Dear Police Officers and Fellow Humans,
I believe that most of you are decent men trying to make an honest dollar. I believe that most of you want to secure peace and freedom for your fellow citizens. The few police officers that don’t fall into either of these categories are not my enemies either. They are just humans who have been led to believe that people are bad and need to be punished. Look inside yourself, and try to understand how humans could be bad. Were they born this way? Aren’t we all born the same? Don’t we appreciate the innocence of children? So what happens to a human being from childhood towards adulthood that makes him/her bad? Do you suppose it is the surroundings that turns a pure heart into a cold heart? If so, what made the surrounding hearts cold? Weren’t those hearts affected by the hearts before them? Maybe it is the pure robbery that is invoked upon the majority of men and women today. Maybe it is the injustice and false freedom that has deadened the true spirit of humanity.
There was a day when slavery was perfectly normal. The slaves believed that it must be so, and the owners liked it that way. If a slave was to show his true spirit and speak out against his condition, he was beaten into subjection. Americans do not support that today. We see news reports of sweat shops forcing children to work across the world, and we get disgusted. The United States continually tries to free the world from the dictators that still survive today. Throughout history man has fought to be free. There is one last thing that stands in our way. That thing is money.
Look into the tasks that you perform everyday. How much of your job consists of protecting the money of the few men that rule this land? What about the government’s money? You and I both know that you will never stop everybody from speeding and breaking other traffic laws. So you pull over who you can, and cite them for violations that will cost them money. You pull over people who haven’t paid enough money to the government through licensing, registration, inspection stickers and insurance. You respond to calls to protect owners and insurance companies when a citizen might endanger his own life, but you will admittedly say that you are there to protect the money of the insurance company. I personally have been told that it wasn’t my life that mattered, what mattered was: If I hurt myself I would cost the owner or insurance company money in a lawsuit.
Money has caused one man to be respected when he wasn’t deserving of such respect. Another man who chose the wrong parents is spit on in the street. We are divided into classes even though this country is supposedly based on equality. You and I both know that we are not equal. The Declaration of Independence specifically claims that we all have the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. So let’s talk about each of those three rights.
On one hand, a certain side of the political map wants to protect human life after it is conceived. That side is against abortion, saying that God has sent this life to earth and the life deserves to live. Yet when this life does something deemed despicable, they have no problem executing him/her. If a group of human beings don’t agree with their teachings, they have no problem slaughtering them all in something we call war. So they only support life if it agrees with them. If they truly believed that God sent all lives to this earth, why don’t they realize that God might be sending a message by sending lives that oppose them? On the other side of the political map, they give everybody the freedom of choice, and generally do not support executions and war. But they choose to pass more regulations and laws that eventually cost the whole country money. More laws, more welfare, more government support. More money going through the government while they give themselves raises in salary. But it is not money that helps your fellows, it is hands. As long as it costs you money to help your fellows, helpfulness will decrease. Because spending money means spending time on the job to work for something that does not benefit yourself…which leads me to liberty.
There are a few people that drag themselves out of the ghettos, out of the projects, and out of poverty in general. But how much harder do they have to work to do so? Again, if they had chosen wealthier parents they would not have to work so hard to get ahead. But what if everyone got ahead? What if every single human being worked hard enough to stop working and started investing in stocks or property? What if everybody stopped committing crimes? Who would build the things that you see when you look around you right now? Who would pay the policemen if crime was effectively stopped? Do you see how it is not in your best interest to actually stop crime? So we do not have any liberty because if we did, this whole system would fall apart. There are plenty of humans in this country to do all of the work that needs to be done. But if a particular fellows skills aren’t marketable, he must do something he is probably not as effective at doing. These are the men that turn to crime. Drug dealing, robbery, and burglary not to speak of organized crime pay a lot of money if one doesn’t get caught. There are two types of crime: A crime of passion, and pre-meditated crime. In a crime of passion, the criminal isn’t thinking about the police or the consequences of their actions. In a pre-meditated crime, the criminal tries to make plans to get away with his crime. In fact if he is caught, he usually can point to the mistake that hurt his chances of getting away with his crime. Instead of trying to punish criminals, we need to find out why they needed to commit a crime in the first place. And that, my friends, leads us to our pursuit of happiness.
The pursuit of happiness is a complete joke in this country. We are only allowed to pursue happiness that doesn’t go against the wishes of the majority party. We are only allowed to pursue happiness if we have the money to do so. For the sake of human safety, the pursuit of happiness doesn’t include murder, rape and assault. But what is wrong with a man wandering through forests at whatever time he chooses? Trespassing laws, and state/federal parks closing times prevent this. What is wrong with broadcasting material over the airwaves when a majority of people want to see and hear it? The FCC prevents this, despite the money people spend on pornography in this country. What is wrong with ingesting drugs, when certain drugs are legal, and lots of prescription drugs are advertised hourly? We should be allowed to risk our own lives if we wish, and most drug crimes are committed because the drug is illegal. Black market soldiers fighting over territory, or users not having enough money to pay for the drugs cause most drug crimes. Some of these might not suit your own pursuit of happiness, but in a country of three hundred million and a world of six billion, how can you expect everybody to feel like you?
So how much of your job consists of keeping people safe? And how much of your job is to protect money? And when you’re protecting that money, does it make your heart glad with pride? Wouldn’t you rather have true respect from others, instead of a false forced respect? I know we can’t change this over night, but we are starting to change our values already. At this point, it doesn’t matter who we vote into office, it is not We the People that decide on the laws in this country…most of us can’t even be bothered to find out what new laws have been passed. It is not tax money that helps keep the streets safe…it is you. It is not tax money that repairs the roads…it is working men. It is not money that helps people be healthy, it is the caretakers at the hospital. It is not money that built your house, it was carpenters, plumbers, electricians, and so on… Yet these people will never have the money or respect that our congressmen have. Nor will they ever be looked up to like we look up to Donald Trump or the Heinz family. But without these workers, without you and I, this world would be nothing. Yet those few fortunate ones that seem to rule this land have convinced you to protect them for a fraction of the money they are asking you to protect. They laugh at you for your stupidity. They laugh at our military when they send them off to war. Yet you continue to protect them. The only time they will show you an ounce of respect, is in front of television cameras, a large crowd of people, and to your face. Join us, not them…we are the ones that will truly respect you.
It needs some work, I need to simplify some things, but I'll come up with a final copy.
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