I dream frequently. My dreams rarely make any sense in relation to my real life and also rarely feature people that I actually have thought about in a while. They say that it isn't possible to dream of anyone that you have never seen, but for the most part when I do wake up I do not recall having people in my dreams that I have actually interacted with recently. Last night I had a strange dream that featured a group of 4 friends that were at a beach house and had a run in with the "fuzz" who were harassing us endlessly trying to pin some sort of crime on us. I actually do have some sort of reasoning for why I would dream of this. <center>  [src](https://lexipol.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/584f763/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1200x676+0+63/resize/1000x563!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk1-prod-lexipol.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F10%2F86%2F9d18eba18544e14cc3eff2f45f05%2Fgettyimages-531609538.jpg) <sub> Oddly, this image was one of the first ones that popped up when searching for "harassed by policewomen" and one of the officers in my dream looked almost exactly like this </sub> </center> So I suppose I should first address why it was that I dreamt of being harassed by a police **woman**. This might come across as a bit sexist but personally and in my experience, I feel as though policewomen have a greater chance of being the ones that are going to abuse their power. Why this happens probably comes down to a variety of reasons, but of all the times I have been approached by law enforcement in my real life, when they were women, they were far more "hardcore" about it than the men were. This could come from them feeling as though they have to be more serious and in order to prove their authority. There is a theory that many people who pursue law enforcement do so because they felt that they never had power in their own lives and I think there is something to that theory. In one instance in my life I was traveling to Australia and was intercepted, for reasons I can't imagine, by customs upon entering Brisbane international airport. The woman who was charged with going through my one bag was absolutely brutal. She showed zero respect for my personal belongings and had a passive aggressive method behind every word that she said to me. She was younger than me, and seemed to get a great deal of joy in treating me like a lessor person. All the while that she was questioning me and treating my belongings like they were garbage, she had 2 absolutely massive men behind her that were wearing what appeared to be riot gear standing behind her and I suppose this was to add some credibility to her authority. Later on in this same trip I had a similar situation occur to me while I was on a train to an NRL game and didn't have a ticket for the train. I didn't have a ticket because the gates to the train were wide open and there was ZERO indication at the train station as to how one might acquire a ticket for said train. I wasn't trying to freeload, I simply couldn't figure out how to get a ticket. I presumed that since there were no gates and no vending machines or ticket windows, that one would pay for a ticket on the train. <center>  [src](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/33/Birkdale_railway_station%2C_Brisbane%2C_Queensland%2C_2020%2C_01.jpg) <sub> you just walk straight in here, there nothing stopping you from doing so </sub> </center> Well as it turns out you are meant to acquire a ticket for the train either online or by buying them at a minimart near the train station. How the hell we are meant to know that is anyone's guess, but once again I was approached by a very aggressive woman with 2 gigantic men in tow who treated me like trash the entire time she talked to me. The women law enforcement in my dream were the same way. They proceeded to attempt to violate my rights at every turn and had to be reminded that they can't do that on a regular basis. They opened doors, bags, and cars without having the permission necessary to do so. The thing is that me and my friends who were at this beach house hadn't actually done anything wrong. Despite having not done anything wrong, I still do not like the idea of people just going through all of my stuff in the vain attempt to try to pin something on me. So in the dream, I was problematic in the eyes of the officers who really took a dislike to me very quickly. At one point there was a fireworks machine of sorts that looked like a bazooka and the officers attempted to suggest that this was an illegal weapon. Why that was in there comes from a distant memory I had as a child where I actually did have something that was exactly that. It was a roman candle holder, shaped like an RPG mechanism, that was a really stupid thing to sell because it only encouraged kids to launch fireworks at one another and guess what? That is exactly what we did with it. Back to the dream: These women stuck around for ages, going so far as to look in the garage refrigerators and see beer in there, then question if any of us had been drink driving. I recall responding that "I am an adult and I am allowed to have alcohol in my refrigerator, am I not?" They also found a few old mobile phones in a closet and one of them accused me of having "burner phones" and was therefore a drug dealer. They never got anywhere with this but I also know why these would appear in my dream. I have in my house right now, two old mobile phones that I do not use and I honestly have no idea why I hang onto them. I am not going to ever use them again but this is one of those things, kind of like the clichรฉ about men hanging onto every AC adaptor and cord they have ever acquired because it just seems "wrong" to throw them out. Plus, as soon as you throw it out you are going to need it. I'm not sure why this happens but it simply does. <center>  [src](https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/384a70f2c198392b5123952978364427cce59312/hub/2015/04/10/70d072aa-d013-477a-93b6-4c2ab62f0bcc/dsc0283.