Posted on 06/08/2020 2:48:41 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
The killing of George Floyd has reverberated across the world, with protests reaching across the Atlantic.
Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer, Derek Chauvin, knelt on his neck for nine minutes. A video of the incident sparked national outrage. Chauvin has since been fired and charged with second-degree murder, an elevation from the original third-degree murder charge.
While many protests following his death remained peaceful, in cities like Minneapolis, Washington, D.C. and New York City, violence erupted and led to looting, vandalism and buildings set ablaze.
Violence consumed countless mom-and-pop businesses, many owned by minorities and immigrants, leaving behind a desert of small business, with little recourse but to plead for the public to donate to online fundraising campaigns. Insurance is not a panacea for destruction caused by looting in most of these cases.
Some have downplayed the looting and violence. Politicians, along with sympathetic members of the national media, lined up to apologize or justify the destruction. Seattle Councilmember Tammy Morales said what I dont want to hear is for our constituents to be told to be civil, not to be reactionary, to be told that looting doesnt solve anything at a council session Monday. (RELATED: Heres A List Of Media And Politicians Who Downplayed Violence And Looting)
Sally Kohn, a liberal political commentator, tweeted: Property is insured and can be replaced. Lives cannot. Check your priorities, America.
Yes, white people and every other racial group has violent members but nothing compared to the black community.
Thats sad but true.
And it goes back to the early civil rights movement in the 60s...
And yes, it is the fault of two groups. One of them being white liberal elites... The other group Uncle Toms not strong enough to maintain leadership after SNCC hijacked MLKs highly moral and ethical challenge to REAL institutional racism.
The reason police are in those neighborhoods constantly is because people in those neighborhoods call 911 when someone is breaking into their home, beating up their child, fighting with their husband or wife, turning in a rapist...Yes, and how tall did you say he was? When the description includes things like 6 foot three and black the cops arent going to drive over to a white neighborhood and pull over short white blond men.
This is a complex issue with incentive patterns that go waaaaaay beyond loot and burn solutions.
So selling cigs to minors is already a crime, but to make enforcement of this existing law possible we need "loosies" laws so police will have a pretext to prevent sales outside of the accepted channels. Sounds kind of like you're making my case for me, to wit:
...laws requiring a police state to succeed as [the law is] intended are a magnet drawing a police state into existence.
Sounds to me that you dont recognize ANY laws as legitimate.
heheh yeah, it's difficult indeed, especially when you've spent 20 years in California.
I'm in good company though - thomas aquinas and St. Augustine - lex iniusta non est lex" or "an unjust law is no law at all."
Since the law is part of the edifice of Government, and Government is a necessary evil, it stands to reason that a multiplicity of ever-intertwined law leads to a expansion of Government edifice and therefore opportunity to propel Government into the evil beyond the bounds of necessary service to the people.
To me, the proper perspective is to always be adversarial to the thesis that a law is intrinsically good or government is intrinsically good. I prefer to view it as simply better than the alternative, with adversarial caution as a justifiable perspective. In fact, to deride concern over how a law might be unjust implies there is a prima-facie justification of such concern.
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Same crap some liberal stoner was pushing on my local liberal rag comment section.
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