Learning From Ferguson

The question of self-defense against the police is one that we
are not allowed to consider, yet it is the only one that makes
sense. The police do not exist to protect society from generalized
cannibalism and mayhem, as in some paranoid Batman fantasy.
They exist to protect the haves from the have-nots, to maintain the
State’s monopoly on violence, and to make up for our atrophied
capacity for conflict resolution, another of the many
prerogatives the State has stolen from us...