I don't want to live on this planet anymore

[Phynx]

Disclosure: HUGE wall of text that I highly recommend reading. It's filled with some very strong emotional statements about 2 very large situations covered by this video. Just know, these are my personal feelings and opinions. I told them how I seen them.

About the cops.

I can, based on my biased opinion, assume that people are merely overreacting. Mind you, I'm not here to incite rage or discontent in people, I just want to share what I feel I'm interpreting from this whole scenario.

I watched the video thoroughly with the assumption that the protestors did nothing wrong. By my point of view, they didn't unless they were passively disturbing the peace, blocking traffic, or preventing businesses from operating. But I have to agree with a previous poster, at the end of the day, cops are people too. Mind you this comes with a lot of stipulations when you say a cop is human. It may seem brutal for the cops to have done what they did BUT, again as someone I'm sure already pointed out, had they not shown "some" force, things could have gotten out of hand. In large social situations like these, you can't expect everyone to have their head straight on their shoulders when they are protesting with others. If these people go unchecked, they could turn things violent. By the cops doing what they did, it COULD BE that very thing that prevented a large violent reaction due to the fear of arrest and prosecution because the cops were obviously serious about keeping order.

Another thing I want to point out, I do enjoy seeing the media chipping away at our government in any way they can. I enjoy it because it slowly brings more light to the majority about the governments' corruption, which there is, as much as some of you will want to deny it. But I want to say, this video in NOT how I want to see the media chip at the government. The collective police force of this nation is rather miraculous. Men and women serving the public with real intentions on safety, order, peace, and preserving liberty. This video and Lawrences analysis highlights the rather small, darker side of the police force. Videos like these make people think, for the most part, that all police forces are bad and corrupt. This is a blatant lie. Hell just where I live, the police are amazing. I know most of them in this town personally and I have never seen cops treat citizens so fair. They are polite, kind hearted, and what I love most is during large social events in our town, the cops really keep things safe and are really friendly about their business. Only time they show brute force is when someone goes haywire and turns a situation violent.

So this video is good for all the wrong reasons.

Back to my original statement. People are overreacting to this. Lawrence is overreacting, looking at the comments of youtubers, the majority are overreacting(which plays into people thinking all law enforcements are bad), and even some of you guys are overreacting. I don't defend these cops as I wasn't part of the event, nor do I condone their actions. There WERE better ways of handling the situation but how they handled the situation wasn't necessarily "bad" persay.


As for the protest and protestors.

I want to go on the record to say, I don't know the entire reasoning behind this protest, all I know is that it's against the corruption currently in our government.

I want to shred some feelings on the current situation on our government so take this all with a grain of salt, these are my personal experiences.

First off, living in America really is easy. There's not one part of this country that is hard to live in. If you want a good life, there's really only one solid, tried-and-true, proven, set-in-stone way of attaining a good life in America. WORK. All a man or woman has to do to survive and even provide themselves and their families a GOOD life is to work. I want to make this clear using myself as an example. People are always on the record moaning and crying about forclosures, about losing jobs, about all the things that went wrong that caused them to lose "everything." What isn't stated is what the people themselves did TO themselves that caused it. The majority of foreclosures in this nation were due to people ignorantly choosing adjustable rate mortgages. Do your research people, this is fact. What an adjustable rate mortgage means is that your mortgage interest rate can fluctuate with current local and national economies. The problem with these types of mortgages are that, back in 20xx people could sign for a house at x.x% with an adjustable rate. Back in the early 2000's these rates were low, and currently are low again. But when the big housing crisis hit, these rates evacuated all of their security and blew through the roof to try and re-establish financial security. People were seeing over 30% interest rates in some places. This is insane. That would make my personal mortgage payment a month over $500 more. Yeah, that would make me foreclose too.

What people SHOULD have done is studied their mortgage options more before signing on a house. A large portion of homeowners survived the housing crash simply due to two facts. 1. They worked. 2. They got a locked-in mortgage rate that can NEVER change under law. These people never seen their mortgage payments fluctuate at all. So for those that had a set mortgage rate but still lost their house, well, my personal guess is that they weren't working or had recently bought the house for more money than they could afford.

I'm 21, own my own house, own my own vehicles, provide for myself completely and cover all of my expenses under my own power and at the end of the day, I still have money left over for fun.

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THIS IS HOW EASY IT IS TO LIVE IN AMERICA! It's not hard. No matter where you live. As long as you have a steady job, and it doesn't even have to pay you that much, as long as you don't jump into something you can't afford and don't over-extend your expenses each month, living in America truly is easy as hell. The government with all their spending still hasn't made America a hard place to live. So correct me if I'm wrong about something here.

(oh and for anyone who might think "well you make a lot of money so you can afford these things" no, I really don't. I make on average only $2,300 a month before taxes. Just that little amount allows me to live rather lavishly so stop complaining.)

Moral of the Story: Police collectively are awesome. I love them and their sacrifice to provide me with safety and security. Also, America rules. I can say that with a strong foundation of personal experience. Living here is amazing and easy. Just don't be lazy and work and you'll be just fine.

Holy christ that was a lot to type.