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200)</center> You hang onto the blue one in the above picture because we are convinced that CRT monitors are going to make a comeback any day now. So in the dream my 3 friends were useless as far as helping out interacting with the officers and the officers, every time it seemed like they were about to take off and leave us in peace, would find another thing they needed to search even though I continually reminded them that they don't have a warrant and therefore are not allowed to search anything. If there is one thing I remember about law enforcement, it is that they really don't like it when you remind them that they have limitations on your property, not the other way around, so therefore they just started to "drag their feet" even more. Just like in real life, the police officers were passive aggressive the entire time, and stuck around well beyond their welcome until eventually I kicked them out of the house. At that point they let me know that they would be checking back in on me from time to time. Abuse of power on the part of law enforcement is something that seriously bothers me and is a big part of the reason why I chose to stop living in the USA many years ago. You see, and I will detail this with a post later on, I actually WAS law-enforcement as my last job before I exited the United States permanently and while I was not one of the people that did abuse their power, I was surrounded by people that were drunk with power on a daily basis. They would gather around the water cooler and coffee station daily to joke around about what they were able to make people do every single day. They seemed to get a kick out of abusing people and while I was not one of them, I had a crisis of conscious because I was simply affiliated with them. In Thailand and Vietnam, my interaction with police has been very limited but it has the potential to be far worse than it is in America since the police in both countries get to do basically whatever they want. It is by virtue of lack of money available for funding that the populace in both countries aren't simply living under authoritarian rule. Since the police have very little money, you rarely even see them and they don't really bother with enforcement of anything (or so it appears) unless there is some side money to be made on their own part. In a way I think this kind of works because while they are corrupt to the core, there are so few of them that they are almost never a part of your life, and if they are, you can get them to go away for something like $50-$100. So what do the experts have to say about dreaming about law enforcement harassing you? > To dream of the police in relation to drugs, or drug trafficking can indicate that you have an addiction for something in life. Sure, once again this one-size-fits-all approach is the horoscope of the MD world > When the police are attempting to arrest you for a crime which you are not guilty of then this is a positive dream that you will win against the competition. Basically the same thing I just said. This is why I don't believe in psychology. I suppose they have to say something. > Freud stated that cops certainly are a super-ego image, which represents taboos arising out of your childhood. huh? One particularly stupid interpretation that I read said that the presence of police in your home in a dream means that this is a sign of good health and prosperity on the horizon for either you or someone close to you. This one sounds the most like hokum to me <hr> Well anyway, last night's dream was one of the more frustrating dreams that I have had in a while and I woke up a bit angry because of it. I suppose you could say that personally, I think I had this dream perhaps as a reminder about how I quite enjoy living in a country where we are not being constantly monitored, or if we are, they do it in such a remarkably covert way that we don't even realize it is there. I say this often but I still can't believe it is true but I had to move to a Communist country in order to experience real freedom. <center>  [src](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/fZ1oir8b.jpg) <sub> Believe it or not, these guys are actually OK </sub> </center> I have only dealt with police officers ONCE the entire time I have lived here and that was when I intentionally overstayed my visa by over a year. I knew they would come one day and when they did, they were polite and to the point. They took their shoes off before entering my house and at no point in time did they have a passive aggressive way of dealing with me. Perhaps this was because they were aware of the fact that they were about to hit paydirt with a massive bribe, which they eventually did receive. Well done boys and girls in green! I hope that if you have dreams that you are able to remember them as vividly as I do because it is actually quite a lot of fun to try to figure out what is going on in this brain of mine. If you have any dreams you would like to share I'd like to hear about it in the comments!
Imagine if, all of those empty buildings were actually Bishops  As you walk past, they identify your location data And where you spend your money They can use governmental authorities to draw money out of your bank account to make sure you canโt spend money where you go [BISHOP] Imagine if all those stop signs and streetlights are rooks  They can see vehicles, approaching and direct trafficโฆ [rook] Imagine if all of the pedestrians had monitoring apparatus on their smart phones, and monitored everything that you said, as you stopped to have a conversation with them [pawn]  Imagine if all those vehicles are knights [knight] They can skip around the city and not be identified and then make an L for the parking lot and somebody gets out of the car without being spotted as easily  Imagine if police officers sitting in dispatch offices Could summon any one of these And thereโs millions of them around the country using an ultra sophisticated police AI connected to every building using artificial intelligence [Queen]  Police dispatch Anything you say can and will be used against you King  Ever wonder how the Police operating budget is paid? It has to do with rubbing drug dealers that have more than $10,000 in cash at their house Or robbing people who are presumed to be criminals Imagine if all those wires outside of every house Are actually magnetized and can lift any object out of your house into police custody Especially if you sign an agreement for a bank and take money that you canโt pay back Italian mob Imagine, if a mob lord, who is a drug dealer A pimp and running multiple casinos slaughter houses, and even brothels Became a king
 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/01/california-police-video-shooting-15-year-old-girl-savannah-graziano Cops are trying to rescue a girl kidnapped by her father. Father shoots at police from his truck while fleeing with the girl. Girls gets out of truck and kneels on the ground for ten seconds, then follows one cop's orders and begins walking towards the police. Police shoot and kill her. Police hide the video for two years.
