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America's Suicide: Police brutality
Feb 26, 2008



I have been looking carefully at police behavior lately -- through the corners of my eyes of course.

Today I saw two cars pulled over just now in the in pouring rain in Highland. Both cars had their driver's side doors open, both drivers were standing behind their cars getting soaked, and both police officers were leaning inside the cars looking around.

Quite frankly, as I learn more about the functions of the human, especially with respect to neurology and morality, I find it difficult to believe that humans are "basically criminal," as this kind of enforcement would imply. So these two attempts at search and seizure would then not only be rights violations, but immoral acts, as I believe a warrants or "cause" is necessary for searches.

Because of what I have learned about neurology, I have suspicions about the neural "facilities" of these officers. Do they have the ability to understand that what they are doing is wrong, not from a legal or "psychotic" perspective, but from an empathic perspective? It appears extremely likely to me that these police may have defective, or perhaps disconnected, empathic neurons: specifically spindle and mirror cells.

If this is so, then it would also seem likely that the "system" for recruiting and training police is promoting people who are lacking these key human neurons; If this is the case, then the police may be largely defective. To extend this idea further, investigators lacking the mirror neuron should have almost no way to determine if a suspect is lying as people known to be missing this neuron are easily fooled.

In my experience, this is as bad as I have seen things-- our state enforcement officials here seem determined to hurt people, possibly more so than in other states. Why? Are the officials likewise missing key neurons? In the very near future these neurons will be visible to magnetic scanning equipment.

I am not too worried about the police myself in this regard. As a former trucker, I am exceedingly careful about speed limits, lights, turns, and intersections, so I don't expect to get pulled over myself. And if I do, I know how to act -- really friendly !!

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Posted: Tuesday February 26, 2008, 3:24 pm
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