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Lies we were told
<p>Police is your friend</p><p><br/></p><p>This is coming from a place of immense anger.</p><p>I am furious that I was lied to as a kid.</p><p>"It is to protect you", they say.</p><p>I do not need your protection, save it</p><p>I would have preferred to be told the truth as a kid.</p><p><br/></p><p>Something along the lines of "your future is in your hands"</p><p>"The country does not care about you".</p><p>If I had been told this instead of "police is your friend", I would have invested in crypto instead of watching zee world.</p><p><br/></p><p>I was instead in my rainbow world filled with unicorns and cookies believing the world is a good place.</p><p>I might be exaggerating but still I'd have preferred the truth.</p><p>Particularly, this lie about the police being my friend ticks me off.</p><p>The image of the police I have in my head is very different from the one I have of the people I call friends.</p><p>The police is not my friend.</p><p>They would never be.</p><p><br/></p><p>I see them as bald men with bulging stomach that is clearly too big for their undersized shirts.</p><p>I see men that are supposed to be protecting us pocketing bribe that they have forced to become a norm.</p><p>I mean, how is it normal that transporters who are struggling to make a living have to pay you like it's some tax.</p><p>I don't think it was part of the job description.</p><p>Some of them force smiles when they see you because at the end of the day, they don't have a choice.</p><p> </p><p>I see men that would even ask for your mother's birth certificate if your vehicle credentials are complete. </p><p>Men that would harass you to no end just to collect money from you. </p><p>Now, they are no longer satisfied with peanuts from transporters. They now abduct people and extort them. </p><p>These people have no choice but to pay because "when there is life, there is hope". </p><p>I would rather drop my money than die too. </p><p><br/></p><p>They are supposed to protect us from evildoers but they are the evildoers. </p><p>Who do I run to in times of trouble?</p><p>I can't run to the same people that are either the evil doers or are in cahoots with them. </p><p>God forbid a child is told the truth. </p><p>The next time I see a policeman, I'd be sure to... </p><p>I don't know what I would do but I will make sure to not lie to my kids and prepare them for the world, as it is. </p><p><br/></p>
Lies we were told
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