The EZLN, a rather large chunk of southern Mexico.
The EZLN? Doesn't that have a militia? Isn't it one of a number of groups engaged in conflict against the Mexican government and other cartels? I'm not sure if that's really an argument for police abolition. If anything, it's more of an argument that Mexico's cohesiveness is fragmenting. Which is an argument that can seemingly be applied to the United States as well...
If you want to argue that a citizen's militia is preferable to a police force, then that's an argument I can at least understand, if definitely not agree with. But from what I can tell, the EZLN isn't some citizen's paradise, it's a separatist group.
...seriously?
I'm not trying to be some saviour figure, but how is any of what Lil Devils described funny?
If only there was a way to communicate with people without leaving your house.
Organize, not communicate. We're all "communicating." If you wanted to abolish the police, chances are you would have to do more than sit in front of a computer.
Fortunately, I don't have to organize myself, because while there's some calls for police abolition here, they're generally on the fringe.
Again with the stupidity of saying that people don't care about these areas, so let me be clear, because maybe you don't have the capacity to understand but specifically what stands in the way of peace achieved within the EZLN are the Neoliberal Capitalist regime of the President and the Libertarian Capitalist regime of the cartels, it's almost as if I don't know Capitalism was the problem.
Most countries in the world have capitalism. By that logic, the problems you're describing above should be found worldwide. I'm not going to tell you what the causes are of Mexico's decline, but "capitalism" strikes me as hardly the answer.
Are you living in the EZLN right now?
Yes but have you considered more cops to cop the capitalist cops into being good cops.
What does capitalism have to do with the police?
Police are employed by the state (here, on the state level, and above that, the federal level). Something like a "capitalist cop" would be something like a privatized police force. Y'know, a force that people with money can call on. The type of security forces that already exist in some parts of the world, and it's not something that fills me with confidence. When I've had to call the police in, I didn't have to pay them, because state taxes took care of that.
If the US really opposed N. Vietnam why’d they lose?
-Because the US couldn't invade the North without dragging China and/or Russia into the war.
-Because, ipso facto, the Vietnam War was an open-ended war. The North could never take the South, but the North could never be knocked out of the fight.
I mean, there's multiple reasons. I have no idea what the Vietnam War has to do with this though.