>No, not all cops are bad
>people but we are really
>speaking of them in the
>context of their jobs and
>in that capacity, they are
>agents of repression. We
>used to call them rollers
>back in the 80's in
>LA, funny we used to
>call them the pattyrollers during
>slavery. I guess the more
>things change the more they
>stay the same...

with this -- they are frequently agents of repression/suppression, and the roller/pattyroller description is often fitting.

The
>real question in my mind
>is, why the double standard?
>Why are our lives so
>less valuable and why does
>everyone accept that? Really,
>Nat Turner knew that the
>slave master was a human
>being, with a family and
>all that but when someone's
>existence is predicated on your
>(mine and our) oppression, a
>choice must be made! If
>we want Black and Latino
>lives valued, we the ones
>gotta value em'.

with this also -- i don't buy into the propaganda that their lives are more valuable than any and everyone else's. as a matter of fact, when it happens to be an individual among them who is actively about repression/suppression, then i think its fair to value that life *less* than that of others. i damn sure won't shed no tears for dead klan, and if someone has on a 'blue' robe, the principle holds. like i said, i think dude misinterpereted my previous post.

>To paraphrase June Jordan, "What chu
>think, if everytime they take
>one of us out, we
>take one of them out,
>how many of us would
>keep being killed?..."

whole 'nother issue, which i don't have time to deal w/ right now, but i'll get back...