Learning What It’s Like To Be Serfs?

“We are heartbroken … It’s painful to wake up in the morning to know some of your brothers … have been killed.”

You might suppose the speaker to be a relative of Philando Castile or Alton Sterling, or some other black American serf (not because cops don’t kill whites—they do; in fact, most of their victims are white, even if a disproportionate number aren’t. But whites don’t typically speak of “brothers”).

And you’d be wrong. Our mourner is “Lafayette[, LA] Police Chief Reginald Thomas,” one of the cops USAToday interviewed for its sob-story on the “heavy emotional toll” that “Violence” is “taking … on police officers.” That “Violence” would be ours against them, not theirs against us.

Our Rulers’ ham fist is so obvious in this article that I’ll bet USAToday dispensed with reporters and editors and simply took dictation. The resulting propaganda dovetails with Leviathan’s other efforts at humanizing the police-state, at trying to convince beaten, bloodied serfs that cops’ predations are good for us, if only we were grateful and smart enough to realize it. Worse, the beast’s efforts are paying off: after the (possibly false-flag) massacres of cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge, too many Americans feel sorry for the Brutes in Blue.

“We have a family.” Ditto. “We have dreams.” Yep. “We have goals, and we have a name.” As did your multitude of victims, Mike. “I think it’s so easy to get past that sometimes because it’s a police officer who pulled me over, so you’re not happy.’”

Astounding, isn’t it? Cops not only prey on us, they condemn us for resenting the theft. Yo, Mike: only contemptible cowards lurk in medians, waiting to pounce on and loot us. Ditto for those who ruin a kid’s life because he enjoys his weed. And don’t prattle that police stop the competition from robbing us: cops very seldom if ever prevent real crime, and the few times they do, it’s simply to gull the sheeple into excusing their overwhelming depredations. “Who’s gonna protect us if we don’t have police?” they bleat.

But please God, more and more of them reject this pretext. Increasingly, Americans realize we pay for “police protection” with our blood: in the ten days between July 7’s five dead cops in Dallas and Baton Rouge’s ambush of three on July 17, police nationwide slew almost four times as many of us. And only ten of those 31 fatalities were black. Not that it matters—but let’s repudiate the notion that black Americans alone die from serficide. This tragedy affects all of us, regardless of color.

Meanwhile, all this horror has produced a tiny bit of good. “Maj. Eddie Thibodeaux of the St. Landry, La., Sheriff’s Office said law enforcement officers there” are on such “high alert” that they no longer “have routine traffic stops…” Yay! Less plunder and humiliation of the serfs!

Even so, the police-state continues its war on us. No one, whatever his color, should mistake the battle for one of the cops against blacks or blacks against whites.

It’s cops against all of us.

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