This is actually fascinating because we’re already seeing the results of this train of thought. A lot of recent movies are things like Karens, stalkers, road rage, movies like the Purge series where crime is made legal…. Our monsters are less sureal and superatural, and more just bad people.
That says so much about the world. Our parents, our grandparents, they were afraid of the unexplained. Vampires and zombies and monsters. Nowadays most of us romanticize monsters, and the ones we’re afraid of are people.
It’s called entrapment and, to the best of my knowledge, it is illegal to do this.
Except it’s not, because to prove entrapment you need to prove that a) police instigated the crime, b) which you would not otherwise have committed.
Leaving bait lying around is passive enough that it probably doesn’t qualify for point A, and makes it nearly impossible to prove point B.
Nasty, sleazy, underhanded, actively detrimental to the communities they’re supposed to be “serving,” but legal.
imagine using tax money to buy food, and instead of just giving the food to hungry people, you fucking use that food to bait hungry people into a crime of desperation.
“In the first place, it is not true that with a change of social conditions the nature of the government and its functions would also change. Organs and functions are inseparable terms.
Take from an organ its function, and either the organ will die, or the function will reinstate itself. Place an army in a country where there is no reason or fear of foreign war, and this army will provoke war, or, if it does not succeed in doing that, it will disband. A police force, where there are no crimes to discover, and delinquents to arrest, will provoke or invent crimes, or will cease to exist.”
-Errico Malatesta, “Anarchy” (1891).
It’s completely fucked up to me that all that isn’t entrapment but SOMEHOW posting DUI stations outside bars IS
DAILYFLICKS HALLOWEEN EVENT → FAVORITE HORROR MOVIE PER MEMBER HALLOWEEN (1978) — Carlos (@henry-cavill)
Black cats and goblins and broomsticks and ghosts, covens of witches with all of their hosts. You may think they scare me, you’re probably right. Black cats and goblins on Halloween night. Trick or treat!
“Imperialism is as much our ‘mortal’ enemy as is capitalism. That is so. No Marxist will forget, however, that capitalism is progressive compared with feudalism, and that imperialism is progressive compared with pre-monopoly capitalism. Hence, it is not every struggle against imperialism that we should support. We will not support a struggle of the reactionary classes against imperialism; we will not support an uprising of the reactionary classes against imperialism and capitalism.”
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