From: BASS@BASS.COM   
      
   'But the bourgeois intellectual needs to find reasons for his opinions:   
   rationalization is, after all, his métier. And it isn't difficult for him to   
   think up such reasons with regard to the police. Their function is, after   
   all, to defend the social order: and since the social order is widely held   
   to be responsible for the poverty of the poor, it follows that the police   
   are in part responsible for that poverty. They are a part, not of the   
   criminal justice system, but of the social injustice system.   
      
   The intellectual never acknowledges how much of his liberty he owes to the   
   existence of the police-a humiliating thought, to which he prefers the idea   
   that the comparative peace and tranquility in which he lives, and that make   
   his work possible, emerge spontaneously from the goodwill of his fellow men,   
   requiring no external coercion to maintain them. Since-in the opinion of the   
   intellectual-the poor hate the police, and moreover as victims can think no   
   wrong, it follows that weak policing would be of benefit to the poor.'   
      
      
      
   http://www.manhattan-institute.org/cfml/printable.cfm?id=87   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)