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[Northern Pilgrim]

I'm afraid we won't be able to have Andy Griffith style lawmen until we have Mayberry style populations.

Getting to the root of the matter right here...
Sadly the church in general is far too ineffective for turning the ship around. Repentance on a national scale is unlikely but with God all things are possible.

 

[ed plrbs unm]

...if you have a valid drivers license, a decent looking car that is insured, have no warrants out for your arrest, aren't out in public running your mouth and looking for trouble, and pay your taxes, that the police are your friends not your enemies.

I used to think so too, until the "pandemic"

 

[Northern Pilgrim]

In my vast experience on American soil for which the better part of two decades I was an outlaw of sorts (non-violent of course) I've never personally seen the police misbehave, quite the contrary, I've only ever seen the police doing their job in a professional manner. Much less have I experienced any type of "police state." In fact, there have been several times in my life when I wished there were lots of head bashing authoritarian types of cops around to put some thugs in their place.

My hypothesis, which bears fruit from 50+ years of anecdotal experience on American soil, is that if you have a valid drivers license, a decent looking car that is insured, have no warrants out for your arrest, aren't out in public running your mouth and looking for trouble, and pay your taxes, that the police are your friends not your enemies. And you can never have too many friends. We need more police in America that are tougher on perps.

While your experience is great, for you, it is merely one man's point of view. Maybe you should make a datasheet about how to prosper and thread the needle as you have alluded to having done in present day America. If others can apply your system that will validate it and prove you are neither an exception or anomaly.
As to police, more force will allow more abuse. Obviously most of them are "just doing their job" but that is no excuse... Just take a look at how many hours are necessary to become a journeyman in a blue collar trade vs becoming a police officer.

 

[Australia Sucks]

be working well for Singapore which has one of the lowest crime rates on the planet.

Singapore is an authoritarian nightmare. You cannot even buy chewing gum there and they passed a law in recent years that next time there is a pandemic (i.e. a re-run of the COVID scam) anybody who refuses to get vaccinated can go to jail. Sure they have a safe society but at what cost.

 

[Australia Sucks]

Curve Model Faces 'Awkward' Comment About Her Body During Flight. Why She Wasn't 'Shocked' by It (Exclusive)

After posting a TikTok about her encounter with an older woman who commented on her figure, Kate Kope opens up to PEOPLE about her experience as a size 8/10 model

www.yahoo.com

Perhaps another sign that the wokeness trend is seeing at least some pushback from companies in the modelling industry. This woman is rightly classified as a "curve" model (in the way that a normal man would think of the term "curvy" woman) as opposed to the size 16 landwhales who were called curve models 5 years ago.

 

[Cooper]

How can anyone stand that fake laugh?

Man, Pearl looks haggard and old, at 28! I followed her a bit several years ago when she was fresh-eyed and earnest. She's already got several hundred yards covered towards the thousand yard stare, I guess dating ghetto brothers gets you there fast.

Her show is absolutely awful, unwatchable. And Manchelle Obama,, wow, what a piece of work, and they wanted to run THAT for president???

 

[Australia Sucks]