The Law Is for Protection of the People

The Supreme Court ruled in 1972 that vagrancy, loitering and suspicious persons laws are unconstitutional. In the era before country music was taken over by boot lickers, Chris Kristofferson wrote a song called "the law is for protection of the people" Authoritarians start to return as often as they can get away with poking at what they can reinstitute because we're all entitled to be free from police violence," he says.