Thailand is frequently referred to as the "Land of Smiles" because the people are very smiley all over the country. This seems to be the common greeting and it is a very real thing. I think that this constant smiling at strangers leads to the overall sense of peace and happiness here that doesn't really exist in other places that I have lived. This country is also absolutely filled with knock-off merchandise to the point where if you see some brand name for sale anywhere you need to be suspicious that it is a fake. I won't buy any name brand outside of a store that also carries that brand on their sign such as buying Nike's at the Nike store. If you buy them anywhere else and especially at a market, it is almost guaranteed that it is a fake. Thailand kind of pretends to care about copyright infringement and violation of trademarks. They will have a raid here and there to kind of prove to the world that they are fighting this problem but the reality of the situation is that they completely embrace knock off merchandise here and the police are in on it. All you have to do is go to a very large shopping mall in Bangkok called MBK in order to prove this to yourself. That place has something crazy like 5 floors and hundreds of shops the specialize in fake merchandise. The police are extremely aware that this place exists. It's not like they are hiding or anything. It is a bit strange when the Thai authorities end up busting someone though because it is almost certainly a case of whoever was running the operation is guilty of one major thing: They didn't pay off the police. This is what I suspect in this recent "high profile bust" that took place in Nonthaburi where a family was making counterfeit shampoos and selling them god knows where. <center>  [src](https://thethaiger.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Counterfeit-shampoo.jpg)</center> I don't really know what the police are hoping to accomplish when the allow the publishing of stories like this in the news - the news is not officially state-controlled here but everyone knows that it is - because everyone and I do mean EV-ERY-ONE in this country knows that the cops here **are the corruption**, they are not concerned about stopping it. So this bust that the police are so proud of themselves over, hence the posing for pictures with all of the contraband that they found, is the operation of a 58-year old woman and her nephew where they would refill name-brand shampoo bottles with a cheap concoction that they made themselves and then they would resell the bottles at local markets for $1.50. It's funny to me that the only reason why this "bust" happened was because the companies that manufacture the genuine products got tipped off to the practice and sent their police dogs to go and get the perpetrators. These were not luxury brands they were selling at the markets, it was brands like Head & Shoulders. Now I guess we could say that there is a chance that people making their own shampoo could be a cause of concern in the realm of public safety, but at the same time we all know what this is really about: The corporations don't want competition. The fact that the police force would be used to bust a 60 year old woman that is making around 15 cents per bottle instead of going after actual crime is something that I have to shake my head at and roll my eyes. It was upon learning about this "bust" that I found out that Thailand actually has an "Intellectual Property Court" and what a joke. It is extremely well-known in this country that knock-off versions of just about anything are readily available and the population embraces this. Overpriced luxury brand handbags are available at every single market in the country and they are displayed right in front of your eyes. You would be very hard-pressed to find a single legitimate football kit (jersey) in this country yet they are sold in droves just about anywhere. I guess they draw the line at chemicals and maybe that is a good thing. I know that I don't some bathtub-made shampoo done by someone in a small village to be something I put on my head, but then again, I would never buy toiletries at some shady outdoor market anyway. Just another day in the life of Thailand!
 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/us/baltimore-key-bridge-mayday-call-radio.html I donโt know how long it took the radio call from the ship to make it to their dispatch and for the word to get passed, but out in the field the call to close traffic resulted in traffic being stopped at one side within 20 seconds (!). No chatter about what do you mean and extra questions. Just information given well โ first the request, then the reason โ and immediate action, also conveyed well โ that it was done, and what the circumstances were. And then only 12 seconds later someone asked if there was a work crew on the bridge. Which does seems to be the logical order of what to attend to when. 12 seconds later a transit cop on the other side of the bridge confirmed he was being asked to stop traffic. That was a little slower but still was pretty rapid and maybe merited a confirmation. Which resulted in five seconds later the dispatcher saying yes but immediately expanding to alert that any crews need to be pulled off too, and offering a suggestion of how (contact the foreman). 15 seconds later the other side of the bridge reports they have complied and stopped traffic and that as soon as another unit arrives to keep the traffic stopped, they will drive onto the bridge to look for work crews. This is volunteering to risk their own life, no hesitation. Unfortunately, 29 seconds later the bridge is already down. Had the officer been on their way, which was just about to happen, they would have died too. I often am interested in learning from teamwork and studying how professionals react under pressure. So often this is in the context of a failure, such as a cockpit voice recorder after a crash where the crew failed to act expeditiously or in some other way wasnโt able to solve the problem when perhaps in theory they could have. Itโs so wonderful to instead get this glimpse into highly competent behaviour in the face of a black swan event in the middle of the night, where the team does exactly what they should have in exactly the right way, communicates with maximal efficiency and professionalism, saves some lives, and through luck manages to avoid having to sacrifice their own life unnecessarily even though they were willing. Itโs very moving and instructive and I hope these exemplars will be helpful in training other law enforcement and operations teams.
