BERKELEY — A haunting video has surfaced online showing what police in Berkeley have been doing to students.

Haunting not only because of the graphic violence and the screams, but also because it shows the role of a police officer in its purest form: the role of protecting a political ruling class.

This footage was not aired by state-controlled media outlets (whether MSNBC or Fox or CNN, it doesn’t matter).

What you see here is a large group of officers — from 20 to 50 or more — all acting in unison to swarm in and beat students.

Some of them can be seen smiling as they do it.

Every time someone tells you we “need them for protection,” remember what you are about to see and hear in this video.

What you see here are individuals who choose, willingly, to accept government hand-outs in exchange for protecting that very government, its courts, its prisons, and its politicians, from the people over which it rules.

That is the sole purpose of a police institution, and it always has been.

It’s an institution designed to pluck up individuals of the lowest character from society, make them feel important, and march them off to do a government’s bidding.

That is the essence of a police force.

If you can watch this video of dozens of low-IQ, out-of-shape men dressed in costumes, beating young girls with sticks and enjoying it, feeling important about themselves for doing so, and if you still insist on defending such men as “protectors,” then go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels nor your arms.

Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

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