MIAMI — Making you wait in line at checkpoints to check your ID and peer into your car.

Taking money from you if you drive ~5 miles over the speed limit to get to work on time.

Threatening to lock you inside of a steel cage, or taking more money from you, if you get caught ingesting a relaxing herb on the weekends.

Assuring you that you wouldn’t be able to protect yourself without them.

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Treating you as inferior to them.

Demanding your unthinking respect.

Every time you get paid for the work you do, a fraction of what you earn is taken from you to fund all of the above “services” — whether you like or not.

Most organizations offer you a refund or compensation if you’re unsatisfied with their service, but not this organization.

No, you’re stuck with this service no matter how bad it gets.

Imagine this. You find a long, straggly hair tangled up in your food. Your appetite is ruined, so you call the manager over and point it out.

“That’s unfortunate sir,” he says, looking down at the hair.

“But!” he continues, “if it weren’t for our restaurant, you’d have no other way to feed yourself.  So you’ll have to pay for the food anyway. We’re here to feed you.”

That’s about the same level of absurdity of having to pay for a state-monopolized “protection” service that never actually protects you, that claims you couldn’t protect yourself without it. Except it routinely steals from you, spies on you, beats you, and shoots your dog instead of leaving a hair in your food.

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We would like for this “protection service” to either provide real protection or leave us alone.

The officers in the video that follows do neither.  When it came time to provide real protection, the officers were seen ignoring the emergency calls and sitting down for a cup of coffee or going on dates.

In one case, a citizen had been robbed, and the robber had taken off on foot. The officer appears to ignore the report and continue hanging out with his girlfriend at a mall.

In another case, a 5-month-old baby was suffering and in need of emergency help — the officers appear to ignore the call again and sit down for some drinks and snacks.

Meanwhile, we wonder how many citizens these same officers have extorted and arrested for victimless “crimes” like possessing an herb, or not making a complete stop, etc.

“But,” we can hear them saying, “if it weren’t for our protection service, you’d have no other way to protect yourself.”

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