Reply #7: let me just make a few points [View All]

[el_gato]

We live in a very complex and energy intesive society or system. The amount of force necessary to keep this society running is incredible and ulitimately it is an uphill battle. I am not just talking about force applied on the citizenry to conform to the overall parameters of behavior that is accepted (who sets these parameters, by the way?) but also the forces necessary to physically keep all of the machines humming. Part of this societal structure that is necessary for the global capitalist (communism too) system is massively concentrated populations, i.e. workers. When the ideas of mass commodity production and proto-capitalism was in it's infancy many people rejected this effort to push people into cities. It wasn't long after that that we saw the genesis of patrolling forces. In other words, we live in a manufactured world that makes the police necessary if we are going to continue to live this way. But make no mistake, the police are there to make sure the "system" continues. If the police were moved from the equation there would be upheaval but eventually things would settle down and a restructuration would occur.

There is no point in pretending that the police are there to ensure anything other than the maintenance of the status quo.