Shot to death at the IHOP

Long story short - A pack of drunken teens flee an IHOP after skipping the bill. Uniformed officer runs outside to stop them. The stories differ - officer says they aimed the SUV at them; kids say they were trying to get away.

Either way, one kid is dead.

We live in a society where the Police are viewed as menaces to society - hired thugs for an oppresive government; some kind of G. Gordon Liddy thug character. We say it's their fault every time that someone dies at their hands - and when the cop is the one that dies first we very rarely express the same kind of rage that we do when he fires first.

Recently an officer in Ontario was repremended for drawing a X on a Native flag - an act of overt racism. Yet to call the officer a pig, a fucking swine beast communazi shit-faced redneck motherfucker is okay - even a little passe. We can hit them, spit on them and do whatever we please; they cannot do the same.

But that's not what this is really about. This is a case of the officer doing his job; what he had previously sworn to do. He put his life on the doing his job; it's just that somebody else did too, perhaps unknowingly - he had to know that cops carried guns, though - and they lost the game.

Click. Bang - that's all it took.

But that's not the end of the story; not by a longshot. Whereas if the officer was hit, perhaps killed, by the SUV we'd express a small amount of outrage - for a few hours, anyway - this time we're going to get the bottom 0f this. This was the pig's fault; he overreacted to the situation; he should be brought to justice, dammit. And he'll get dragged over the coals for this; thrown under the bus; whatever metaphor you want - he'll have shit to pay.

Well hey - this is the 21st Century. The Goverment taps yr phone; they can check where you go on the Internet; The Smoking Man has created an illusion of Democracy to appease the masses - that's why we have Prime Time TV, NASCAR and 21 different magazine reporting on the same celebrites - right? Let's all get together and protest this horrible act; and then we can all smoke some of this fine hashish that I stole from that dumb assfuck hippie on the corner and listen to some Fitty.

Well - maybe this is it. Maybe the Police are the New Enemy.

And maybe, down in the parking lot of an IHOP an officer acted justly and rightly - but we'll never admit that. We would have ran, turned our back and just ate in peace. It's Somebody Else's Problem; never our own. But then again, we wouldn't have had the guts to face a car full of drunken teens driving right at you, aiming to kill you for no good reason at all. And we can't stand it that somebody did - the fact that someone died is secondary, really, but it sure provides a better looking piece of ground to occupy - much better then the ground we already occupy.