Posted on 10/10/2023 5:49:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Recent instances of Vermont store-goers detaining and even assaulting would-be thieves reveal growing societal tensions seeded by progressive policies.
Recent instances of Vermont store-goers detaining and even assaulting would-be thieves reveal growing societal tensions seeded by progressive policies. Vermont’s law enforcement services are anemic due to anti-police rhetoric, racialization of courts, and lax prosecutorial policies. Vermont is not enforcing basic criminal laws, as gang-related violence and property crimes transform communities, drug overdoses skyrocket, and businesses are compromised. Citizens are tired of being victimized by government failure: many are taking matters into their own hands.
On September 6, customers restrained a shoplifter in a Walmart parking lot in Berlin, Vermont. After arresting and charging the suspect, the Berlin Police Department sought to discourage similar public actions in an official statement:
“The Berlin Police Department must advise against taking the law into your own hands,” the BPD press release about the incident stated. “While it can be frustrating to witness injustice or experience wrongdoing, it is important to remember that there are legal systems and authorities in place to handle these situations. Taking the law into your own hands can result in unintended consequences and may even lead to further harm or escalation of the situation. Remember, respect for law and order helps to maintain a peaceful and just society.”
Precarious Policing The police cannot very well advocate otherwise, but this statement raises the question: if Vermont’s progressive Legislature had respected law and order, this crime wave would not require citizen interdiction. It is in the name of a false utopian “peaceful and just society” that Vermont is being systematically dismantled — culturally, economically, and socially.
Criminals have no respect for law and order in Vermont because of no-bail policies that allow them to commit numerous offenses in the same day...
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A woke society makes the work of the police even harder than it already was.
“there are legal systems and authorities in place to handle these situations.”
Really? Where are these legal systems and authorities?
Oh I've read about them -- in history books. Actually remember when they existed. Now they're just a fantasy.
Until a few leftist activist judges feel the wrath of the people, the status quo will remain.
“Taking the law into your own hands can result in unintended consequences”
This is NOT a gentle reminder.
It is a threat of legal action.
Just Don’t Comply
Be Ungovernable
“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand
Lazy ass government employees need a dose of reality. There should be a ten year maximum on government employment. No pension plans. No unions. No extended vacations. Just a job. Once the ten years are up they can rotate back into the private sector. I don’t want to hear any excuses about institutional knowledge and other crap. Constitutional government jobs should be simple because there isn’t much government should be doing. Private citizens can take care of themselves and each other.
“While it can be frustrating to witness injustice or experience wrongdoing, it is important to remember that there are legal systems and authorities in place to handle these situations.”
Apparently this isn’t true any more. At least this idiot police chief would have a hard time proving his assertion to me.
Most people don’t realize that cops, courts, jails, and prisons don’t exist to protect good people from evil people. They exist to protect evil people from good people who have had enough of evil and take care of the problem themselves.
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when seconds count, the police are minutes away.
...and when they arrive, they hide behind their cars and call for backup....
“The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws’’. Tacitus, Roman philosopher.
FBI stats have >1M preventative uses of guns per year. Why? ‘Cause coppers can’t be everywhere and criminals are not slow. If they pose a danger shoot to kill if they don’t back off immediately.
JUst go all Skidmore on them.
When the civil authorities fail to act you give raise to vigilantism
Some police departments are ran by politicians who support the criminal element and they are ordered to look the other way, do nothing or out right do not enforce the law. It’s not the police officers fault but their civilian bosses.
All police departments have their sorry cracks who won’t do anything. In my sons small department they have officers month in and month out who have no arrests, citations or anything, that is on leadership.
In any case this is creating the perfect storm for the criminal element as they get a free pass and the government at the state and local levels have decided not to fulfill one of the most basic reasons for it’s very creation and existence to “establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity”. At some point the question begs to be asked, why am I paying taxes to these lazy bums?
Eventually the people will say to hell with the criminals and the government and take matters into their own hands and deal with the criminal element, human nature will take its course. When this happens the governments at all levels will go bat crap crazy and fiercely prosecute anyone caught exercising vigilantism. People caught will be paraded and prosecuted and some successfully until the crime reaches a point where no jury, a jury of their peers who has been victimized by the criminals, is going to convict a vigilante, then the government will have to decide, do we do our job or throw in openly with the criminal element which will create a bigger backlash from the citizenry.
This is a simple fix, state and local governments, DO YOUR JOBS!
Ken McElroy Skidmore, Missouri. Nobody saw or knows a thing. 40 years later they still don't. Yeah, that kind of street justice.
We just sold our place in Vermont. We’ve been living in Alaska the past ten years and we are making that permanent.
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