Re: RAT Cheese it, the Fuzz!

[P1d2o3b@aol.com]

> But the psychology of cops is rooted in 
>  >fear, anger and pain:  they became cops in the first place [to] deal with 
a sense of personal 
>  >helplessness and terror.  ... smacked around by their Daddy's when they 
were 7.   Or  thrashed in the schoolyard.  ... violated people ...guns and 
truncheons sprout[ing] from their hands as a direct 
>  >consequence, like dark flowers.
>  >
>  >When they hear protesters calling them Nazis and mind-slaves, that 
>  >pathetic terrorized seven year old wakes up from his traumatized 
>  >slumber and now he has access to weapons. 
>  >
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To Bill, I think,
The above, like the other thing you wrote later,  is appealing.

And then I think, appealing like all the macho-sado-big-bucks-making
films my sons tell me are high art, not to promote violence, but reveal 
it.  I, and I am sure I am not alone, was arrested and brutalized for
doing a street theatre piece when and where it was not done (the night
Reagan was elected, in Birmingham Alabama) by just the sort of cop
you describe as your dad.  The DA who had to prosecute me because
he has to work with the cops,; the  judge who had to convict me of
assaulting the cop (because the police manual instruction then was to charge 
anyone
who may charge false arrest or police brutality with assaulting the police) 
because
he had to continue dealing with the police, and even the cop himself a few 
years
later, (after he had lost his job and been through therapy -- I was not the 
first victim, just the last straw)all apologized and explained  just as you 
did in a way that evoked compassion for this Vietnam vet, whose wife had long 
sense escaped to the shelter for battered women, and whose son may by now be 
on the force in Seattle, or be you.

Learning that brutes have been brutalized, or would you have it, that 
brutalization begets
brutes, is good.  Is good if the next step is tabooing brute behaviour.  
Southern baptist
cops taboo brute behaviour, I know.  And really brutalize women, homosexuals, 
children, and African americans they catch violating the taboo.   One thing 
about the religion of 
people who get away with brutalizing others is they are saved.  Their God 
forgives them.
The center piece of the religion of Jews, muslims, even Catholics before a 
month ago, was
repentence and atonement, with no guarantee of forgiveness.  

I really don't need art to reveal the brutalism experienced in the rearing of 
the American brute. I self edit to say "rearing" because the usual term, 
"Socialization," is rather inappropriate.  

I apologize, ever so slightly, for intruding into this rat-list discussion.  
Its promise was
so enticing or v v.   Now, to elude  Tsktskerification, you boys will just 
have to sneak off
to the barn.

Some of you may get the point, boring to those who need to.  Art does not 
patronize.  It's almost as off putting as being slapped around.
 Peggy