Cops are never sent to protect lives. Their job is to protect property and defend the status quo, hence are violent in their very nature.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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#650
If I should steal something from you, you can call a policeman and have me arrested. The law will punish the thief, and the government will return to you the stolen property, if possible, because the law forbids stealing. It says that no one has a right to take anything from you without your consent.
But your employer takes from you what you produce. The whole wealth produced by labor is taken by the capitalists and kept by them as their property.
The law says that your employer does not steal anything from you, because it is done with your consent. You have agreed to work for your boss for certain pay, he to have all that you produce. Because you consented to it, the law says that he does not steal anything from you.
But did you really consent?
Alexander Berkman | What Is Communist Anarchism?
#573
You see, there are people who believe that the function of the police is to fight crime. And that’s not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property.
Michael Parenti
#107
– Once the fire starts, the cops’ll cap off anything that moves. It’ll be an all-out war.
– Maybe it’s time for a war.
Strange Days (the movie)
#88
When I was 6, I saw two cops take a friend of mine outside and tie him to a pole. He was 12 years old and they shoved two shotguns into his mouth and broke his fucking teeth off, and then they popped two shotgun shells into his mouth and blew his fucking head off. Didn’t give a fuck about no police then. Don’t give a fuckabout no police now.
American Gangster (the movie)
