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In reply to the discussion: Derek Chauvin trial - Jaw drop moment with the current expert for the defense. [View all]jaxexpat
(7,794 posts)No matter which street. It's a logical thing really. It represents the concept that obeyance to legal statutes must prevail over anarchy in an orderly society wherein all are given equal justice before the law.
See the weak point in that? The naked truth of it? The, yet pulsating, nerve exposed in the autopsy of our essentially unlawful human nature? Okay, I'll provide a hint. It starts with I and ends with D and has 2 letters. Freud's understanding and appreciation of the mind's "wild side", individual as well as collective, was IMHO more far reaching than all the refinements wrought by the science of psychology since his exile by the NAZI's proved his point.
Cops are trained to put a damper on a streak of rebelliousness that runs true through every stage of any individual's personal evolution. It's why they seem so bent on pinning everyone down at one level or another. Demanding answers for questions they've no right to ask and throwing suspicion on those taken aback at their asking.
It may not end well until regulations just back the hell out of people's lives and let us respond to the purposeful, frenzied competition for decreasing resources on an overpopulated, yet finite, planet the way god intended. It's "gimme liberty or death, but gimme something" talk again already for goodness sakes.
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