Shit man. I have a lot of sympathy for you. I have paid a few thousand dollars in fines (all traffic violations) and surcharges and had my license suspended for almost a year just because these fucking pricks keep thinking they have some sort of right to pull me over for totally bogus reasons and try their damned hardest to find my nug. (yeah, you fuckers pick up that piece of napkin under my gas petal while I sit in the fucking winter cold in a t-shirt. It sure looks like a joint, right? oh shit, its only a bit of napkin.) I cannot begin to list all the bad karma these fucking pigs generate.

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I'll warn ahead of time, this is going to be a serious rant.

As a young citizen of New Jersey living no farther then 15 minutes away from mahwah, I have got a thing or two to say about the police in my area. Real Estate in this area is expensive as hell since NYC is not a long drive away. The area consists of infinite sprawling suburbs filled with middle class families living off of jobs in the city (where the money is). These are hardworking people who have a lot to loose and a little to gain from the forms of crime that the municipal police usually deal with. This makes Police work in the area rather dull, compared to cities like Hackensack and Paterson (or Camden...). It would make sense then for Police resources to be allocated to areas with higher levels of violent crime, but instead, these quiet suburban communities feed their pigs on the absurdly high property taxes levied on the absurdly expensive properties. Since the Police are given such a high budget they need to show that it is going to use. My town was one of the first in the area to replace their crown vics with dodge chargers, as well as acquiring several hybrid SUVs. They also need to catch enough "criminals" to show that they are needed.

Throw an over-paid pig in a new car with a new laptop which he can use to look up anyone's criminal record in seconds and they feel like they are ready to push crime to extinction. Every minor traffic offense, every 0.7 gram marijuana deal, every underage party, and every case of loitering must be eliminated. Since the police have eliminated all entertainment (that comes at a cost my generation can afford) from an entire county, we sit around and do nothing but smoke cigarettes. Apparently this looks too much like drug dealing to ignore so the police will use any shred of probable cause they can find to invade your life and look for the weed. When they don't find it, there is always something they can write you a ticket for.

its fucking bullshit

do you really think that huge corporations deserve the right to cash in on the works of authors who have been dead for decades?

Too bad they don't focus on the poor Chinese wage slaves making their shit for pennies.

It is selfish to keep information to yourself which can benifit all of mankind (or a substantial portion).

When you die, your writings and works are the only thing left of you. They are the only way for someone to try to dig deeper into your mind and build up an understanding of your true character. A lot of crazy shit happens in a lifetime, someone may really appreciate you leaving a book of your reflections behind.

Liberty and justice for all are indeed socialist ideas. Liberty and Justice for those who can afford it sounds more capitalist to me.

Now that my mind is running about this, I think I would go as far as to say that identifying ourselves as human first is even selfish. We share this planet with so many different forms of intelligent life. Animals and plants which have been here much longer then ourselves - each living being with it's on personality, emotions, desires, and place in our ecosystem. It is far past the time for us as a species to realize this fact, and change our ways. We must treat all animals the way we would like to be treated as well.

We human beings can learn so much from nature. We are the only ones who deal with such silly concepts as money, property (even of fucking ideas!), religion, bigotry. We are the only ones permanently developing our environment in ways that have such profound effects on our ecosphere. We are the only ones who bomb and shoot each other to an oblivion over resources which can easily be shared.

In the end, we are all in the same boat, we can either paddle together, or spin in circles. So far we're all getting pretty dizzy from the circles we're making...

Human language is just as imperfect as the wretched beings who designed it. I try make a point by being direct as possible. I'm not really all about political correctness and that shit. Does it really matter if I happen to call a woman my brother. When you call someone your brother, you're calling them family. Had I used the word 'sibling' instead of 'brother', I feel my post would seem much less personal, which was what I was aiming for.

In the spirit of brotherhood, I am not trying to flame or argue - just explaining my views. This is the internet after all. We come from all over the globe and every area tends to have a unique style thinking and communication.

In English, we tend to use male nouns a lot, but many times these nouns aren't used to describe males specifically. English doesn't provide an elegant combination of him/her (his/hers ect....) brotherhood, sisterhood, and yada yada yada. In the end, you need to choose to aggravate either the grammar nazis or the feminism nazis, right? :)

amen brother