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Facebook Conversation between Alex Friedman (Bard University) and myself. 5:55 am 11/23/2010

Alex: I got arrested when I was a senior, and the arresting officer commented on my "free mumia" sticker and asked me why I supported cop killers

Alden:the better question is why do we support murderers (police officers)?

Alex:haha word. maybe because anarchy is not a sustainable system

Alden:who said anything about anarchy?

Alex:no cops= no governing authority= anarchy, no?

Alden: the only reason they're murderers is the people they report to and the political ideologies of the defense department and other radical, religious, right wing politicians and committees. I support a classical liberal/libertarian policy which still involves the existence of police officers.It's just in that system the officers are not at the whim of right wing radicals policing is definitely not inherently bad

Alex:true, but they do still have power and as we have learned from history, power corrupts.

Alden:cops in actuality don't have that much power besides physical force they have no governing or legislative power and that's the true power.

Alex:they don't need governing or legislative power, they are by definition an extension of that authority

Alden:exactly, so if that authority contains benevolent ideologies the police will as well

Alex:and that's where we separate because I believe that cops are "murderers" because they hold authority, it may not be legislative authority, but they have the power to stop you, to search you, to detain you, and if you piss them off, or challenge their authority, they have the power to persecute you. Even if the ruling body's ideology was not in line with that of the cops, to prosecute the cops would in turn, negate their authority, and then you have no one to "keep the peace". Unfortunately I think that no matter what, cops will abuse their power, because power corrupts and they are in a position to enforce their power by exerting control over the unarmed civilian with their guns and pepper spray. and they are the authority so they can always cry wolf, claim they were being attacked, they were defending themselves and more times than not, the judiciary will side with the cops, as is seen in many cases such as that of mumia and more recently sean bell

Alden:If police laws change, there actions will have to change as well their powers. If not people will be found that are open to change and reform in policing. Those will be the citizens employed as police officers, not intolerant, conservative, officers such as the ones seen in our current system.Read the paper man. This is great stuff though

Alex:I certainly will. I wanna keep talking but I'm kinda fucked for these papers it's crunch time.

Alden:best of luck, keep in touch

Alex:thanks man. will do

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1E29Xz/wondermark.com/c/2010-09-14-657stop.gif -hahaha thanks for showing me this Shannon McLernan. This is hilarious,witty, interesting, and deep.