Violent, abusive police are needed to control the poor in a system of extreme inequality

[Cheese Sandwich]

A really smart commentary by Paul Jay.

[rock]

1. Wow, I'm afraid he's right

Thanks to the bought out politicians.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

2. K&R

Spot on.

[rhett o rick]

3. And there are DU'ers, supposedly politically liberal, sided with the police in

their brutal treatment of OWS protestors. They are the same that hates whistle-blowers and journalists.

[loooneranger]

4. I don't understand the people who say "only the police should have guns"

Either you trust them or you dont, you can't have it both ways. In light of the history of police brutality it just seems ridiculous to insist on disarming citizens and allowing federal or state agencies to have a monopoly on force.

[GP6971]

5. So what are you recommending? n/t

[FairWinds]

6. The post is correct . .

When you create a desperate society,
you get desperate behavior.

I'm surprised that social unrest is not higher.

[truebluegreen]

7. Police forces were originally created to protect property,

not people. There certainly seems to be institutional memory of that.

[Fairgo]

8. Them belly full

But we hungry,
A hungry mob is an angry mob.

It is ever thus. A spiral of violence that begins innocuosly with the inception of class systems.