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[Andrew Vida]

Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:

>> 	CA has so changed since 76.  Couldn't pay me to live there anymore - 
>> though it can be pleasant enough to visit.
> It's a highly variable state with very different political and social 
> climes in different locations.

	I'm sure, but overall it is the land of the clueless where anything 
even remotely political is concerned.  When I lived there Orange County 
was the redneck capital of the universe.  No no mo'.

>> 	Of course it was.  Does LE get any more corrupt than in the Golden State?
> Sure...this was very minor corruption really..way nastier elsewhere.

	LA cops are the worst except maybe for Chicago.  NYC are pretty bad 
too, and of course NJ are near and dear to my heart.

>    Those people have no souls - in fact they
>> are not even human, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. 
>> I'd call them reptiles, but the insult to reptiles would be unconscionable.
> Bah...I disagree. Sure, some of them qualify, but most cops are OK and 
> some are excellent human beings. They are not responsible for bad law 
> and policies...that's a separate set of problems they take flack for.

	I agree, but their actions smack of "I'm only following orders" - which 
is one of the great cop outs of all time.

> They deal with the azzholes for us, day in and day out. I'm grateful for 
> that.

	I didn't ask them to take the job.

> It can't help but sour their outlook. One tends to become like the 
> people you are around to some degree. They have to fight that tendency 
> constantly.

	Agreed.  One of the most miserable jobs on the planet, largely because 
of all the shyte law they are required to enforce.  Could be changed, 
but I'd not hold my breath waiting.

> Fact is, most of us need them.

	Only because most of us have abdicated responsibility for our own lives 
at the most fundamental levels.  They do a lot of good stuff, but the 
bad that is done undoes all of that.