Appeals to supposedly immutable traits of human nature are almost always naive or question-begging. Some would say libertarianism is already a “utopian vision” just by opposing aggressive violence, because there’s nothing more human or natural than violent domination and extortion, etc.

Nothing and everything can be ‘realistically accomplished’, depending on how you mean that. My philosophy doesn’t depend on no one ever being a jerk any more than it does on no one ever being a murderer. It only depends on recognizing those things, confronting them. The world will most likely never be perfect; when one shitty thing passes, human ingenuity will no doubt conjure new shitty things to take its place. There will be no end of history, libertarian or otherwise, only constant effort and striving. Until we get hit by an asteroid or something.

Sorry, I’m all for marijuana legalisation, but it’s not legal yet, and this woman’s job is enforcing that bullshit on others. Make her pay the cost she has imposed on so many others.

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-jcr

It’s a well known Rule of the Street: Laws do not apply to those who enforce those laws on the rest of us. Not police, not prosecutors, not judges. Not even adjuncts who work in their offices. Certainly not their families.

Police and DWI.
Police and DV.
Police and beatings in general.
Police and speeding.
Etc.

Unless someone of “value” dies, the scene or evidence are always destroyed. Job #1 is to make certain that no investigation CAN be conducted.

Yes they do. But there are others in our society–granted priveleges, authority and treated like “heroes”–that do the same. While working in the healthcare security field I have watched as nurses and physicians violate policies, laws and, in my opinion, human rights, only to receive a slap on the wrist (if that). They ignore parking policies, they verbally abuse co-workers, they respond to difficult patients (drunks usually) by escalating the situation then playing the victim, they hold people against their will when they may not have legal reason to do so. Sometimes they steal drugs intended for patients, perhaps exacerbating the discomfort those patients are feeling. Real nice, huh. But you see, they are “angels” and they have stressful job. Sound familiar. What I’m getting at is that physicians, and now nurses, have a level of professional arrogance similar to police. And you can quote me on that one.

And what about management. Ah management. They are masters of covering for one another. My my, if it weren’t for the managers, shit wouldn’t get done in private organizations. Wage slaves like me are incidental. We could be replaced by robots. If we had any brains (read: connections and the ability to deep throat) we would be managers for christ’s sake. This, I’m afraid is the attitude of many salaried types.

For example, there is a security manager in my organization that has actually injured two employees while demonstrating wrist locks (I should mention that these were NOT training-related incidents and the manager did not have their consent). When I say injured I mean that these employees required significant medical treatment, including surgery. And this manager is still employed in my organization. Even though security personnel and others have advised HR of his lack of judgement multiple times. It’s good to be the king in a private organization too, CyniCAL.

So yes, CyniCAL, state agents do extend professional courtesy to one another. But in my experience, other “special” people in our society are able to repeatedly get away with unethical and criminal acts because of who they are. Self-styled elites in my organization (and probably yours) protect one another from the accountability that, it seems, is only reserved for peons like me. And then they hire lackeys and yes men to make sure the party never ends.

Though the state makes it easier for some to get away with their acts, the greater problem is privelege and egocentrism in our society. The state is just one piece of the puzzle. Removing the state won’t suddenly dissolve the “do you know who I am” mind set. You aren’t wrong, but I think your view is made myopic by your attachment to ideology. Anarchism is only a word. Words get in the way of authentic solidarity with fellow humans that are oppressed by multiple sources, not just the state.

Incompetent (yeah right) search procedures; a “Drug Warrior”-ess and stupid fucking moralising “You need to live how I want you to” cunt brought to ground.

Obviously we should all be outraged that this epitome of a Nanny-State preachy cunt didn’t actually get what she would have if she’d been an inner-urban black teen – the ‘Ooops…. bad search’ saw to that. (Seriously? How many articles have we seen where the results of bad searches have been admitted when it was just some ‘civilian’ in the dock?).

So maybe you’re right – torn between laughing my ass off at this retarded bitch’s public humiliation, and mad as shit because she doesn’t get to experience the full gamut of inhumanity that the War on Drugs (that pays her rent) slams on its victims: incarcration in the horror show that is the US pre-trial remand system, then a slanted trial with massively asymmetric resources, then off to a pentientiary. Then when she gets out, her life’s totally fucked forever. SHE DESERVED THAT (not for the drugs, but for being a cog in the tyranny machine). Hell, it might have done her some good – she could have had a Conrad Black style Damascene conversion.

I’m also mad as shit because fucking scum like this bitch don’t HAVE any humility, so they don’t actually experience humiliation… so on reflection my epicaricacy orgasm was for nothing. Doubtless she will simply feel she got her due as a member of the privileged caste.

What exactly is the evidence of this?

I like that! Now, in addition to the crime of “Driving while black”, we can add the crime, “Driving while little.”