I don't think the government should fear its people any more than the people should fear their government. Government and civilians should maintain an equal balance of respect and trust for each other.
This grinds my gears so bad. You see those guys from the government? They have families and they are merely doing their work. Those other people, they aren't fighting injustice, they are fighting the people who are just doing their work, they throw rocks at people who might have it just as hard.
If you want to fight injustice don't fight the ones that are not even responsible for any of those problems in the first place.
Yes they have families who are stuffed with money, they chose to become politicians. If they were doing "their work" then there wouldn't be all the deficiencies in society that exist. Trust me, they don't have it just as hard as average citizens when their pockets are lined with money, from large corporations and industries.
The guests comment didn't refer to them as police and I was merely responding. Police brutality wouldn't occur if they didn't have the backing of powerful politicans who want to quell any uprisings.
It would be ignorant to disregard the bravey of some people in the police service. Any entity in society has its moral compass of good and bad, including police.
And I'm sure, if the guest was talking about the policemen, he/she was thinking about their bravery in other situations and felt remorse towards them in this situation.
For centuries police have defected and joined the people. In the French Revolution the national guard joined the people and trained them, in the Russian revolution the police disregarded their superiors and joined the people. The issue that needs to be addressed now is the ideological gap between the police and the people. If the police followed their ethical beliefs in these situations such as the image above then they would not stand there and hurt the very people they are meant to protect. Obviously there is the argument that they are just doing their job, but when does their job become the blatant brutality and arbitrary arrest of innocents. The situation now in Ferguson, is the exact example of the police abusing their power.
There's a passage in the Bible that says (I'm paraphrasing here) "...it is the righteous who fears God," If you translate it from Hebrew to English, it reads (I'm paraphrasing here) "What God fears is the righteous,"
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That sounds to me like what would be best.
If you want to fight injustice don't fight the ones that are not even responsible for any of those problems in the first place.