Police State?

[greynotsoold]

Supposedly, this is the land of the free. So I wonder how you can make things illegal based on a person's associations and the perceived threat to society of those associations? In my mind, that would make it illegal for Democrats, Republicans, Congress and scores of others to associate.
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Around 1980, in this same neighborhood, a cop was hit in the eye with a rock. Law enforcement agencies were called in from the surrounding area and the neighborhood shut off while cops went door to door and beat people with sticks. Very poor area, with no plumbing until the 1970s, and pavement came well into the 1980s.

I'm not sure what your point is Grey, I take it this is a notorious, drug/gang infested area, in California?
I doubt if the police would be fucking with this trash if they weren't doing something illegal. In the name of "freeedom" are we suppose to let these people do what they want, please correct me if i'm wrong.
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It is an old, 'established' gang neighborhood. Goes back 60 or 70 years. Back in the 1970s they were at war with my neighborhood, and that (and the Chino/Pomona war) spawned federal and state investigations. I haven't lived there for years, but I know the violence has gone down, that this 'varrio' has been essentially paved over, and that there is drug dealing going on there.
My point is this: Once we make it ok for the government to tell certain people that they cannot do legal things (for example, associate with people that they have known for four generations, or go out after 10pm, or hang out in front of their homes), then we are all screwed. They want to ban Cuca Kings from doing these things..,.why not Libertarians, or whatever? We live in a society that functions on legal precedent and once it becomes ok to do this, we are all at risk.
This is primarily vengeance for something that happened in 1980, when a sheriff had his eye damaged by a rock thrown at him. At that time, the neighborhood was sealed off for two days and a GANG of cops went door to door and beat women and children and dragged every male off to jail. This type of thing is not uncommon. Happened in the Casa Blanca neighborhood of Riverside as well, back in the late 1970s.

[pacfan]

Tough locally today. Two cops indicted for manslaughter for shooting and killing an unarmed teen while executing a search warrant....for pot! Hate to say, but shootings are a daily thing here. Cannot imagine wanting that job.

On the flip side two separate incidents where cops were ambushed. 3 wounded at a ship yard and while looking for suspects at a local trailor park and cuffing a guy...a guy came behind them and mowed them down with an AK. 2 Officers dead and 5 suspects arrested.

Yo, Spico, it's been awhile, hope you've been doing well.

I was sort of joking sort of not too.

You cant bury someone in flood... so a floating funeral prior send em off down the street the way they came, its like a hot message in a bottle so to speak. Art of warfare and all that.

You know, it would help, ecologically speaking and that

You cant have that shit floating around for weeks.

Anyway protect your misses and your self and if it ever it did come to it (God forbid) dont allow it to get in the way of your own higher path is what I was trying to portray.
You are allowed to protect yourself and your loved ones without having to answer for it outside of here and now.

Ya I know it was a half-joke. Me and Spico used to talk about wars, WWII, and I love watching and reading war movies, docu's and stories. I like the real stuffs 'cause they make me feel about the real, mostly horrible situations in foxholes and war fronts. They make me feel that compared to them, with bombs flying over, we're in much, much safer place. And we should be thankful for that.

And, don't worry mate, I've been ready ever since but my problem is how my iron fist will fare against the semi-auto's. I don't wanna know. I think I'll just get a 12 guager with a chopped off top. Kiddin' aside, it's been years so I think we're safe, just being careful. Well the sky is blue so I gotta get going. Be back when the rain comes again.

[Bobthepen]

This kind of thread makes me glad I live in the UK.