Cops have the best drugs....

Regardless of whether the 10% or 90% claim not to be on the take, the foundation of any successful illegal enterprise requires the purchase of "protection", a cop. Actually any successful enterprise, legal or illegal needs the cover of the "authorities". If there is an obstacle it must be removed or altered in order for the enterprise to be profitable. "Prostitution" can be covered as being an "Escort Service", pharmaceutical companies protect their interests by making alternate medicines "illegal", illegal aliens would not find jobs if there was not an "authority" protecting the interests of the businesses that profit from their labor. We have an administration that is changing the laws by making wire tapping, torture and dismantling Habeas Corpus to market their "security" and "arms" enterprises.

If these activities are not illegal for a demographic then there is not a crime, lists are a good way to ensure this whimsy. There are several ways that this can be implemented and twisted into profit:

• Put the competitor onto a list.
• Have the enforcement, look the other way for "clients of choice".
• Remove the "balances" to the social processes.
• Interpret the laws in favor of the "client of choice".

The devil is in the details, how these laws are interpreted. The best example of a list implementation are the "grass" laws, targeting of a product that is a direct competitor to the profits of the "clients of choice". What better way to silence a population than to put them on a list, just look at the last seven years of American administration.

How many examples of looking the other way is there, for example some of the most disturbing individuals are cops, loud parties, free flowing drugs and who are you going to call, the cops ? What happens if you do, tickets, made up police reports, assaults, harassment and being accosted by the brothers in blue. Who are you going to call ? Go ahead write to the Police Chief, Mayor, try your representative, the Governor or try the press. Consider how many cops were on Al Capone's payroll, this did not stop with that period, it continues.

This is my favorite, the one level that might have a chance to "protect" the disposable people and this is through "representation". This is a check or balance and represents "competition" for questionable "initiatives". How does one neutralize this channel, make it impotent and ineffectual ? First one implements an initiative that floods the market with demand for the service, those "lists" work great. The profession is swamped with demand and by the nature of the services, they get to choose their "clients of choice" the rest get "processed". Even this is not satisfactory when one is trying to justify expanding a market. What they did in Virginia is to remove the Code of Professional Responsibility, which if you read one would discover that has words in it like "appearance of professional propriety", "competent" and "zealous" representation, these are words of strategy. With this policy in place a client could question the representation that was provided and possibly obtain support from the oversight institution whose goal was to ensure the integrity of the profession and avoid the appearance of impropriety. These policies have been removed, Virginia no longer addresses "strategy" complaints. With the demand of the market and the lack of oversight, representation becomes a numbers game, slanted in the favor of the crusader, one who has an outside agenda, motivation, such as defending a bad government policy, corporate malfeasance or protecting a persecuted sinner from a religious crusader. The client has no leverage over their retained professional, why should they represent a "disposable person" when there are other clients who can pay more and represent a customer base of choice or process a volume of many "disposables". There is no incentive to diligently go beyond the minimal, a religious crusader persecutes a "sinner" without opposition, a prosecutor goes on a rant to persecute a user of a prescription drug (social problem) without opposition, evidence never used is dismissed as a strategy call - next.

Interpretation of the law in favor of the "client of choice", our administration highlighted this implementation when it dismissed the seven U.S. Attorneys. Putting judges with questionable competence, bias and lacking the ability to be impartial gives advantage to the preferred customer on the bench. We have heard where preferential treatment was given to those of a certain demographic. For example I was told by my attorney that the store video was irrelevant, that I would not be believed (presumption of guilt) and that it is accepted that the police lie on their reports all the time.

There are problems with every process, we have observed our society regress decades in the past twenty years, with each line crossed. From dismissing false advertising, politicians being allowed to live in the pockets of special interest groups, corporate indiscretions overlooked, individual indiscretions prosecuted/persecuted to the fullest extent of the law - whatever that means. Now torture, police brutality, wire tapping, lists and failed performance is reduced to a few "bad apples", just how many "bad apples" are there ? Do the "bad apples" represent the 10% or the 90% ? I just remember the significant other of an individual who worked for a local Northern Virginia police department distributing drugs, the parties that came from that house. This couple has long since moved and been promoted to be in charge of a department in another State or so we have been told. In fact they were the ones that introduced us to the locals who when we told them to go away started vandalizing our home and harassing us, we were told they owned the community and when we called the cops, the cops we called wandered around looking official, stood there as these locals drove by yelling obscenities at us and then informed us that they could/would do nothing about it, the locals had a good crop growing in their house. It was so funny one time we got death threat and I tried telling a magistrate that looked like a hooker that I would like to take action, to this I was told that I could "take my best shot", they gave the wrong phone number to their supervisor and when I finally contacted the supervisor they said that their hooker magistrate was right. Prince William County Virginia is a great place to live, it provides so many colorful experiences for its population. Funnier still is that my ancestor was sheriff of this county and another signed the Declaration of Independence.