A crime in those days, was having long hair and beard, ...if you
looked like Jesus Christ, THEY 'd Crucify you, they'd trump charges all over
the place, just to get court appearance money...if you were a loner, you
were a goner as well.

        Most narks were shooting up to 40 caps a day to supply their habit,
the Blue Cops had a gun edge over any pacifist hippies, and THEY thought
they were tough, arbitrarily enforcing their limited experience of what a
drug user or hippie was. A gun/badge can buy a lot of Dope for such users,
or just straight cash pillaging's.

        They wanted to tell everybody what to eat for breakfast, while
shitting in it 1st. A cop is only as good as his cache of guns and shields
as for what they do you, that is their business, not yours....read the law.

|>an amazing 57%! But that was in the 1970's. Smith went back to East Van a
|>few years ago and walked his old beat with the media. He said for the first
|>time in his life he was frightened to go down there. I think he said there

        Living w/o a gun after 30 years of having one at all times, is like
kicking a BIG drug habit, especially if you have to face your karma all at
once.

|>was a different type of addict down there now. Mostly crack and meth heads

        Some are addicts, some chippers, some career users, and some just
experimenting life with the Timothy Leary type's Philosophy/Psychology.

|>etc.. They are a lot more violent than they were in the 70's when the drug
|>of choice was heroin and of course "booze".

        Most got fed up with police brutalities, and homicides, based on the
Cop Badge which would be a bit much like a HAMC badge, nothing much
different.....nobody want's to be badgered by idiots.

        There are lot's more residence home invasion, bar shootings, the
impulse is more sporadic than the calculated risks and executions of off
shore banking and drug dealings of today.

Bob