something that's more portable than a notebook, for watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, having a video chat with uncle Frank in Ohio, browsing the web, or checking email.
Using your "logic", a notebook is just a workstation that's barely practical for CAD applications, and a cell phone is a (standard) phone that doesn't make calls in tunnels. Yet notebooks outsell workstations, and cell phones outsell wired phones.
I used my MacBook Pro as a dev box and a portable machine, but I noticed that the portability part was only entertainment and web use. So I sold it, and spent that money on an iMac that's more powerful than the MBP (and has a built in 27" display), and an iPad. I now have a much better dev box and a better portable entertainment device, for the same price. Every device category is a compromise between the size, price (or other property you want to minimize) of one neighbor category and the power, battery life (or other property you want to maximize) of the other neighbor.
So how many small crimes would you have to commit in other areas to reduce the police coverage in your targeted area before you commit the big crime at the real target?
As a person who carries regularly for self-defense, and knows others who do, I have to ask: Are you on crack?
We don't shoot people unless it's the only way to stop a violent crime. Our rate of shooting people is a small fraction of that of the boys in blue. And our rate of shooting innocent people is nearly zero (the cops aren't even close).
However in my life I have never had a cop around when I felt threatened unless the cop was the reason that I felt threatened.
This is the sad truth. I am more afraid of being shot by a cop than by anyone else.
I'd feel more comfortable around a pimp or pusher with a gun in his belt than with a cop. Because the crook at least values business and doesn't feel an urge to shoot potential customers. There's a good chance he has that that gun to protect himself from the police or organized criminals who sponsor the local donut brigade.
Sadly...that makes sense. If the pimp kills you he faces decades in prison, or a date with the Chair. If the cop kills you, all he has to do is say you were a threat to officer safety, and after his two month paid vacation, he gets his gun and badge back.
However I'd feel even safer around an honest citizen who carries a gun for self-defense (like me).
They get suspension with pay while they are presumed innocent during an investigation. Police departments exist to ensure law and order is maintained for the safety and security of society. Without them, we have people taking advantage of others with no chance at justice. Take off your foil hat and enjoy the surroundings.
Did you just read that off of a pamphlet at your local police station...where they were too busy prosecuting victimless crimes like prostitution, drug use, and speaking out against injustice to get their solved rate for violent crimes above 50%?
Society is inherently ordered. We are mostly good people. We don't rape and rob each other because we know it's wrong, not because some doofus with a tin badge says not to. There are a few exceptions, but they're actually quite rare. In the USA most violent crime is related to the drug war (and a significant amount is committed by the guys with tin badges), which wouldn't exist if cops weren't maintaining "law and order".
Take the kool-aid IV out of your arm and introduce yourself to reality.
They don't just tax it because they can collect far greater tax revenue from the people if those people are afraid of the "dope fiends" raping their children and pets. The government scares the shit out of people with bullshit stories and then taxes the shit out the people to "keep them safe." This is why FEAR is listed first in FUD.
Also, the money they spend on fighting the drug war is used to further erode our rights, for our own good of course. The war on drugs has been the biggest hit to civil rights in the USA, although it might soon be surpassed by the war on terror.
I made a blog post about in in spanish a year or two ago, were I stated the premise that governments always try to profit the most out of people and all they do is try to maximize it, they will not prevent any kind of crime if it allows them to profit more than actually preventing it.
How do you explain that marijuana is outlawed? Why don't they just tax it?
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the USA marijuana was outlawed under pressure from the tobacco, alcohol, and plastics (yes, plastics) cartels, due to its ability to hurt those industries (hemp can apparently be used to make high quality, low cost plastics).
I should have said "ruling elites" in my post above. Not all of the people who benefit from the cops are politicians and bureaucrats. Many are in "private" industries that have strong government influence (e.g. Wall Street banking).
I hope that this pig will be made to pay that woman heavy (heavy!) damages for all sorts of things, as a warning to other public servants who think they can get away with abusing their power. What a rotten piece of shiat.
Probably not. Even if she (or the guy he beat so badly it should count as attempted murder) wins any money, he, and the police brass who let it happen and covered it up, won't be out a penny. We the tax payers will end up covering the costs. And the cop will get a six figure annual pension after working for 25 years.
but in my personal opinion, he's just as dirty, and should have been fired, too.
Fired? Cops don't get fired for beating and killing peons like you and me. They get a paid vacation...I mean disciplinary leave.
Cops aren't there to protect us from criminals (and as courts have repeatedly said, they're under no obligation to do so). They're there to protect the government class from its greatest foe: us, and to ensure that the other tax feeders can continue to suck us dry without fear that we'll resist. Once you understand the premise, it makes more sense. William Grigg writes frequently about the constant abuse of power (and physical abuse of innocents) by the cops.
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I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Chris Dodd is a democrat. Or the fact that the RIAA and MPAA gave millions to Obama. Or the large number of MPAA and RIAA stooges in the Obama administration.
Though it's good to know that the White House doesn't have to follow through with what they agreed to do, as long as they can come up with a half-assed reason.
According to Google, Cray and Intel are working together on future supercomputers.
Most Crayons despise Windows and would never insult such a beautiful machine by subjecting it to that monstrosity. But there are a few lower end models available with Windows.
I have an iPad and I use Takenote. I like that it allows me to write freehand, draw shapes, type into text boxes, and does minor page layout work (e.g. moving and resizing components). It's also good at organizing different notebooks with multiple pages and named sections and bookmarks.
At what point does America become the unofficial police state of the world?
January 20, 2009. The day Obama broke every campaign promise about restoring civil rights and government transparency.
They had a big party to celebrate. You must have missed it. I think there was cake.
I drive on the freeways armed, as I'm sure many people in TN do. I ride the WA state ferries armed. (I did notice the ferries mentioned in TFA were both interstate transit). But what would they do if I set off their metal detectors? Or if they find guns on a traveler in TN? It's perfectly legal to carry guns in most of the USA.
Also, for trains and ferries, they could refuse to let someone who ignores them board, but what if you refuse a search on the freeway? I used to drive through the border patrol checkpoints in AZ and CA (but not on the border) dozens of times per year. They'd ask if I was a citizen, I'd ask if they had a warrant to compel that information. They'd tell me to answer the question. I'd ask if I was being detained. And after a minute of back and forth, they'd tell me to go. They had no authority to compel me to answer, and they knew it. The TSA should be in the same situation. Without a warrant, they shouldn't be able to do anything but request to question or search a person or vehicle.
I guess one benefit of all of this is that being so blatant about their invasive searches will push popular opinion over the tipping point, and Ron Paul won't be alone calling for the TSA's dissolution in Congress.
The term "inflation" originally referred to increases in the amount of money in circulation, and some economists still use the word in this way.
Generally in economic circles, non-Keynesians will use the term price inflation when referring to rising prices, and inflation to refer to an increase in the currency in circulation. Keynesians will use the the term inflation to mean price inflation, and completely ignore the concept of currency supply inflation, because acknowledging it would require admitting the fundamental flaw of Keynesianism: that printing fiat currency funnels money from the lower and middle classes to the politically connected elites.
WSJ is Keynesian.
Krugmans predictions have sucked:
Krugman said the borrow and spend and print and spend stimulus packages would help the US economy. They did not.
He said that inflating the bubble over the past decade would be good. It was not.
The people who predicted the housing bubble burst, the tech bubble burst, and just about every recession and depression since 1913 are the Austrians like FA Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Murry Rothbard, and Ron Paul, all of whom are (or were until their deaths) firm believers in the gold standard. Generally, if all the politicians who take bribes...I mean "campaign contributions", from our corporate overlords, are strongly in favor of an economic policy (like Keynesianism), it's not going to be good for the rest of us.
Comparing bitcoin to gold is absolutely moronic! Bitcoin has far more in common with the US dollar (or other fiat currencies) than with gold.
The gold supply is limited to the amount that exists in the universe and our ability to extract it efficiently. Bitcoin (like the Federal Reserve) can change the amount in circulation by entering numbers on a computer.
Gold has real, concrete value. It is useful in dozens of industries, not just jewelry and ornamentation. Bitcoins (like the USD since 1971) are backed by nothing of value, and are therefore inherently valueless. There is a reason that gold has been the de facto wealth storage medium for over 6000 years now. Successful cultures become successful on a gold standard, then turn to empire, inflate the currency, and collapse. (The US empire is currently shifting from step 3 to step 4).
Krugman hates the gold standard, like all Keynesians, because it would eliminate the ability of the Fed to print and spend, a policy Krugman loves.
Pointing a gun at someone and saying, "give me your wallet" is force.
Selling a car that has forged documents, or telling someone that you're the prince of Nigeria and need his help to get $10M into the US is guile.
