[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by racehorse

dead prez - Let's Get Free.
You MUST get this album!
It's so beautiful it's painful and so painful it's beautiful.

"I'm an African, never was an African-American"

EDIT: didn't read the whole thread, so I didn't see that it had already been mentioned. Still, double endorcement, get it now!

You have the emergence in human society
of this thing that's called the State
What is the State? The State is this organized bureaucracy
It is the po-lice department. It is the Army, the Navy
It is the prison system, the courts, and what have you
This is the State -- it is a repressive organization
But the state -- and gee, well, you know,
you've got to have the police, cause..
if there were no police, look at what you'd be doing to yourselves!
You'd be killing each other if there were no police!
But the reality is..
the police become necessary in human society
only at that junction in human society
where it is split between those who have and those who ain't got