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seems like last jump had an increase in law enforcement officers.
how nice. i know i for one feel much safer with some of new york's finest aboard.

all i want to do is my work anyway I choose to do it, all I want is the next line and the line after that. what they do and who they are and what they want and what they say and what they write has no interest for me and, unfortunately for them, no interest to most others living, dying or about to be born, uh huh.

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[birdhousesoul]

There are people aboard who aren't literate. I'm going to read your post to them before I reply.

[And he does. He reads the free verse as though it were prose, because to Anders, poetry is rhyming or alliterative, in some metrical form or other, and he assumes that the spacing of Keller's post is merely an artifact of the communicator.]

Thus ends the message. I've only got one thing to say to it, really:

What sort of place do you come from, that the presence of law enforcement officers would actually make you feel safer?

permatext

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aren't you a good samaritan. gold star.

why, they don't make you feel safe?

permavoice

[birdhousesoul]

[Anders assumes Ros et al will be able to discern the conversation from this point forward just from hearing his side of it. If any new or substantial information is shared, though, he'll read it.]

I really don't get called good very often, and I'm sure I haven't got a clue what a samaritan might be. It doesn't take much effort to be mindful. Literacy is a privilege. You're lucky to have been taught.

And no. They don't make me feel safe. Rather the opposite. Why should they make you, personally, feel any safer?

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you'd be surprised

most people don't have any problem with the boys in blue where i come from
you got dirty cops on your world or something?

[birdhousesoul]

[Taking cop in context to equate roughly with city guardsmen:]

How should they be anything but dirty? Their job is to shore up the existing power structure. They protect the privilege of the moneyed classes. They're incompetent besides -- they've got to turn to independent parties when they want anything really solved, or discovered, or stopped.

[blunted]

wow.

so you really got shafted on that front

[birdhousesoul]

Which is it that you had? Money, or connections, or both?

[blunted]

none of the above