On May 29, 2014 in Atlanta, GA in the U.S.A., police raided a home and tossed a flash bang grenade into the play pen with a sleeping 19 month old child in it. There were the usual howls of police brutality and the usual official declarations justifying the deeds done by the police. Standard operational talking points. It's hard to be a cop. Danger. Difficulty. Etc. These are all entirely moot. Because the point is, the whole War on Drugs with its insane brutality and overflowing prisons and bloody casualties has done nothing whatsoever with solving the problem of addiction in America. And that was supposed to be the point. If you have problems with addiction and drug abuse in your family, all the blood and the bullets and the dead cops and babies are of no help to you whatsoever. And they are certainly of no help to the families of those dead cops and babies.

 In my life time I have been assaulted numerous times, dodged bullets and knife wielding thugs, and been relieved of my hard earned property by cold hearted criminals. On every single one of these occasions I got my own self out of the situation. I have never ever been rescued by a cop. Never. On such occasions as I attempted to report these crimes after the fact I was told sorry there's nothing we can do because blah blah blah. I soon learned not to bother.

As it happens, the loudest and most annoying and overbearing of cop spokesmen preach about how we shouldn't criticize cops because of how difficult and dangerous their jobs are. As if none of the rest of us have to face violence and evil. In those situations where cops face evil people, there is usually someone else there too who is facing the same evil people, but the cops don't even notice that. If police were the only ones who ever suffered violence then we could rid the world of violence by ridding the world of cops. If the number of shoot outs and assaults a cop has lived through and the dangerous conditions he job puts him in is a reason to fall down in reverence at his feet then any drug dealer or human trafficker gets the same respect. I can never understand how cops go on and on and on over how difficult and dangerous their lives are, ignoring all the rest of us who suffer through the evil and violence of this world, and then self righteously chastise US because WE don't understand what it's like to be THEM.

You know what? You cops need to do your crying to your mamas. Because the rest of us are tired of listening to your whimpering. If you can't do the job then get the hell out and we'll look after ourselves.

auntieracist