I know you've seen these frequently overused words from me in the past but this is another extremely important essay by a man who has spent decades in the trenches of this spiritual and, unless things change, the soon to be physical war now being waged for the soul of America. (If you don't know who John is, you can find out here: https://www.rutherford.org/about/about_john_whitehead/)
As I read John's essay, the words of two of the Founders keep running through my head:
"A nation of well-informed men, who have been taught to know and to prize the rights God has given them, cannot be enslaved. IT IS IN THE REGION OF IGNORANCE THAT TYRANNY BEGINS." Benjamin Franklin.
"Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic, but will they keep it? Or will then, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path to destruction." Thomas Jefferson.
The incredible and growing "ignorance" cited by Franklin, coupled with Mr. Jefferson's warning that the "plenty" the system they attempted to leave us has produced an apathy causing us to take "freedom" and that "material abundance" so for granted that we will soon lose it all! The expression that has most often heralded the death of those few previously free nation now gathering dust in the dumpster of history is "Why, THAT could NEVER HAPPEN HERE!"
John's excellent essay MUST lead a serious reader to conclude that it mostly has already!
I'll stop now and simply ask you to read this, think very hard and, if you agree, send this on to your friends and loved ones.
Yeah, but two cops died so you’re a hippy.
Back to,
“Just as I can finish my shift and go home to my family safely..”
I’m tired of this anti-Cop crap. How many millions of cops are out there on the street fighting off the feral dogs, and how many stories do you hear of cops doing bad stuff to citizens in comparison while the majority of these people go unthanked? Fact is most Cops are decent people. Down here in Texas, at least, I haven’t met one that wasn’t conservative, but maybe that’s just the climate.
Great article, thanks for posting.
Though provoking post and thread.
I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society. Anyway, the war against this kind of plunder has not waited for the command of these gentlemen. The war against illegal plunder has been fought since the beginning of the world. Long before the Revolution of February 1848 — long before the appearance even of socialism itself — France had provided police, judges, gendarmes, prisons, dungeons, and scaffolds for the purpose of fighting illegal plunder. The law itself conducts this war, and it is my wish and opinion that the law should always maintain this attitude toward plunder.
But it does not always do this. Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal.
But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.
Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system.
The person who profits from this law will complain bitterly, defending his acquired rights. He will claim that the state is obligated to protect and encourage his particular industry; that this procedure enriches the state because the protected industry is thus able to spend more and to pay higher wages to the poor workingmen.
Do not listen to this sophistry by vested interests. The acceptance of these arguments will build legal plunder into a whole system. In fact, this has already occurred. The present-day delusion is an attempt to enrich everyone at the expense of everyone else; to make plunder universal under the pretense of organizing it.
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
Above all, if you wish to be strong, begin by rooting out every particle of socialism that may have crept into your legislation. This will be no light task.
/Bastiat
Identify the criminal. Depopulate them from your life and the body politic.
Socialism Is Legal Plunder - Bastiat
http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/
Defund/dismantle their collectives.
Thanks for posting. Government has gotten out of hand. It’s armed enforcers are not what they used to be. Not much is.
Corruption. The corruption has started at the top and has trickled down to all of our society. Progressives are nothing more than criminals and they have infiltrated and corrupted everything. Very little of what they steal goes to the people they claim to be helping, it goes to “buy off” people who would buck them normally. All for power.
Many police departments are being bought now. Keep in mind, this in no way means all cops are bad guys. That is a mistake Americans make all the time lately. There are more decent cops than there are bad cops. For the moment, anyway.I figure the good cops are going to get the oust just like the top brass in the military got. Darren Wilson got the boot and he had no history of being a bad cop. But he is now gone.
This latest “anti cop” screed by the left is to get full control of all police departments and make them another wing of the progressive movement. The progressive will determine who gets the long arm of the law and who gets a pass.
We ain’t seen nothing yet. The stuff happening explained in this article is just the beginning. The progressive gets their way and this activity will be commonplace.
Strict adherence to the constitution should be a central plank of any conservative's political platform. We do not have to be anti-cop and we shouldn't be at this point but we should be ever pro-constitution and ever-mindful of developing threats, both foreign and domestic, to the constitution and we should be prepared to oppose those threats. That's just my 2 cents anyways.
Dress them like the military
Train them like the military
Equip them like the military
Don’t be surprised when they start acting like the military.
Awesome post. Thanks for speaking truth that far too many Whigs do not want to hear.
Elect a pro-2nd Amendment, Constitutional sheriff in your county, and you won’t have trouble with rogue cops. I have a Constitutional sheriff in my county. To date, he’s run two bad police chiefs out of office and used his investigative powers to throw a half-dozen local criminal bureaucrats into state prison. If you want a peaceful life in your neighborhood, you need legal, armed muscle to protect you. A Constitutional sheriff fills the bill.
The writer has lost his mental equilibrium. His first mistake is saying “WE” when he means “some people.”
The police do what the city administration tells them to do. The administration is responsible for the abuses of peoples’ rights.
The more military equipment Washington gives local police, the more control Washington has over them. Militarizing the local police Federalizes them.
Did anyone in Washington ever explain why the DOD gave local police bayonets?
I wouldn’t be surprised if he is shaking his fist from inside a gated community.
Ping.
