I don't usually start non-adult threads on GFY.
But damn.
I'm watching the news last night and they showed a quick report that there is a law being worked on in Illinois that says if you film a cop you will be arrested and face ten years in jail!
What a load of b.s.! So these bullies in uniforms (basically a legal gang with guns and full power over people) have been caught doing all kinds of crap (beating people etc.). And their answer is to make it illegal for you to whip out your cellphone and youtube their actions.
I know, I know...there are lots of "good" cops. Hell, my best coke dealer (and one of my best friends) back in South Carolina is a cop and has been for over 20 years.
But he, and one of my ex-partners (a cop), one of my brothers (sheriffs deputy), 3 of my cousins (cops), and my mom (sheriffs deputy) have all told me the stories of intimidating people just for fun and covering each other's asses when they do crazy shit.
I sadly predict that unless cops are reigned back in, there is going to be continued violent ends for many of them. People are scared of them. I think I'd rather get car jacked than to get pulled over late at night on a deserted road by the wrong cop.
They've been given way too much power over the last couple of decades. I still remember back in the late 1970's and 1980's when a cop could NOT search your car or even search you. Then the Supreme Court made a ruling allowing it to happen (against the bill of rights protection from unreasonable search and seizure), and in my opinion it's all been downhill since. All in the name of the "War On Drugs". And of course now at the airport: the "War On Terrorism"
Yeah we're free alright. Just don't get pulled over. And if you see someone getting the shit beat out of them by a cop...don't film it.