BALANGAN โ Balangan Police Chief AKBP Reza Muttaqin and his staff together with media crew in Balangan Regency broke the fast together at Warung Makan Wong Solo, Balangan Regency. Wednesday, (27/3/2024). This activity is expected to strengthen relations between the police, media and the people of Balangan Regency. Through this joint fast breaking event, it is hoped that good cooperation will be established between the police and the media in providing useful information for the community. Apart from that, this activity can also be a place for friendship and strengthening ties of brotherhood between the Balangan Police and media crew. The Balangan Police also handed over Eid packages to all media crew. "We would like to thank Balangan Police Chief AKBP Reza Muttaqin and his staff who initiated this activity. "Hopefully this event of breaking the fast together will run smoothly and bring blessings to all those present," said a media crew member, Taufik.  
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 ์๊ฐ: ํ๋ถํ ๋ฌธํ์ ์ฐ๊ณผ ํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌ ๊ณต๋์ฒด๋ก ์ ๋ช ํ ๊ณ ์ํ ๋์ ์์์ ์ต๊ทผ ๋ถ์ํ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ ์ฌ๋ก์กํ์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ ํ ๋ฐฐ์๋ก์์ ์์ ์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ผ ๋๋ค์ ํํ๋ฅผ ๊นจ๋จ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์จ๊ฐ ์ถ์ธก์ด ๋๋ฌดํ๋ค. ์กฐ์ฌ๊ด๋ค์ด ์ด ๋ถ๊ฐ์ฌ์ํ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ์กฐ์ฌํ๋ฉด์ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ ๊น์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ์ ์ฌ๋ก์กํ์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ: ์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ณ ์ํ ๊ณ ์ํจ์ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ์ฌ๋์ด ์ฐ์ฐํ ๋ฐฐ์๋ก์ ํํ ๋ฌผ์ ์ ๊ธด ์์ฒด์ ์์ธํ ๊ด๊ฒฝ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌํ์ ๋ ๊ฐ์๊ธฐ ๊นจ์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ ์์์ด ๋ค๋ถ์ฒ๋ผ ํผ์ง์ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ๊ณผ ๋ถ์ ์ด ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ์ ์ฒด์ ํผ์ก์ต๋๋ค. ๋น๊ตญ์ ์ ์ํ๊ฒ ํด๋น ์ง์ญ์ ํ์ํ๊ณ ์ด ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ธ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋ฌ์ผ ์ ํฉ์ ๋ฐํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ธ์ฌํ ์กฐ์ฌ๋ฅผ ์์ํ์ต๋๋ค. ์ปค๋ฎค๋ํฐ ๋ฐ์: ์ฃผ๋ณ์ ํ์จํจ์ ์ต์ํ ์์ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์๊ฒ ์ด ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ ๋๋ํ ๊ณต๋์ฒด์ ์ถฉ๊ฒฉ์ ์ฃผ์๋ค. ์ด๋ฌํ ๋น๊ทน์ ์ธ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ด ๊ฐ๊น์ด ๋ค๊ฐ์จ ๊ฒ์ ๋ถ์ํ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํ๋ ์ด์๋ค์ด ๊ณ ๊ตฐ๋ถํฌํ๋ฉด์ ์ฐ๋ ค์ ์ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ ๊ณต๊ธฐ์ ์ค๋ฉฐ๋ค์์ต๋๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง, ๋์ ๋๋ ๋ถ์๊ฐ ์์์๋ ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ด ํจ๊ป ๋ชจ์ฌ ๋ถํ์ค์ฑ์ ์ง๋ฉดํด ์๋ก๋ฅผ ์ง์งํ๋ฉด์ ์ฐ๋๊ฐ์ด ๋ํ๋ฌ์ต๋๋ค. ์กฐ์ฌ ๋ฐ ์ถ์ธก: ๋ฒ์ํ ์ ๋ฌธ๊ฐ๋ค์ด ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ฅผ ๊ผผ๊ผผํ๊ฒ ์ ์ ์ด ๋ค์ ธ ๋จํธ์ ์ธ ์ ๋ณด๋ฅผ ์ข ํฉํ๋ ๋์ ์์์ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ์๋ ์ถ์ธก์ด ๋๋ฌดํ๋ค. ์ฃผ๋ฏผ๋ค์ด ๊ณ ์ธ์ ์ ์๊ณผ ๊ทธ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์์ค๋ฌ์ด ์ฃฝ์์ ์ด๋ํ ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๋ํด ์๊ณ ํ๋ ๋์ ์ ๋ณด๋ค ๋์ฑ ๋๋ผ์ด ์๋ฌธ์ด ๋๊ณ ์์ต๋๋ค. ๋ค๋ง ์ด๋ฐ ์ถ์ธก์ด ๋๋ฌดํ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ ๋น๊ตญ์ ์์ฌ ๊ณผ์ ์ด ์ฒด๊ณ์ ์ผ๋ก ์งํ๋๋๋ก ํ๋ ๊ฒ์ด ์ค์ํ๋ค๊ณ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ฉฐ ์ฃผ์๋ฅผ ๋น๋ถํ๋ค. ์์ ๋ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ์ ๋ํ ๊ณ ์ฐฐ: ์์ ํ๋ณตํ์์ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ๋ ์์ ์ ์ถ์ ์ทจ์ฝ์ฑ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์ง์ญ์ฌํ์์ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ์ฌ์ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ฒ์ ์ค์์ฑ์ ๊ทน๋ช ํ๊ฒ ์ผ๊นจ์์ค๋๋ค. ๊ทธ๋ฌํ ์ผ์ด ์ผ์ด๋๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๋ ๋๋ฌผ์ง๋ง, ์ฃผ๋ณ ํ๊ฒฝ์ ์ฌํ๊ฐํ๊ณ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์์ ๊ณผ ์ฃผ๋ณ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์์ ๊ณผ ์๋ ์ ๋ณด์ฅํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ ๊ทน์ ์ธ ์กฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ทจํ๋๋ก ์ ๋ํฉ๋๋ค. ๋ถํ์คํ ์๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์ง๋จ์ ํ๋ณต๋ ฅ๊ณผ ์ฐ๋๊ฐ์ ํฌ๋ง์ ๋ฑ๋ถ ์ญํ ์ ํ๋ฉฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ด๋์ด ๋ ์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์๋ดํฉ๋๋ค. ๊ฒฐ๋ก : ์์์ด ์ด ๋ถ์ํ ๋ฐ๊ฒฌ์ ์ฌํ์ ์จ๋ฆํ๋ ๊ฐ์ด๋ฐ, ์ง์ญ ์ฌํ๋ ๊ณ ์ธ์ ์ํ ์ ์๋ฅผ ๊ตฌํ๊ณ ์ด ๋น๊ทน์ผ๋ก ์ํฅ์ ๋ฐ์ ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ํ ์ข ๊ฒฐ์ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์ํด ๋จ๊ฒฐํ์ต๋๋ค. ์๊ธธ์ด ํ๋ํ ์ง๋ผ๋ ์์ ์ ์ ์ ํ์ ๋ฐ๊ฒ ๋น๋๋ฉฐ ์น์ ์ ์ฌ์์ ๊ธธ์ ๋ฐํ์ค๋๋ค.
