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I never thought that I woud agree with G. Gordon Liddy on anything, but he was right: the police are nothing but jack-booted thugs.
You need a time out. Even if it was just about the the proper way to prepare and eat rat, one should never admit to agreeing with Liddy about anything.
The police are an arm of the state, empowered by law to use non-negotiable, coercive lethal force in accordance with situational exigencies (discretion).
Or something like that. I'm surely forgetting a few terms and clauses in the definition but that's the gist of it and I'm too lazy to go rummaging through old college notes right now. In most cases, they are doing what they do in the honest belief they are protecting lives and property and maintaining law and order.
