Advice for the New Paupers
Oct 15th, 2008 at 3:59 pm by Susie
Everyone should read this. Yes, yes, yes:
CAR
Got one? Maybe you should sell it. Cars drain the last dollars out of you. And there’s something worse: Cops can smell desperation, and they hate the poor. I didn’t hate cops as much before, except drug cops, but God, I hate them now. The real purpose of cops is to keep poor people off the roads. That’s their only real goal. On my way to an interview for a job that could have gotten us out of the gutter, a cop stopped me because my insurance was two weeks overdue — for the simple reason that we didn’t have money to pay it. She gave me a $600 ticket for that, plus $120 for not having an updated address on my driver’s license. Then she called for a tow truck and told me, “So, a lesson learned here today!” as I watched my car get towed away and trudged off with our terrified dog down a typical Western suburban road: four lanes of fast traffic with no sidewalks. Are you poor? The cops are your enemy now. Accept it. The car is how they’ll try to get you. Sell it if you can — which is to say, if there’s any decent public transportation — hah! — where you live.
I saw in a movie, I think it’s ‘Transformers,’ on the side of the cop car, “To Punish and Suppress”
I love that.
‘Tis a shame the ignorant still don’t understand that the cops don’t WRITE the laws - they just enforce the ones that the GOVERNMENT enacts. But, I suppose that’s how they incite each other into the popular “the man is keeping us down” attitudes.
Although after reading the entire thing, I think most of it is going to come to pass for a lot of people… so it’s a good read. But the enforce/enact bugaboo just drives me nuts.
“Tis a shame the ignorant still don’t understand that the cops don’t WRITE the laws - they just enforce the ones that the GOVERNMENT enacts.”
As a citizen in his 6th decade, let me tell you what I’ve observed and experienced. I mean, as a guy with friends and family who, with all their foibles, are cops. As a guy who loves old trucks that run great, but look like hell sometimes. Many cops selectively enforce laws. Not everyone is treated equally. And, there has always been a war against the poor.
Driving without insurance drives me nuts. What a great way to inflict your problems on complete strangers doing nothing more than trying to get home.