Code Monkey Ramblings

I have never pretended that I am a big fan of what law enforcement has become these days. Ironically enough, for a lot of my life, to a lesser degree, even now, I wish I could be a cop, but the laws are so corrupt these days that I could never look myself in the mirror every morning without feeling like I had become the very sort of monster I was paid to hunt. When I read things like this, and realize that being a cop is not about protecting the community, but about enforcing the laws of the state, even if they are brutal, inhumane and Godless, I realize I made the right decision:

"He said, 'No, I will come to your house with a uniformed officer, and I will take your son by force if he resists. And I will take him to somebody who will do that.'

"And I said, 'I don't think I can let you do that.'"

He added there have also been other threats to take Abraham away from the family.

"They told Abraham that if he did not go and have an X-ray, they would put him in a juvenile detention center with drug dealers. They told him that if he did not do that they would put him in a foster home. ... We never thought that people could actually say that to a young fellow like that. We've been surprised by lots of stuff but we have a strong faith and we believe that we'll prevail. We think there will be a judge that will use common sense and compassion and grant a stay on that [mandated chemotherapy] order."

This began with the War on Drugs, and has only gotten worse as the ruling class has added to the list of things that we cannot do with our own bodies. At sixteen, he is no child. He is one year away from being able to serve in the military with his parents' permission. Yet, the state treats him like a child and forces him to take a treatment that was torturous for him to go through the first time and that he adamantly does not want to go through again. It failed the first time, and it shows no signs of working again, but that won't stop the officious fascists in Virginia's "social services" agencies from making such a fundamental decision as getting pumped full of radiation for him.

It is bad enough that they are forcing him to undergo this treatment. It is even worse that these social services cretins don't even have medical degrees and professional experience with the same. They are no more qualified to make such decisions than he is, and what's even worse, is that they won't even have to live with the consequences of his decision. And... society won't even suffer. This is not mandatory rehab, this is just a question of whether a near-legal-adult should have to undergo a painful treatment that probably won't buy him anymore time on this rock.

The cop who is brought along to enforce this law should look at himself in the mirror, and ask himself "am I protecting this guy, or am I do nothing more than enforcing a policy of the state?" The obvious answer is the latter. His parents haven't neglected him; they got him the very treatment that the social services people want to force on him--and it failed. The cop should refuse to escort them, and if that is not an option, if the cop is a decent human being who loves his country and community at all, should resign from his job.