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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Maintaining social control and the protection of private property.
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Maintaining social control = enforcing the rule of law
Protection of private property = upholding laws against theft, trespassing and other offences against your RIGHT to own property
These are bad things? I think not.
A functioning modern society without police is impossible. Police must also be subject to the law, however - and in this case, it looks suspiciously like these police were going outside the law (or, at least, trying to). An independent investigation should be ordered by the government, and then we will know - if the three actually WERE arrested, then their names are on file, and they can be questioned. If the arrests are just a convenient fiction, then it is clearly a cover-up of some sort; either way the circumstances are such that the accusation must be taken seriously.
The idea that the police would never ever mount such an operation is laughable. Certainly the anarchists and anti-global people have tried in the past to incite riots; never would they run to the police for protection. It might just be 3 yahoos who wanted to stir up trouble, but I'd say the chances it was organized by anarchists is minuscule in relation to the chance it was organized by over-zealous police officers.