Recently, my Naborhoodโs been converted to a cartel hit spot Iโve been noticing gang Graffiti And recently found out one of my neighbors just died Right next to water distribution hub Right next to a natural flowing river Right along where there was extremely violent and dangerous activity and gang graffiti that couldโve implied not to pass through that road I spoke to a woman briefly living in that home. She had a daughter and her mother had recently passed away. The time right now is 11:20 AM Itโs Saturday, February 24 Iโve just called the police department a moment ago to report this as a crime and they told me itโs not an emergency and hung up on me right away Months prior to this may be about six months I called the FBI to report that our neighborhood was getting overrun by drug cartel agents The auto dealerships in the bars down on Main Street City Hall and the local library Including tunnels underneath some of the Housing I called the FBI and let them know there is extremely dangerous activity, including gunshots and bombs going off and they showed me itโs under control recently I found out more than three people in our neighborhood have diedโฆ
Rednecks and perhaps Americans in general are pretty renowned for not being the best when it comes to knowledge of geography but I think maybe we can get a pass on this one because this is a country that I have never even heard of before today. In a news feed that I receive the headline read "Charlotte protesters attack officers, set tractor-trailer on fire in riot at Eritrean 'cultural event'". I thought for a minute that maybe Eritrea was a country in North Carolina or something like that because some of our county names can be a bit perplexing and rather arbitrary sounding. I read on because I never really understand the motivations behind riots since the state is always going to win in these situations. Apparently two rival groups of Eritrea collided with one another in Charlotte and when the police because the two groups were blocking traffic, the groups started to attack the police. <center>  [src](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1200/675/hague-riot-2.png?ve=1&tl=1)</center> At one point in time the rioters decided it would be a good idea to set a tractor trailer truck on fire as well and this is where the mob mentality really gets to me. The owner of that truck likely had nothing to do with what was going on and that's just mean, regardless of how justified your anger is in whatever riot you are participating in. I felt the same way back when people in California protested Trump's Presidential win by busting up just any business without any real regard to what the business was or if they had anything to do with anything. Attacking Starbucks because Trump won was particularly stupid because if there ever was a business that appeals primarily to liberals, it would be Starbucks. Us conservative rednecks would never pay $6 for a cup of coffee. <center>  [src](https://cdn.britannica.com/36/183636-050-C52DFF19/World-Data-Locator-Map-Eritrea.jpg)</center> So instead of remaining ignorant I decided to do a bit of investigation and if you are like me and had no idea that this was even a country, there it is on the map above. With a population of a mere 6 million people, the USA has several cities with a higher amount of folks in it than this entire country. I had no idea that this place existed so it should come as no surprise that I also had no idea that they have had governmental unrest and violence there for quite some time. I wish I could say that this surprises me but given what little I know about this part of the world, it doesn't. Back to the event in Charlotte: Apparently it was an event with one group in support of the Eritrean government and another group got ahold of the fact that this event was happening and turned up to protest it. It was before lunch before things started getting ugly. Police were called in around 11:30 AM and things were cool until the people seemed to be intentionally blocking traffic and at that point the police issued an order to disperse. Things got violent and the mob started attacking the police. <center>  [src](https://www.wsoctv.com/resizer/FsLN29ZeEvdyhU2V1Q0S1OPS-DQ=/arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-cmg/public/3ZI37XJJO5ASVO5A5WHDKYQOAM.jpg)</center> Two things to take away from this picture taken earlier in the day. 1, there really isn't that much traffic to contend with here but then again, the road may have been shut down at this point and 2, there was plenty of space on the sides so the people that were out in the street in my mind were intentionally agitating the police. Well if that was their objective it worked because the "riot squad" was called in at 6:30 PM. <center>  [src](https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/02/1200/675/charlotte-riot-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)</center> Call me a coward if you want to, but when these guys turn up to an event you are attending it is probably in your best interests to get the hell outta there and head home. I'm not saying that I support everything police do, I certainly do not. This does not change the fact that by the time the armored human tanks with shields turn up, whatever it is that you are doing is going to get shut down, especially in a rather conservative state like North Carolina. I am fortunate enough to live NOT in Charlotte, but instead in a part of the state far to the East where myself and everyone else in the community has a sort of level of respect for one another. I have protested, I did it during Covid times, but because there