[gowld]

This is why people say that the police are an agent of the wealthy to oppress the common people. The wealthy "file a report", and the police "take the report seriously", trampling the rights and stealing precious time of people's lives (and sometimes much worse), but the common people can not do the same to their oppressors.

[pengaru]

Considering the amount of SWATing we've seen in the news, the police are an agent of anyone capable of dialing 911, not just the wealthy.

Actually, one could argue the police are more likely to respond with greater exuberance when responding to a reported hostage situation in a mansion vs. trap house.

[woah]

Except the man arrested in this case was opposed to social housing for low income residents. What the police did was obviously wrong, but it doesn't really fit your narrative.

[crtasm]

I'm not sure it's resaonable to sum up someone from a "Campaign to stop Leathermarket CBS building on the popular ballcourt, removing children's outdoor sports space and green spaces" as "opposed to social housing".

[woah]

He was opposed to them building social housing

[Scoundreller]

Everyone involved was getting paid their salary/wage throughout this, except the victim.

[frzj]

This is factually wrong. They are doing it based on the principles of equality and freedom. This is exactly what those terms mean. Your freedom is only limited if its execution limits the freedom of others. In this case he was free to browser the documents, but he was also impeding on the freedom of that corporation. Same with equality, it seems immoral when the rich always win. But morality is just a WAY OF DEALING with the contradictions of that are inherent to our economic system. People need to understand that freedom and equality can only be enforced by the state and people actually WANT the state to have the monopoly on the use of force. Separation of power and being democratic can be deduced from that too.

[elzbardico]

Several revolutions along the history of mankind show that freedom will frequently be enforced only by the revolutionary acts of the people. The government is only an agent of the dominant class.

[frzj]

I haven't studied revolutions much but I know they are the ultimate form of authoritarianism. The last one actually enforced freedom. There is no opressor class in capitalism, both want the state and most even confirm it every 4 years. In a democracy the government is exchangeable but the economic conditions remain. That's why Democrats will always increase the mil budget and the Reps will always leave some social welfare.

Please continue the discussion if you disagree.