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Abolish The Police, The Way Things Ought to Be

What Are Christians Smoking?

There has been a lot of cop worship on Facebook from Christian friends lately. Christians aren’t supposed to be into idolatry, but we all have our blind spots. I’d like to respond to a couple of memes in hopes of limiting the idolatry in the future.

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First of all, no one has ever said the government or cops want large groups of people dead. They don’t want to kill their source of funds.

But, they are the biggest thieves around, by far. They’ve stolen more from me in unjust taxes than any thief could ever dream. I’m much more worried about their thievery than any amateur thief.

As far as death squads roaming the streets if police stopped patrolling, that wouldn’t happen. The American people are armed. Criminals rarely break into houses with people in them, because they’re much more likely to be shot.

Furthermore, as hard as it is to believe, police aren’t the only option. I can hire private security. If my neighbors were to go in with me, it would become cheap per household to have a guy patrol our block at $12/hour with a gun and a marked car. In fact, he would be able to provide a much better response time, and do it more cost effectively because entrepreneurs are motivated by profit to serve their fellow man in a more cost-efficient manner than government. And private security can’t force me to pay for their service if I don’t want it.

Finally, there have been times when police have stopped patrolling and there was no mass-devastation, or any devastation from gangs of criminals roaming the streets. To say that we would all die if cops left us unprotected is nothing more than government PR, BS, and idolatry.

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This one is just as preposterous. Did they protect me from thieves? No, they use threats of violence to steal thousands of dollars from me every year. Did they protect Alton Sterling and hundreds of other victims of police murder every year? No, they murdered them. Did they protect the rights of drivers on the roads who harmed no one? No, they write thousands of tickets per day for “crimes” with no victim to generate revenue for their government.

I had a discussion with an older Christian man who was making fun of Canadian health care, and calling them socialists for their health care system. I pointed out to him that Canadians are only socialist on one more thing (and with Obamacare we’re equal) than Americans. I listed off a few examples including fire services, security services, public schools, and social security. He said, “I don’t mind paying for things like police.” I regret that I was too polite with him. I should have called him an outright commy socialist. The problem with socialism is that people are forced to pay for things they don’t want. He doesn’t want health care from the government, so he’s pissed that he is being forced to pay for it. But, he wants police services from the government, so he’s OK with forcing me to pay for it.

Police need to be abolished. They are the criminal gang. They are the thugs with their colors.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

List of Most Dangerous Jobs

1. Logging workers
2. Fishing and related workers
3. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
4. Other extraction workers
5. Roofers
6. Refuse and recyclable material collectors
7. Mining machine operators
8. Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
9. Farmers, ranchers
10. Electrical power-line installers and repairers
11. Construction laborers
12. Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
13. Maintenance and repair workers, general
14. Grounds maintenance workers
15. Police and sheriff’s patrol officers

From here.

I’ve never seen the grounds maintenance workers complaining about how dangerous their job is. I’ve never heard of them abusing anyone because it’s better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6, or because the most important thing is to go home at the end of the shift.

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Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Beautiful Answer

The Bible says that the government is to wield the sword to punish evildoers, so there has to be someone to punish evil. But for day-to-day security services that the police provide by theft of tax money, there is a better way. This random dude on Facebook, Shamus McCahey, explains it better than I can so I thought I’d let him.

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How law enforcement worked when America was founded, and from what I can tell was a very biblical way to handle things, is that private citizens took each other to court. There was no such thing as the state vs. Smith. It was Jones vs. Smith, and if Smith was found to have harmed Jones, he would have to pay Jones back.

For sure what we don’t need is a standing army of police to steal from us to protect us from thieves.

Abolish The Police, Police Abuse, Power Trip

Cops Who Don’t Know The Law

I’ve talked about cops who don’t know the law many times, and I have personal experience with cops who don’t know the law. I’m sure they know the laws that generate revenue like the back of their hand, but as far as the laws that prevent them (government agents with guns) from interfering, they are blissfully ignorant. What they lack in knowledge, they make up for in bluster.

I’m sure bluster works 99% of the time, mostly because people don’t know the law or their rights. and partially because cops act like Kim Jong Un, constantly teetering on the edge of insanity, anxious to unload their handgun on anyone who would question their authority and run back and get the arsenal out of the trunk of their cruiser to finish off any victims.

Our job, therefore, is to know the law, and teach it to our kids.

Here’s a good example of crazy, ignorant cops: