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I really enjoyed the premiere of El ultimo sueno del frida y diego last year. Does the san diego opera have plans to make more original pieces and am I going to get a second opportunity to see el ultimo sueno here at the civic center again? I would love to share the experience with some people who couldn't join me last November!

Just finished the first 25pages. As I suspected Rosa Brooks is a major bootlicker and she openly admits to joining the reserve force due to wanting a more powerful position than tenured professor that it gave her and the people who inspired her to join. She also openly admits in the opening to her novel that she edits her stories and alters them in ways to protect the privacy of the people she is writing about...why is she defending bad police practices? So far the book has reinforced my belief that ACAB and the only good kind of cop is a dead cop. No one likes a pig sty (police departments and their unions) but most of us love a nice crispy piece of bacon (dead cops). Anyway, I'll finish the book...but I still feel ACAB and I'll take every legal opportunity available to me to make their lives and careers unpleasant.

How do you feel about the statement ACAB (all cops are bastards)?

I'll give it a read. Just snagged it from libby on my kindle. But im going into it knowing the author, Rosa Brooks, is a major fan of the military industrial complex being married to a former officer and working as a professor at west point. But I do love the Bob Dylan song tangled up in blue!

Aren't there other jobs (like yours) that help people and society far more than any individual police officer. If someone wanted to help people on an individual level they could become a teacher or automechanic. On a larger scale they could become a nurse, doctor, or social worker, researcher, scientist, or entertainer. All of these jobs arguably help people but none of them come with the inherent societal boss-like power and weapon carrying that LEOs enjoy. It seems to me like it takes a certain psychological desire that is more than just earnestly wanting to help people to have a desire to become a cop.

The next major issue is about culpability and police unions... for me to believe the statement all cops are bastards is not true then I would need to see more evidence that good cops are stopping the actions of bad oppressive cops and weeding the rot out of the system. But instead officers who act outside of the law are regularly defended and protected by their fellow officers. Police in general are apathetic to their own shortcomings and that means ACAB.