ISSUE #113: Police arresting hecklers of Prince Andrew shows who it protects and serves.
Don't think of police what they are not.
As the coffin of the late British monarch - Elizabeth II - was being driven through the streets of Edinburgh, the police arrested a guy who was heckling Prince Andrew.
In the recorded video, the guy appeared to be shouting “Andrew, you’re a sick old man!” as the procession was passing.
The rest of his words couldn’t be heard as the crowd around him drowned his voice. The police immediately pulled that guy out of the crowd and arrested him for no other reason except he was heckling Prince Andrew. Notice how the people around him defended the policeman and pushed him out, that’s the highest form of Monarchy madness this week, according to me.
One thing that needs to be mentioned is that the Western public is so propagandized that it thinks the death of a Queen cancels out the crimes of the royal family. Imagine the cop arresting a guy for yelling at a Nazi collaborator as he walked behind Hitler’s procession and the people around defending the cop.
Here’s what the arrested guy had to say after his arrest:
“Powerful men shouldn’t be allowed to commit sexual crimes and get away with it.”
He said this in reference to a lawsuit filed by Virginia Giuffre - an Australian lady - in which she accused Prince Andrew of sexually abusing her multiple times when she was 17, after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein - a name which has become synonymous with sex trafficking.
The fact that a guy yelling at a sex offender gets arrested while the actual sex offender roams freely shows who the police and the legal system serves and protects. If you want to mourn over something, let it not be the death of a Queen who protected a sex offender from facing a trial, but the fact that the legal systems are societies are built upon are not equal for everybody.
Julian Assange gets arrested for ripping the mask off of the America’s war machine while those operating the machine are having every imaginable comfort in their life.
The primary purpose of the police is not to protect the civilians from criminals or to maintain law and order; that’s a cover for their primary role of defending the unjust society in which the working class is kept inferior to the capitalists and, I hate to say it in the 21st century, monarchs. The police never act as a neutral institution in a conflict between the powerful and the powerless, the working class and the capitalist class, oppressor and the oppressed; instead, they act as an arm of the capitalists to defend the status quo which is built around exploiting the working class and the wealth it produces.
Consider any historical example in which the people rose up against the authority, in none of those historical incidents would you see the police standing with the people. They always side with the authority and direct their violence towards the dissidents who challenge the authority.
Leon Trotsky, writing about cops in the 1930s, said,
“The worker who becomes a policeman in the service of the capitalist state, is a bourgeois cop, not a worker. Of late years, these policemen have had to do much more fighting with revolutionary workers than with Nazi students. Such training does not fail to leave its effects. And above all: every policeman knows that though governments may change, the police remains.”
Police doesn’t represent the people, it represents the powerful; as a matter of fact, it came into being to suppress the riots and the workers who protested against their exploitation during the early years of industrial capitalism.
Before the 19th century, there was no such thing as police as we understand it today. In the Southern United States, the closest thing to a police force were the slave patrols who were “were organized groups of armed men who monitored and enforced discipline upon slaves in the U.S. Southern states,” according to Wikipedia. There is no way to differentiate between the then slave patrols and today’s police force - both act as an attack dog for the masters and capitalists respectively. The only difference is that the slaves have been transitioned to the wage-slavery masquerading itself as freedom to work anywhere in a capitalist society. The slaves of yesterday are the employees of today, the slave patrols of yesterday are the policemen of today, the masters of yesterday are the capitalists of today, but the only thing to remain consistent throughout is whose interests are being served.
If you believe in “Defund the Police” mythology because you think it has deflected from its purpose of protecting the population, you are wrong; not about the defunding of the police but about what you think was the purpose of the police, which was never to protect the population.
Our schools and parents teach us to show respect to the policemen wherever we see them, our movies portray them as heroes, but those who oppress us and defend those who enable our oppression are neither our heroes, nor do they deserve any respect.
I am not saying that there shouldn’t be any institution to maintain order in society; what I’m saying is that our current way of maintaining “order” is less about maintaining the order and more about maintaining the unjust status quo. A democratic police system is what I advocate for, the one in which the members are elected by the people and the elected ones are always accountable to the public, unlike today.
Only then can we imagine a world in which the real criminals are being arrested, not the ones who expose them or heckle them. In that world, there would be no one to heckle Prince Andrew like today because Prince Andrew would not be roaming freely like today.
What you think about the role of police in today’s world?. Tell me in a comment.
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