Getting a woman strung out on drugs and turning her into a prostitute is subtle coercion.
Paying somebody a low wage is not exploitation, as long as the person is free to leave. If the person's labor is worth more, he should be able to get more elsewhere. If not, then it's a fair wage. Taxes, however, are exploitation, because they are forcibly taken.
Charging a huge rent for a crappy apartment in a housing shortage is not exploitation. It's actually how prices work. High prices draw greedy investors, who build apartments (or whatever is in short supply), stabilizing the price. Government housing programs, like rent control, are exploitation, because they distort the market, scaring off investors, keeping prices artificially high, or quality artificially low.
Charging $20 for a pack of batteries the day before the hurricane hits (aka "price gouging") is not exploitation. Again, it's how prices work. High prices on in-demand items in an emergency prevent shortages. If batteries are $1 per pack, the stores will sell out immediately, as people buy more than they need. At $20 per pack, only the guy who really needs them will buy them. The shortages of the 1970s oil crisis weren't due to diminished production, they were due to price controls instituted by Nixon (one of many idiotic economic policies he implemented): people hoarded gasoline, because the price was artificially low. Shortages for hurricanes, blizzards, etc. are caused the same way.
The previous post doesn't in any way imply equality between rich and poor. But the two sons would have the same opportunities. They would differ in their resources: intellect, physical capability, education, money, etc. But that's true of any two people. Liberty (or capitalism, or whatever you prefer to call it) does not attempt to somehow force equality.
Under Liberty, there can be no state, since a state is a monopoly on legitimized force in a geographic area, and under Liberty force is only defensive force is legitimate.
The state is not failing at its primary purpose. Its primary, in fact its only purpose, is to protect the elites from the rest of us and siphon wealth from us to them. It has been that way since the first time a group of pre-humans started dominating another group. Modern elites are clever enough to trick the masses into thinking that by choosing their rulers from a small pre-approved group of elites they somehow rule themselves. But if we truly ruled ourselves, we wouldn't need those elites.
Capitalism is not a system where the government prints fake money, debasing the currency, and spreads it around to the politically connected elites to enrich them at the expense of the majority.
Capitalism is not a system where the bureaucratic impediments to starting a business make it nearly impossible to challenge the established, politically connected elites.
Capitalism is not a system where donating money to the correct candidate has a bigger effect on a company's viability than the R&D or marketing budgets.
Capitalism in not a system where capital is removed from the private sector, where it would be allocated efficiently, and pushed to the public sector where it will buy votes.
Capitalism is not a system where a few people in power can make such sweeping changes that the entire business community is scared to invest.
Capitalism is not a system where voluntary contracts can be overridden or redefined by a guy in a black dress with a wooden hammer, against the will of one or both of the parties involved.
Capitalism is a system of individual sovereignty where people are free to interact with each other voluntarily. Capitalism, peace, and liberty go together. One cannot exist for long without the other two.
As long as Congress, the president, and their armies of bureaucrats have the power to arbitrarily force their wills on the people, and political connections are the most important factor in success, there will be no capitalism in the USA.
Seriously, this will do *nothing* for the nutters that honestly don't think we've been to the moon.
Probably not. Pictures of the (mostly) spherical Earth from space, or looking at a ship over the horizon, have yet to convince the Flat Earthers (yes, they are real) that we live on an oblate spheroid. DNA evidence of our similarity to other primates has yet to convince the creationists that evolution is a valid theory.
Anti-science is like a religious belief (and in some cases has religious origins). It uses the emotional part of the brain, not the logical part, so logical arguments are useless in defeating it.
Don't forget it's a doorstop that's too low to stop most doors, a spoon with a handle that's too wide to wield properly, and vibrator that's too weak to give much pleasure.
Or maybe...it's a really good device for people who want something that's more portable than a notebook, for watching movies, playing video games, listening to music, having a video chat with uncle Frank in Ohio, browsing the web, or checking email.
Using your "logic", a notebook is just a workstation that's barely practical for CAD applications, and a cell phone is a (standard) phone that doesn't make calls in tunnels. Yet notebooks outsell workstations, and cell phones outsell wired phones.
I used my MacBook Pro as a dev box and a portable machine, but I noticed that the portability part was only entertainment and web use. So I sold it, and spent that money on an iMac that's more powerful than the MBP (and has a built in 27" display), and an iPad. I now have a much better dev box and a better portable entertainment device, for the same price. Every device category is a compromise between the size, price (or other property you want to minimize) of one neighbor category and the power, battery life (or other property you want to maximize) of the other neighbor.
Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop?
No, I don't. And I'd hope the security at the Apple Store is good enough to keep the Best Buy guys out!
Sounds like perfect cover. Who is going to believe the FBI is actually labeling their undercover surveillance van? It is so idiotic, it can't be true.
Ah, but they would have known you'd know that, so you clearly cannot choose the WAP in front of you!
Ooh! Did I just write the plot for Oceans N+1?
We don't shoot people unless it's the only way to stop a violent crime. Our rate of shooting people is a small fraction of that of the boys in blue. And our rate of shooting innocent people is nearly zero (the cops aren't even close).
However in my life I have never had a cop around when I felt threatened unless the cop was the reason that I felt threatened.
This is the sad truth. I am more afraid of being shot by a cop than by anyone else.
I'd feel more comfortable around a pimp or pusher with a gun in his belt than with a cop. Because the crook at least values business and doesn't feel an urge to shoot potential customers. There's a good chance he has that that gun to protect himself from the police or organized criminals who sponsor the local donut brigade.
Sadly...that makes sense. If the pimp kills you he faces decades in prison, or a date with the Chair. If the cop kills you, all he has to do is say you were a threat to officer safety, and after his two month paid vacation, he gets his gun and badge back.
However I'd feel even safer around an honest citizen who carries a gun for self-defense (like me).
They get suspension with pay while they are presumed innocent during an investigation. Police departments exist to ensure law and order is maintained for the safety and security of society. Without them, we have people taking advantage of others with no chance at justice. Take off your foil hat and enjoy the surroundings.
Did you just read that off of a pamphlet at your local police station...where they were too busy prosecuting victimless crimes like prostitution, drug use, and speaking out against injustice to get their solved rate for violent crimes above 50%?
Society is inherently ordered. We are mostly good people. We don't rape and rob each other because we know it's wrong, not because some doofus with a tin badge says not to. There are a few exceptions, but they're actually quite rare. In the USA most violent crime is related to the drug war (and a significant amount is committed by the guys with tin badges), which wouldn't exist if cops weren't maintaining "law and order".
Take the kool-aid IV out of your arm and introduce yourself to reality.
They don't just tax it because they can collect far greater tax revenue from the people if those people are afraid of the "dope fiends" raping their children and pets. The government scares the shit out of people with bullshit stories and then taxes the shit out the people to "keep them safe." This is why FEAR is listed first in FUD.
Also, the money they spend on fighting the drug war is used to further erode our rights, for our own good of course. The war on drugs has been the biggest hit to civil rights in the USA, although it might soon be surpassed by the war on terror.
I made a blog post about in in spanish a year or two ago, were I stated the premise that governments always try to profit the most out of people and all they do is try to maximize it, they will not prevent any kind of crime if it allows them to profit more than actually preventing it.
How do you explain that marijuana is outlawed? Why don't they just tax it?
I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but in the USA marijuana was outlawed under pressure from the tobacco, alcohol, and plastics (yes, plastics) cartels, due to its ability to hurt those industries (hemp can apparently be used to make high quality, low cost plastics).
I should have said "ruling elites" in my post above. Not all of the people who benefit from the cops are politicians and bureaucrats. Many are in "private" industries that have strong government influence (e.g. Wall Street banking).
I hope that this pig will be made to pay that woman heavy (heavy!) damages for all sorts of things, as a warning to other public servants who think they can get away with abusing their power. What a rotten piece of shiat.
Probably not. Even if she (or the guy he beat so badly it should count as attempted murder) wins any money, he, and the police brass who let it happen and covered it up, won't be out a penny. We the tax payers will end up covering the costs. And the cop will get a six figure annual pension after working for 25 years.
Fired? Cops don't get fired for beating and killing peons like you and me. They get a paid vacation...I mean disciplinary leave.
Cops aren't there to protect us from criminals (and as courts have repeatedly said, they're under no obligation to do so). They're there to protect the government class from its greatest foe: us, and to ensure that the other tax feeders can continue to suck us dry without fear that we'll resist. Once you understand the premise, it makes more sense.
William Grigg writes frequently about the constant abuse of power (and physical abuse of innocents) by the cops.
Just make 1 false. However, I can foresee a few unwanted side effects...