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RE: NO CONCLUSION - A thought Experiment
Greetings @meno
If you have not done anything wrong, there is nothing to fear. Better to stop the vehicle and see what the officer wants. They are routine procedures. And the officer is only doing his job. Kindness will not take away your bravery.
Not necessarily so. They now have a perverse incentive for legalized theft (sometimes goes by the names of "civil asset forfeiture" or "equitable sharing"). This program started back in 1965 after the Watts riots in LA in which the police chief complained that they were out gunned, which formed the political will to create SWAT. Then Reagan got the idea that it would be good to steal the drug money from drug cartels to fund government operations in the 1980's. More money was pouring into police departments and military surplus from government. This part is not as bad because what police seized, they handed over to government which limits an incentive to do wrong.
Where they went wrong is when police unions and lobbyists got together to rewrite these civil asset forfeiture laws to make it legal for police to keep what they confiscate for themselves, even without charging others with a crime. So they're not necessarily just "doing their job". They're shopping for raises which means they tend to pull over expensive vehicles in the hopes that they will get to steal it to beef up department revenues. Some have even been caught planting drugs for this very reason or offering half of any cash they find back in exchange for a signed agreement not to legally purse the department for stealing. I stopped buying new vehicles for this reason in 2001.
The reason I know this is because several in my family are cops or have been and I have also been a victim of this practice (in which the search was immediately dropped when they found out I was driving a rental and that they couldn't steal from Hertz). In fact my great grandfather was former police commissioner for the city of Syracuse, NY. He would turn in his grave over what the department has become.
When you give them the right to keep legally what they take without being charged for a crime, that has turned all badge wearers into road pirates.
Greetings @zoidsoft
I understand what you are talking about, I live in Venezuela, where every day I see injustices. I think that the way to correct these situations is with study, the more prepared we are, the more knowledge we have, we will understand that with those actions we do not benefit. Anarchy must be avoided, let's see the example of Venezuela Fair knowledge and laws to be fulfilled, that is the solution.Venezuela is not anarchy. This is a common misconception that the public has is that anarchy = violence. Anarchy really means nobody should be a slave and that individuals should own themselves. It means that borders should not exist to create monopoly power over citizens by a given state to create cattle of them by which the state acts like a parasite from their labor stealing their wages. Tim Draper has talked about nations competing for their citizens in the near future (Estonia and Liberland for example). States commit violence, or rather, badge wearers acting on a legal fiction commit violence against others under command of slave owners (the rulers). Anarchy literally means "no rulers".
What anarchy doesn't mean is lawlessness. You can have rules without rulers. It's called natural law, and nature already lives under these rules for billions of years. What you are living in right now is the end result of statism which is a cataclysm of violence. Anarchy comes later if you're lucky enough to outlast the violence to a point where coercion is no longer necessary in human relationships. Hopefully bitcoin will be a catalyst and later on, smart contracts can replace the legal system (by opting in instead of opting out). I've written about this on my blog here a couple of years back.
Here is a closer example to true anarchy:
BINGO! you get it... hahahhaha i wish more people would.