The older I get ... each day that passes by ... the more I realize how evil government truly is. Just think about it ...
If mankind is so awful that people cannot be allowed to be free, then why do we assume the infallibility of our Overlords? Well, at least as long as they belong to "our" political party, right?
Why is that? Are they gifted with special DNA? Did God create them differently than the rest of us mere mundanes?
From the federal government all the way down to the local level, politicians and bureaucrats plunder, abuse their power, and then expect us to thank them for their crimes. Police violence and abuse has become epidemic in America. But of course, all of this is to be expected. As F.A. Hayek famously stated, "In government, the scum rises to the top."
Police state America
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadow about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. – P.J. O'Rourke, "A Parliament of Whores"
Americans have long been accustomed to respect the police according to the Norman Rockwell portrait of the friendly, small-town peacekeeper. But those days have been gone for decades ... replaced by a steroid-abusing, paramilitarized bully in black body armor with a bad attitude. Driven by an insatiable demand for revenue on the part of state and local governments, the police forces of America have been pillaging American private property like vandals sacking Rome; millions of dollars worth of private property has been seized without warrant and without any charges being filed under the cover of the drug war.
And the corruption and degradation of the American police increasingly comes with a body count ... Without offering any provocation or protest, [West Point graduate Erik Scott] was Tasered, then shot seven times, four times in the back as he lay on the ground dying. His crime? He was a Concealed Carry Weapons license holder and was legally carrying a gun that he never brandished or even attempted to draw.
This police execution was carried out in the full view of many eyewitnesses and was recorded by several of Costco's security cameras ... immediately confiscated by the police ... [who] are now claiming ... is useless for the purposes of determining what happened. The lying blue line is in full throat, with the police captain telling transparent lies ...
For decades, conservatives have attempted to excuse even lethal police abuses by arguing that the dangerous nature of the job and the stresses it entails somehow justify widespread criminal activity on the part of law enforcement officers. But this is a logically incoherent argument. Police work isn't even among the 10 most dangerous occupations; it is 13 times less dangerous than working as a professional fisherman. And the wide rate at which police commit suicide, become alcoholics and get divorced is ... a sign that the job tends to attract psychologically troubled individuals.
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