Cops And Robbers

I played a lot of games as a kid. Cowboys or cavalry and Indians, Robin Hood, astronaut, soldier and a whole host of other things I'd invent alone and with others. I guess I started writing and acting early, but so do most kids. Make believe. But as we know, there is a basis in fact for a lot of this. We would imitate history and current events. This includes cops and robbers.

When I think of the truth behind the stories, I realize how we have been led down the primrose path. All the talk of 'public safety' is as old as history indeed. Long have leaders and other officials rung the alarm bell concerning dangers, short and long term of a criminal element or some enemy threatening society's well being. They say our very lives are at stake when these people ply their trades. What happens is a gradual loss of Freedom. Individual responsibility is traded for what has recently been called 'security'. Then, indeed, the claims become a self fulfilling prophecy.

Of course, veracity exists in their claims. Our own encounters with drug dealers/makers have been exceedingly hazardous at times. There have been dangers from Hitlers and Lenins and so many others. In spite of real peril, the ultimate price paid is loss of Liberty. Cops and robbers always aid and abet the police state. Both are rewarded.

Cops, serving the state, get lots of laws to regulate and enforce. Government money (our noney) to support these efforts follows. Their 'authority' and power increases. They now can legally steal. Revenue from raids etc generates more financial control.

Robbers are not burdened with obeying any laws (except their own codes). Money from their 'businesses' generates growth, along with gangland power.

Both often reward one another, playing a kind of butt tag , often colluding and using one another's orgs.

I recall the Prohibition days with Capone and Dillinger etal. Then came Eliot Ness with the Prohibition Bureau for Chicago. The Bureau of Investigation (Soon to be the FBI.) gained prominence then as well. First the attempt to legislate morality/personal behavior. Then comes the National Firearms Act, among others, in answer to the 'criminal element' posing a threat to the public as a result of outlawing booze. Hegellian Dialectic rings a bell. More of a symbiosis methinks.

Since then, bureaucracy has exploded, morphing into the gargantuan monster it is now (And yes, it existed before the Roaring Twenties, especially since Lincoln. Think federal reserve and taxing.). The ultimate price? Our rights, our enumerated Freedoms are compromised-not gone. Technically they are still there. But we know that we must undo the Gordian Knot that seeks to enslave us. We are therefore at war.

Pile on pile of efforts to rid problems actually increase them vis a vis Prohibition. Though repealed, none of the gov regs resulting from that stupid idea have gone away. Booze is regulated. Smokes are regulated. Guns are regulated. Behavior modification is continuing with legislation paving its way.

Lest you ask, Prohibition's aftermath was the foot in the door. These attacks on Freedom always start with the 'best of intentions'. Sin taxes, following sex offenders, destroying the drug trade (lol), eliminating poverty etc. All of the measures involved are easily turned on all of us. With more statute law, we can see how we are all becoming criminals ala Ayn Rand's comments.

Need I mention the Patriot Act after 911? Much of it seems ok, even innocuous, til you actually read it and compare it with previous efforts as mentioned above and continued crimes against the Republic. It and the 'laws' it is spawning stab the heart of Freedom. Quite a list of abuses and usurpations. Yes, we are at war.

To fight this war, we must continue to make plain how it was started and who started it. It is a war of self defense on all levels. Yet we let it happen. We share the blame. Without the people acquiescing, the state could have gained no ground. Study history, including current events. Sound off loud and clear. Demand our rights. As they seem to dwindle, remind yourselves and others that they cannot be taken away except on the condition that we don't defend them.

The offenses against US mount. It's 'for the children', to 'rid' us of-fill in the blank. All the time cops and robbers profit while the people lose.

We are attacked. We can and will counter.

If we know these conditions, we can eventually win.