GoodDoG wrote:
Beanfield was pretty harsh,those pesky cops feature again, is there a pattern forming here?
there is – but I think it goes deeper than that
cops (and soldiers) worldwide behave in such a manner not just because the nature of uniformed services attracts a certain kind of person, but also because the society that has put them on duty refuses to criticise them for doing so – or worse still supports them in their actions, particularly when they are reinforcing existing power structures…
I’m sure there are plenty of locals who would like to violently bust up a rave ,festival or any other gathering they do not agree with but of course do not have the physical strength or weaponry required to do so.
They also realise that they are outnumbered or that there will be reprisal attacks directed against them – so they get cops/soldiers to do the dirty work.
I’ve been reading about the downfall of Germany from 1918 until 1933 and the most frightening part of it is that ordinary citizens, particularly the middle classes, by and large supported the removal of their freedoms, and tightening up of authority that allowed a totalitarian Government to take power by using the existing democratic structure in a modern European nation
Previous to the rise of totalitarianism there were various experiments with alternative and permissive societies (there were a lot of avant-garde art movements in Germany as well as experiments with socialist/communist/anarchist communities)
The trigger points seem to be economic recession and a blow to “national pride” due to international pressures…
No one’s learned from this it seems… or perhaps people don’t want to learn from it…
