@HoraceGreenley Some people will sell their souls to kiss the asses of Slave Patrollers who murder Black people.
As agents of the State, the Slave Patrollers who murdered Floyd in cold blood violated the 8th Amendment and should have been given life-in-prison sentences. They are a disgrace to all of the other psychopaths who are members of the Slave Patrol.
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@HoraceGreenley "The 8th Amendment has nothing to do with Floyd. Nor does the pro-Palestinian sentiment."
So, you think it is perfectly acceptable for psycho Slave Patrollers to physically abuse people they encounter to the point of death. You should have lived in the 1820s instead of the 2020s.
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@Diotrephes First there are no slaves in this story. Secondly, there are no "psychos" in this story. Thirdly, no one was abused. The 8th amendment still isn't applicable and you are antisemitic.
@HoraceGreenley [quote]First there are no slaves in this story. Secondly, there are no "psychos" in this story. Thirdly, no one was abused. The 8th amendment still isn't applicable and you are antisemitic.[/quote]
[quote]So, you think it is perfectly acceptable for psycho Slave Patrollers to physically abuse people they encounter to the point of death. You should have lived in the 1820s instead of the 2020s.[/quote]
You really love to push fairytales, don't you? Instead of living in the 1820s you would have been much happier living in a cave 30,000 years ago.
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[b][i][c=BF0000]The Invention of the Police Why did American policing get so big, so fast? The answer, mainly, is slavery. [/c][/i][/b]
"The government of slavery was not a rule of law. It was a rule of police. In 1661, the English colony of Barbados passed its first slave law; revised in 1688, it decreed that “Negroes and other Slaves” were “wholly unqualified to be governed by the Laws . . . of our Nations,” and devised, instead, a special set of rules “for the good Regulating and Ordering of them.” Virginia adopted similar measures, known as slave codes, in 1680:
It shall not be lawfull for any negroe or other slave to carry or arme himselfe with any club, staffe, gunn, sword or any other weapon of defence or offence, nor to goe or depart from of his masters ground without a certificate from his master, mistris or overseer, and such permission not to be granted but upon perticuler and necessary occasions; and every negroe or slave soe offending not haveing a certificate as aforesaid shalbe sent to the next constable, who is hereby enjoyned and required to give the said negroe twenty lashes on his bare back well layd on, and soe sent home to his said master, mistris or overseer . . . that if any negroe or other slave shall absent himself from his masters service and lye hid and lurking in obscure places, comitting injuries to the inhabitants, and shall resist any person or persons that shalby any lawfull authority be imployed to apprehend and take the said negroe, that then in case of such resistance, it shalbe lawfull for such person or persons to kill the said negroe or slave soe lying out and resisting." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police
[b][i][c=BF0000]THE ORIGINS OF MODERN DAY POLICING[/c][/i][/b] "SLAVE PATROLS The origins of modern-day policing can be traced back to the "Slave Patrol." The earliest formal slave patrol was created in the Carolinas in the early 1700s with one mission: to establish a system of terror and squash slave uprisings with the capacity to pursue, apprehend, and return runaway slaves to their owners. Tactics included the use of excessive force to control and produce desired slave behavior.
"I [patroller's name], do swear, that I will as searcher for guns, swords, and other weapons among the slaves in my district, faithfully, and as privately as I can, discharge the trust reposed in me as the law directs, to the best of my power. So help me, God." North Carolina Slave Patrol Oath
Slave Patrols continued until the end of the Civil War and the passage of the 13th Amendment. Following the Civil War, during Reconstruction, slave patrols were replaced by militia-style groups who were empowered to control and deny access to equal rights to freed slaves. They relentlessly and systematically enforced Black Codes, strict local and state laws that regulated and restricted access to labor, wages, voting rights, and general freedoms for formerly enslaved people." https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing
[b][i][c=BF0000]Slave Patrols: An Early Form of American Policing[/c][/i][/b] "The American South relied almost exclusively on slave labor and white Southerners lived in near constant fear of slave rebellions disrupting this economic status quo. As a result, these patrols were one of the earliest and most prolific forms of early policing in the South. The responsibility of patrols was straightforward—to control the movements and behaviors of enslaved populations. According to historian Gary Potter, slave patrols served three main functions.
“(1) to chase down, apprehend, and return to their owners, runaway slaves; (2) to provide a form of organized terror to deter slave revolts; and, (3) to maintain a form of discipline for slave-workers who were subject to summary justice, outside the law.”[i] Organized policing was one of the many types of social controls imposed on enslaved African Americans in the South. Physical and psychological violence took many forms, including an overseer’s brutal whip, the intentional breakup of families, deprivation of food and other necessities, and the private employment of slave catchers to track down runaways.
Slave patrols were no less violent in their control of African Americans; they beat and terrorized as well. Their distinction was that they were legally compelled to do so by local authorities. In this sense, it was considered a civic duty—one that in some areas could result in a fine if avoided. In others, patrollers received financial compensation for their work. Typically, slave patrol routines included enforcing curfews, checking travelers for a permission pass, catching those assembling without permission, and preventing any form of organized resistance. As historian Sally Hadden writes in her book, Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas,
“The history of police work in the South grows out of this early fascination, by white patrollers, with what African American slaves were doing. Most law enforcement was, by definition, white patrolmen watching, catching, or beating black slaves.”[ii]
The process of how one became a patroller differed throughout the colonies. Some governments ordered local militias to select patrollers from their rosters of white men in the region within a certain age range. In many areas, patrols were made up of lower-class and wealthy landowning white men alike.[iii] Other areas pulled names from lists of local landowners. Interestingly, in 18th century South Carolina, landowning white women were included in the potential list of names. If they were called to duty, they were given the option to identify a male substitute to patrol in their place.[iv]" https://nleomf.org/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/27094596
BTW, I am a natural born American who paid attention in history classes.
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@HoraceGreenley [quote]There are places in the world that didn't have slaves and still have police.[/quote]
Can you name a country that never had the equivalent of slavery or racial oppression?
The American police system is based on the Slave Patrol model and still has the main function of the Slave Patrol. You would be lucky to find a dozen cops who wouldn't eagerly be members of the old Slave Patrols.
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@HoraceGreenley [quote]You can't make a statement like that, "You would be lucky to find a dozen cops who wouldn't eagerly be members of the old Slave Patrols."
You have no credibility.[/quote]
I can surely make such a statement because it's true. When the thug Slave Patroller murdered Floyd in cold blood before the world, not one of the bastards (regardless of ethnicity or gender or position) in the entire country had the integrity to condemn his (Chauvin's) criminal behavior. So, as a consequence thousands of them have quit because the people hate their guts and are not afraid to tell them face-to-face. You see them covering for every other thug cop who commits similar crimes.
If there is a lake of fire, all of them should be the first group to be tossed into it. They are despicable people because they violate the expressed American creed and the constitution.
I don't lie.[/quote] I thought that everyone who is a regular poster is familar with the biblical story. The golden cube comes into existence after Judgment Day, when the old heaven and old Earth have been destroyed. It is described in Revelation 21:10-27 and Revelation 22:1-5.
To summarize, the golden cube is called New Jerusalem. It is a bejeweled golden cube 1,500 miles in size with length, width, and height the same (3,375,000,000 cubic miles in volume). https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Revelation%2021:16
It is surrounded by a 216 foot tall wall made of jasper, with three pearl gates on each side, one gate for each of the twelve tribes of Israel. The streets are pure gold.
The golden cube is on a waterless planet that doesn't have any night. Evil people who have eternal life are kept on the outside of the wall and can't enter the cube where the water and food are. That is heaven.
