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"Nothing to Hide" by BreadPanes (lemmy.world)
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[–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This is one of many reasons why I got off of opiates. I spent a lot of time worrying about saying/ doing the wrong thing and winding up in jail. Then I’d detox in jail.

About 5 months after I got off of opiates I recorded some police officers arresting a man. At one point like 4 officers had this man on the ground and one officer started punching him. I started shouting at the officers that they had the man on his stomach. They didn’t have to punch him.

One of the officers approached me and told me to leave. I can’t begin to tell you how good it felt to tell him that I didn’t have to leave and wasn’t going to leave. I was fully prepared to go to jail over speaking up for a man I never met.

It’s a god damn shame the amount of freedom we as a society have given up for a false sense of safety.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I was actually jailed a few years ago for standing up to police who were accosting and allowing others to beat down a young girl. I was literally arrested for telling them they can't do that and arguing with one of the piggies about it. He wasn't too happy about having his behavior challenged.

    I would have to make a separate thread talking about what went down that day. I remember it all clearly, and feel so sorry for that poor girl to this day.

    Fuck the police.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, the whole system in America is fucked. Like, the punishment should be that you get removed from society. You lose your freedom. But we live in such a hellscape that somehow we’ve normalized treating people worse than we would treat any animal.

    My friend and I were talking the other day about people saying “don’t drop the soap”. Your friend is going to prison you tell him “don’t drop the soap”. A son goes to prison and dad says “don’t drop the soap”. The person saying that is essentially saying “I hope you don’t get raped”, and somehow that’s normal.

    Americans have got to rethink our punishment system.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I don't think it's anything to do with punishment, but the possibility the state can just disappear you.

    And not allowing the state to do anything about evil people, which is what this old broken system decided was okay, causes an even worse kind of tyranny, the kind inflicted upon you by the people around you -- in rampant abuse, mass rape, racism and genocide.

    We need to come up not only with a new system of government, but a new culture.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, I mean I agree with that. This is kind of relevant to what we’re talking about. But, I hate when I see a cool thing in Japan. Because, every time I see some art installations or some cool museum thing. The first thing I think is “That would never work in America. The people here are so rude, and trashy that they’d destroy it on the first day.”

    It makes me kinda sad that we don’t have enough pride in our society to want to improve it, and keep things clean and functional. To try for a better way.

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