Thursday, December 8, 2011

Protests and Pensions

Jimmy O'toole loved beating people up.  The rush he got when he knew a fight might be in the wind was like no other.  He especially like roughing up women.  They cried when he hit them, and there was little chance they would fight back.  But Jimmy stayed away from big guys, especially if they looked like they were ex military.  That is unless he and his buddies outnumbered the guy at least five to one, or he could shoot the guy from a safe distance.

Jimmy knew all the dirty tricks you needed in a street fight.  If your going to shoot somebody, aim for the head, then wait for people to try to help the person, then shoot them too.   He knew how to instigate a fight, so it was fought on his terms.

Yea, Officer O'toole loved being a big city cop.   There was always something going on.  Loiterers to be roughed up, petty thieves to slap around once you got them back to the station, were all good stuff.  But to Jimmy they couldn't  hold a candle to a protest, expecially if it turned into a riot, for sheer excitement.

There were so many possibilities at a protest, sneak up behind somebody and pepper spray 'em.   Get them down on the ground, cuff 'em then kick the crap out of them before you load them in the van.  O'toole could hit a protester in the head at a distance with a rubber bullet or a tear gas canister, better than anyone.  To Jimmy it didn't matter if they were 18 or 80, man or women, it was the cops against "those people", and "those people" needed to be kept in line,  they needed to know who was the boss, and the boss was Jimmy.

The Occupy Wall Street protesters were held in special contempt in Jimmy's eyes.   To him they were just a bunch of dirty smelly college kids that didn't want to have to pay their loans back.  Hey, nobody held a gun to their heads and made them take those loans out, he thought.  They just needed to get off their lazy liberal asses and get themselves a job.

OWS had the 1%er's nervous.  They were so close to crushing the working classes around the world, and bringing stability to their class by imposing neo-fuedalism on everyone else, that they could taste it.  The movement HAD to be crushed as soon as possible. 

In 2013 the Department of Homeland Security decided to coordinate the infiltration of the movement with some armed undercover cops to incite some real violence.  Then they would declare OWS a terrorist organization and shut it down for good.  Officer O'toole jumped at the chance to be one of those undercover provocateurs.

It was decided that a group of TV reporters would be assembled near where the police were lined up.  A few undercover cops mixed in with the OWS'ers would throw some rocks and bottles at the cops, the cops would fire back a couple of teargas canisters, then Jimmy would shoot one of the reporters once there was enough confusion to provide him cover.

It worked like a charm.  The video of the dead reporter, was seen all over the country.  The same scenario was repeated at a few other OWS protests, then as planned the group was labeled a terrorist organization.  People were arrested and held indefinitely without trials, which was now completely legal in the US.

OWS was the last hurrah for the working classes, they had been crushed.  Any attempts at organizing new protests were met with extreme violence.   Social programs were shutdown,  The .01%ers began slowy raiding Social Security and pension plans because that was where the last real wealth remained that wasn't yet owned by them.

Officer O'toole was forced to retire in 2023 at age 50 due to a repetitive motion injury from all the beatings he had given people over the years with his night stick.   His fellow officers joked that he had to retire because of "tennis elbow".

Jimmy had only collected is pension for 7 months, when it was raided too.
O'toole went nuts when he found out his pension was gone.  He called the station, and was told 'times were tough and the city could no longer afford to pay him'.  That just made him even madder, so he headed to the station to get some answers face to face.

The department was ready for O'toole and any other pissed off pensioners.   Dozens of fresh recruits were standing in front of the building in full riot gear.  Psychological screening had been used to be sure only low information authoritarian types were now hired as cops.  These new cops would blindly follow orders, and had little in the way of skills to determine if what they were told was true or not.

These new recruits were told they would not be getting pensions because the money was stolen by the older cops.  Of course it wasn't true but it made the young cops hate the old ones.  Divide and concur, it works like a charm on the uninformed every time.

O'toole approached the line of recruits.  "I'm here to talk to the Cheif, I have no beef with you guys!", he said.  As he got closer to the line, the 5 recruits that were nearest to him broke ranks and descended on him with the their night sticks.  "You lookin' for your retirement? We'll here it comes!" yelled the lead recruit, and they proceeded to savagely beat Jimmy.

The last thing Jimmy saw before he passed out was their 5 smiling faces.  They too loved being big city cops.

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