Great post! Though we will all be criminals. In fact, many of us would be considered criminals today for speaking of liberty and the responsibilities of a free people.
We can see the results of our nation’s aligning itself with evil and allowing evil free reign. Most Americans are not acquainted with evil in the raw. They recognize her pretty face, but avert their eyes from her blood-stained hands. This is normal behavior, but it is also very useful to those who are evil. Psychopaths and sociopaths use those assumptions to sway their victims-and they have no one but victims around.
So what part for the criminal gangs? It is not quite as black-and-white as both sides want to paint it. OMGs are criminal gangs by their own definition. That makes them a perfect target for the state and creates a groundswell of approval from a public who is not uninformed, but a public purposefully cultured with the greatest psycho-socio media barrages ever imagined—campaigns welcomed as entertainment and disguised as social interaction.
Desensitization is a crucial step in tyranny. As society crumbled and stratified, 1930s Germany was primed for a good law-and-order candidate. Jews and gypsies in Europe had a similar reputation and were the target of the states forever. While the Jews were productive members of society, they were secretive, shady businessmen who got rich off the labor of honest men and conspired to keep others poor. The Gypsies were all criminals—everyone knows that. Sure, these government troops were a little rough around the edges, but they offered order, security and pride to a nation that had been stripped of all.
Evil rarely appears in full regalia, but insidiously creeps into the shadows that fill the periphery of all civilized societies. By the time the darkness is apparent to all, it has infiltrated everywhere. We should not align ourselves with criminals, but we need to stand up for the rights of all—especially those who are the first targets of the leviathan, lest we find ourselves channeling Niemöller after our society lays in ruin at our feet.
Great post. And the snip is bottom line and fundamental to the liberty that we claim to cherish and say that we wish to restore and preserve.