@kiplet
Interesting, except they have the capacity to influence the political system without it in the US. They aren't slaves and they have the right to vote.
@Demosthenes "A police department that fears its inevitable political demise might do everything in its power to forestall that demise, but a police department that believed it would simply never face any consequences for its actions would probably act largely as the Portsmouth Police Department has."
@Demosthenes "But in the final analysis, a riot is the language of the unheard."