is a rather high level of adult-like behavior in our community, things never escalated to the point where anything even close to this happened. Whatever it is that you are attempting to achieve with the protest, setting random vehicles on fire and assaulting officers probably isn't going to further your cause. The thing here is, the people at the protest didn't even have any issue with anything America oriented, they were arguing over the politics of a distant country that I have never heard of until today. While looking up what the heck Eritrea is I also found out that several instances similar to this one, involving the same rival groups, have been happening in various places in Europe as well. This is something I cannot understand. Why destroy things here over a conflict that is happening thousands of miles away?
 The recording delivered Tuesday shows a man being stood up to by about six cops in the passage of a structure. Los Angeles: Police in Los Angeles have delivered body-cam film of an episode in which officials shot and killed a man holding a plastic fork. One of the police engaged with the February 3 shooting in a stockroom in midtown Los Angeles is being scrutinized to decide whether the official conformed to rules on show of violence, specialists said Tuesday. The one who was shot has been recognized as Jason Lee Maccani, age 36. The recording delivered Tuesday shows a man being defied by about six cops in the passageway of a structure. They advise the man to move toward them with his arms raised, and at first he appears to consent. However, he neglects to quit moving and continues to stroll with his hands gripped in clench hands, holding an item that the officials said they believed was a screwdriver. Officials attempted to stifle him however fizzled, police said in an explanation. In the video, the man is seen moving toward the police when shots are heard. "The suspect snatched one of the officials and the Beanbag Shotgun she was holding, bringing about an Official Included Shooting," it said. Police went to the structure after somebody called a crisis number to report an "attack with a destructive weapon" in a distribution center. The guest said this individual was affected by medications or liquor and undermining businesses with a stick. Maccani passed on in a close by clinic. None of the stockroom workers or police were harmed. Pay attention to the most recent melodies,
 It took about eight years; but, I'm finally changing my tune in qualified immunity (at least while we still have to deal with governments.) On its face, especially in the age of heightened sensitivity to what people paint as police brutality, it doesn't make sense to shield police officers from lawsuits. But, think about it for a moment. Suppose you're shopping at Wal-Mart one day and you suddenly slip on a wet floor and hurt your back. There was no sign saying that the floor was wet. There's footage of other people nearly slipping before you did. So, an employee dropped the ball. Do you sue the employee as an individual, or Wal-Mart? What are you going to get from a lawsuit out of an employee who's already making beans? I will address one exception wherein I do see a problem with qualified immunity later; but, for now, I'm gonna focus on the solid logic. Qualified immunity isn't useful in the most egregious actions by police. If an officer shoots somebody dead while he's cuffed and prone, we don't care about suing the cop. The cop should be in prison. If the cop is in prison, the cop has no income to pay the lawsuit. No, the cop goes to prison, and the police department gets sued. The reality is that anybody can go down to a courthouse and *at least file* a lawsuit against almost anybody. A lot of them are frivolous. Especially right now, I can see a disaster in overturning qualified immunity. We're not talking about suing Derek Chauvin. We're talking about the likelihood that activists will get pulled over for reckless driving and just start filing lawsuits against the officers who pulled them over. Even if the officers are never found responsible, at least until the unions figure something out, the individual officers would have to spend a year's salary on legal fees. The plaintiffs get the lawyers who offer to not get paid unless they win, not the defendants. Being a cop is already a dangerous job that pays shit and gets you hated by half the country. Who's gonna do it if they might get sued for issuing a traffic violation? By the way, none of you "abolish the police" people actually want that. I want that, because I want government gone. You guys wanna throw rich people in prison, take my guns away, and you wanted Rittenhouse hanged. Who's gonna do all that? Finally, yes, there's nuance. Say a cop is basically in the OJ situation -- where, we all think he committed a murder although he was found guilty in criminal court; but, he was found responsible under the lower burden of proof in civil courts? Well, under qualified immunity, there isn't that backup. Still, you can sue the police department and show that the individual officer was responsible more likely than not. Again, if you're suing for millions of dollars, you might as well sue the person or entity who might be able to pay it.
