Posted on 09/11/2024 6:00:54 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Everything you have been taught, all your life, about the police and the courts and the justice system is a lie.
Take all your mental images, everything you learned in primary school, every episode of "Perry Mason" or "Law and Order" or "The Rookie", crumple them up, throw them away. Banish them to a corner of your mind prominently labeled "fairy stories for little kids".
That is not how any of this works.
The police do not exist to protect you from criminals.
Detectives do not exist to investigate crime and find the offenders.
Courts do not exist to find the guilty and punish them.
Before there were detectives, before there were police, before there were courts or even codified law, those who offended the community were stopped. They were found. They were punished.
They were found, stopped, and punished by a mob of their neighbors.
First courts, then police, then detectives and investigative agencies were introduced, not to catch criminals, but as an alternative to mob justice.
But that wasn't because mob justice doesn't protect you, punish criminals, or keep order. It does those things just fine.
No, these things were introduced because mobs sometimes lynch the wrong person, or punish the right person disproportionately to the crime.
Police and courts exist to protect the accused from your outrage. They exist not create justice, but to focus it, tame it, point it in a safe direction.
As western civilization became powerful, rich, technologically advanced, refined, we began to be able to afford the luxury of scruples, principles... philosophy.
We advanced beyond the mere need to keep order, and developed systems for tempering vengeance and order with justice, and ultimately mercy.
It was difficult and complex, but we could figure it out.
t was expensive, but we could afford it.
And it worked.
Not perfectly, but so well we forgot it was a substitute for the mob.
And agents of the justice system forgot that they are not warriors and paladins who fight to protect, but arbitrators and diplomats who balance opposing interests.
They began to fancy themselves sheepdogs who protect the sheep, forgetting that sheepdogs don't protect sheep. They herd sheep. Wild sheep are protected by rams.
They forgot where the word "rampage" comes from.
Because when police and courts and officers of the law fail to be an improvement on mob justice, then mob justice will return.
It will be as brutal as ever. It will be as capricious as ever. It will punish some of the innocent along with the guilty.
But it will do what mob justice always did. It will stop anti-social thugs from re-offending, either through fear and deterrence, or the dirt of a shallow grave.
The first people to get fed up and inflict street justice will, of course, arouse the ire of the system. Even when the police don't do their jobs, they will not suffer anyone else to do them instead, lest it come to light that they are a luxury, not a necessity.
But police are only numerous and powerful enough to stop the small minority of people who can't behave. They cannot deal with an entire society of outraged, angry, violent men, decent men, sons, brothers, husbands, fathers, who are tired of having their decency mistaken for weakness.
Police can treat men who try to stop criminals as if they were criminals, arresting them, charging them, imprisoning them, trying to deter the rest.
But mobs can treat the police who try to defend outlaws as they were outlaws, by administering street justice to them as well.
This is what the UK is on the verge of. It just depends how long it takes more of the population to decide that they have little to lose in opposing a system that already plans to take everything away from them and leave them with nothing.
People are tough. Civilization is fragile.
Plan accordingly.
Yup! Since I was a kid, it thought America would always be safe and and that the FBI would always protect America and Americans. And then the Kenyan boy came along and changed all that. Now, they are out to get us.
Yep. Know first hand about this.
I’ve been saying this sort of thing for awhile.
The left wants to defund the police. I’m all for it.
The Left seems to want anarchy. Hey, lets give it a try.
I don’t especially want a safe society. I want a society that has a heck of a lot fewer troublemakers.
It’s all a pack of feel-good do-good lies. Corrupt, broken, political.
People here the term ‘Vigilante’ and they blanche. Now forgotten is that the San Francisco Vigilantes, founded in 1856 to eliminate crime so rampant that no one was safe, hung about 30 miscreants from a local building.The criminals found safer pickings at a new gold field in Australia and elsewhere. The city was so safe the Vigilantes disbanded in 1858. They had been, and were, citizens first and a system of law and order second.
Nailed It!!!
I could have written that (not me).
‘Almost’ perfect, but very, very good for a logical rant.
The police and courts have been failing for quite some time now. Police are turning into thugs, and courts are letting people go.
I’ve lived in Communist countries. In those places, police, detective and courts serve the POLITICS of the regime.
Although in these places common pick-pockets and shoplifters (to the extent they existed) would be caught and tried - when you remove the basis of seeking justice, equality under the law, and protecting private property, one finds the motivations (and thus the outcomes) of police and courts to be very different - and often, its best to avoid using them if at all possible.
Sadly, I see the same developing in the USA as well.
The Left were for 'defunding' YOUR local police. Notice they never spoke a word about defunding Fed.gov law enforcement or the security state, which are larger than ever. "Defund Police" was an Obama/Holder, top-down political and cultural movement to get America's 3000 local and independent sheriffs and police firmly under DOJ control. It WORKED.
The Left seems to want anarchy. Hey, lets give it a try.
Anarchy for you, on your streets, again means power and control for those in charge. A population that is demoralized and seeking security is easily controlled.
Don't be confused. These are standard control techniques of marxists and fascists.
It started decades ago. Just watch an episode of the original Hawaii 5-0, Kojak, Hunter, etc. to see how infected the show is with outright lies about law and individual rights. The later shows such as Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, Law and Order, CSI, NCIS, Bluebloods, Criminal Minds, Chicago P.D., etc are outright Leftist propaganda.
The one show that most accurately portrayed the role of police in modern society is 'Reno 911'.
Yep, anarchy will result in the left and illegals getting away with everything while cops and authorities clamp down hard on the right and conservatives who try to defend themselves against thugs.
That is happening now to an extent, but will get much worse if anarchy rules the day, and the left sieze the opportunity to instal total tyranny to “control the anarchy” (but only to clamp down on conservatives, not on the thugs).
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Don't ever talk to the Police
Bttt.
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The police are the protectors of the criminal class.
Yeah, defund them. They cost too much and they are an obstacle to justice.
During the riots of the last 10 years, they did nothing but protect the rioters from the people. And that’s an egregious crime.
100% correct. Anarchy is imposed on you, but the ability to organize yourself, local government, or civil society to fix the anarchy around you is absolutely denied and suppressed.
Again, standard 20th century Marxist/Fascist governing tactics.
“...The left wants to defund the police. I’m all for it...”
Also the DOJ and FBI, which are the new MAFIA. Those filthy scumbags need to pay the ultimate price for what they have become. I would not care if every FBI agent in Washington DC were executed, point blank, gang style. They would deserve it, starting with Himmler Garland.
A long overdue correction is coming.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” - Isaiah 5:20
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