For me personally, I rarely use ganja even though it is 100% legal here in Thailand. The buzz just isn't my style although it does for other people. For me, and I do not understand that various strains, smoking weed makes me anxious and anti-social and that is the opposite of how I want to feel in public. However, I am very happy that it is legal here because I think it is ridiculous that booze of all kinds is legal, definitely causes health issues and is a big cause of concern for road deaths that are already really bad in this country. I know quite a few people that regularly smoke weed and all of them, when high, are the most docile people around. People that are really drunk are the opposite: They cause problems and start fights that wouldn't happen if they were not hammered drunk. There has been some opposition to the legalization of weed in this country and I would be willing to bet that this is driven by the producers of alcohol because it is cutting into their profits. I think most of the world kind of operates this way about most things and this is why weed is illegal in a lot of places. We can't have Johnny Walker lose a couple million because weed is cheaper, right? <center>  [src](https://cms-image-bucket-production-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/images/1/6/9/7/42707961-1-eng-GB/GettyImages-1402139132.jpg)</center> I have no idea who that is in the picture, but he is clearly a fan of marijuana. Recently, there was a singular incident where a Chinese man was causing problems in public, shouting at strangers, damaging property, and basically just acting belligerent. For some reason, the police and the media decided to make the headlines about this man, and his eventually deportation on ganja. This was based solely on an interview with a security guard at his condo that said that the Chinese guy in question had recently started smoking weed. I'm no weed expert but I have never met a regular weed smoker who became violent after smoking it. The people that I know that get "too stoned" end up falling asleep or going home, not running around naked and screaming at strangers. <center>  [src](https://thethaiger.com/news/national/ganja-overuse-chinese-man-deported-for-causing-chaos-in-chiang-mai)</center> That's the headline from one of the reports about this guy and I am upset that there seems to be a movement to revert to marijuana being illegal again. I think that this is done intentionally and there are a lot of factors at play here. It is no secret that the smuggling of illegal marijuana into the country was very profitable and a lot of the times it was the same people that are charged with preventing it entering the country that were actually importing it illegally themselves. The police are extremely corrupt in Thailand so the legalization of weed cut off a major source of revenue for them. According to regular weed smoking friends of mine, it was not at all difficult to procure marijuana before it was legal. Some actually complain that the price of the drug has actually gone UP since it was legalized. The Chinese man incident that they are making a big deal about in the news right now seems like a setup to me. Keeping in mind that there isn't really a free press here in Thailand, I believe this story is being used as some sort of political move to reverse the legalization of weed. Some of the more independent media highlighted something that is very important for people to understand before they jump to conclusions about this singular incident of deportation because of weed use: When they took the Chinese guy in to be questioned they forced him to take a drug test. The test came back negative for marijuana. From what I understand, weed remains in your system for a very long time so it is safe to say that not only had the guy not had any marijuana that particular day, but he likely hadn't had any for a very long time, if he had at all. Yet they still run the story to focus on the dangers of excessive drug use. I'm gonna quote Chris Rock when he said "whatever happened to crazy? You can't be crazy no more?" To me, this situation is one that we actually see quite a lot in Thailand, people with mental illness come over to Thailand because to some extent, being nuts is tolerated in this country a lot more than it would be elsewhere. <center>  [src](https://thethaiger.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2012-2024-02-05T134038.638.jpg)</center> I think that this story is a mess of lies intended to falsely attribute this sort of behavior with weed and that is just foolish. The only people that are going to believe it are people that have never used marijuana. Erratic and violent behavior is something that comes along with booze or meth (called Ya-Ba in Thailand) and if there are drugs involved in this situation at all, it isn't weed. I'm just hopeful that whoever is behind this effort to vilify weed in an effort to make it illegal again fails. This legalization is one of the few things that I have actually been proud of the government doing here in Thailand.
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๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์์์ ์ฐ๋ฝ์ด ์๋ค. ์ฒ์์ ๋ณด์ด์คํผ์ฑ์ธ์ค์์์ง๋ง ๋ด ์ฐจ๊ฐ ์ง๋์ฃผ ํ ์์ผ ๋น์ค๋ ๋ ์ฃผ์ฐจ๋์ด ์๋ ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด์ ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฏธ๋ฌ๋ฅผ ์น๊ณ ๊ฐ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๋ด์ฐจ์๋ ์๋ฌด๋ฐ ํ์ ์ด ์์๊ณ ์จ์จํฐ๋น ์์์ ์ง๋๊ฐ๋ ์ฐจ๋ค์ค ๋ด๊ฐ ์ ์ผ ์ ๋ ฅํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค. ํ์ง๋ง ์ง์ ์ ์ธ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๋ ์๋ค๊ณ ์ ํฉ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ํ๋ค. ๊ฐ์ด์ด ๋๊ทผ๋๊ทผ ์ง์ง ๋ด๊ฐ ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด๋ฅผ ์น๊ฑด์ง ์์น๊ฑด์ง ์๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ์๋ ๋ง์์ด ๋งค์ฐ ๋ถํธํ๋ค. ๋๋ก์ธํด ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด ์ฃผ์ธ์ด ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ณธ๊ฒ์ผ๊น๋ด ๋ค์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ์์์ ์ ํ๊ฐ ์๋ค. ํ๋ฉด์ ์์ธํ๋ณด๋ฉด ๋ด์ฐจ๊ฐ ์ง๋๊ฐ๊ณ ๋์ ๋ฏธ์ธํ๊ฒ ์คํ ๋ฐ์ด ์ฌ์ด๋๋ฏธ๋ฌ ์์น๊ฐ ๋ฐ๋์๋ค๋๊ฑธ ์๊ฒ๋์๋ค. ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋ถ์ ๋ด๊ฐ ๊ฐ๋ฉด์ ์ฝ๊ฐ ํธ๋ค์ ๊บพ์ด ์ค๋ฅธ์ชฝ ๋ท์ฐฝ๋ฌธ์ ์ด์ง ๋ถ๋ซ์น๊ฒ์ด ์๋๊น ์กฐ์ฌ์ค๋ ์์ธกํ์๋ค. ๋ณดํํ์ฌ์ ์ฌ๊ณ ์ ์๋ฅผ ํ๋ค. ๋ง์์ด ๋๋ฌด ํธํด์ก๋ค ์ด์ฐ๋๊ฑด ๋ด ์ค์๊ณ ์ฌ๋์ ๋ค์น์ง ์์์ง๋ง ๋ฐฐ๋ฌํ์๋๋ถ์ด ์ํด๋ฅผ ๋ณธ๊ฒ์ด๋ ๋ด๊ฐ ํด๊ฒฐํด์ผ์ง ์ฐธ ๋ณ์ผ์ด ๋ค์๋ ์ธ์์ด์ง๋ง ์ข์ ๊ฒฝ์ฐฐ๋์ ๋ง๋ ์ํด๊ฒฐ๋์ด ๊ธฐ์๋ค ์ญ์ ๋๋ ์ด์ด์ข์ ๋ฐฑ๋ฒ์ธ์น๋ฉฐ ์ด๊ณณ์ ๊ธ์ ๋จ๊ธด๋ค ์ด๋ฒ์ผ์ ๋์๊ฒ ์ด๋ค ๊นจ๋ฌ์์ ์ฃผ๋ ค๊ณ ๋ํ๋๊ฑธ๊น ์๊ฐํ๋ ํ๋ฃจ๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฌํฉ๋๋ค.
 This officer detained a homeless woman one nightโฆ sleeping in her car, but of course, a trespasser anywhere she was, soโฆ off to jail? He felt a heart tug. He himself grew up with a depressed single mom, and knew that night that this woman needed help, not punishment. So he dropped her off at a local womenโs shelter, and never saw her again, until this moment. You can see from the photograph what an awful state she was in. On this night, the PR folks of the police department faked him out. He was asked about the woman, and recalls that night and dropping her at the shelter, and meanwhile she was creeping silently into the room behind him. Her name is Sophie, and she is now a happy, motivated career woman with resources to meet her lifeโs demands. She reckons that without his God-moment, she would be in some jail somewhere even now. His urge to do good seems to have catalysed her urge to strive and do betterโฆ and the shelter took care of her basic needs so she could focus on self improvement. He had recently become a father, and had a few extra needs of his own, and she understood that she could helpโฆ and could thus return his favor from so long agoโฆ and she knew policemen do not make a lot of money, so she brought him a few thousand dollars she had raised among friends and colleagues who understood what he had done for her. She clearly has it all together, and then some. Thanks to his willingness to follow his heart and do what he believed was the right thing, her whole life has been unwrapped like a Christmas giftโฆ and she is giving back. Life is loaded with love, and with winners, who succeed without government programsโฆ it helps us to remember that people can DO this. People can handle it. No taxpayer funding or politicians required.
China's Global Police State - Original Document โ@abovetopsecretxxl https://berndpulch.org/2023/12/17/chinas-global-police-state-original-document-%e2%9c%8cabovetopsecretxxl/ 
 Ask people to identify the essential, rock-bottom functions for which a government is needed, and most of them will end-up with the military, police, courts, and prisons. Look at the god-awful job that almost every government does with these responsibilities. Look at the god-awful job that the American governments do with these responsibilities. Governments do a genuinely horrifying job with what are ostensibly their most basic responsibilities. And yet people are constantly looking to the government to get involved in other areas, often areas of great delicacy. And when things in those areas subsequently get worse, those people think that the solution is still more government involvement. That's just insane, actively insane.