Every conversation is a theological conversation. Every idea is a religious idea.

Bojidar Marinov says:

In law-enforcement schools, they teach them that everyone is their enemy, whether violent or non-violent. The techniques of subduing are such as to always produce such excruciating pain that the victim instinctively resists the pain, and thus give them the cops the excuse of “resisting arrest.” Police culture is a barbaric, pagan culture; it is entirely based on worship of power and pleasure in inflicting pain. It is really the culture of the Beast, for it produces beastliness in the cops that could be rivaled only by the beastliness of the Roman emperors. Police brutality is not an isolated occurrence, it is a self-conscious religious statement, an expression of modern paganism.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS2TVjbdZWM

The notion that cops protect our rights is preposterous. Their job is to get people to talk to them (get them to voluntarily surrender their 5th Amendment right) without asking for an attorney (get them to voluntarily surrender their 6th Amendment right), and let them search their property without a warrant (get them to voluntarily surrender their 4th Amendment right). Lying is an acceptable way for them to get people to surrender their rights.

The police collect taxes (steal from people) to protect people from thieves. They attack people to collect taxes, fines and enforce unjust laws. Yet their PR message is that they protect our rights. I’ve had way more money stolen from me by cops on behalf of cities, counties, states and federal governments than all the thieves put together. They’re not protecting anyone’s rights but their own.

These cops have no basis in rationality or humility. They are thugs with guns who do what they want. Just imagine how much of these people’s time this is going to waste.

Do you know what’s worse than the cops? When these guys have clearly taken pains to obey the law, and cop-worshiping observers come along and say they need to obey the cops. They’re already obeying the law–it’s the cops who need to obey the law.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdLWfMmKDzU

I’m sure the drug gang the blue gang is after are no good. Just like the mob who distributed alcohol during prohibition, these drug gangs are violent. I’m as opposed to drug use as anyone, but the clear solution to drug violence is to legalize drugs. That is the biblical solution, by the way–God determines justice–not man. But if you did that, many members of the blue gang would have to be laid off.

Also, no matter how bad we think someone might be, they are human beings created in God’s image. They’re not animals. They have the right to a speedy trial, the right to remain silent, the right to an attorney, the right to be presumed innocent. The most important job of police is to protect people’s rights–including people we suspect of being scoundrels–especially those we suspect are scoundrels. But that’s just a joke to the blue gang.

Biblically speaking, the cops (government tax collectors) would be held to the same standard as everyone else. They wouldn’t get to go around pointing guns at people. Everyone who points a gun at someone is fair game to be shot themselves.

The whole system of government we have is so messed up that it can’t be fixed. It has to be expunged and we have to start over.

I don’t normally get into psychology, but this is pretty interesting. Here are highlights of the documentary to think about.

1. The other guards could have stopped the bad guards, but didn’t. This corresponds to modern day police. When one cop starts abusing someone, the others join in, or at the very least don’t do anything to stop the abuse.
2. The other prisoners let the prisoners who stand up against the abusers stand alone. A good example of this is when someone doesn’t pay the IRS, and stands trial before a jury of their peers (who you would think would also like to not pay their taxes). They are found guilty an overwhelming majority of the time. Rather than root for the guy who is willing to be one of the first people to put their neck out for liberty and justice, people send him to prison.
3. Authority corrupts people. As they said in the documentary, the prison guards were normal people, who when given authority went nuts.

It’s crazy to think that these guinea pigs completely bought into their roles in what they knew was an experiment. The sad truth is that our system is no more valid than the nuts in the Stanford basement. There is no moral foundation for our system of government other than might makes right.

You give a guy a costume, a badge and a gun, tell him he’s a cop and he’s willing to go out and destroy fellow human beings for selling untaxed cigarettes (e.g. Eric Garner). The badge is a piece of tin, with no authority or validity other than his willingness to commit violence.

A guy on Facebook posted this:

The position he takes is that he’s protecting our rights. That is one of the public relations talking points of government, but it doesn’t really work. If they’re really concerned about our rights, why do they force us to pay them? Why do they violate my right to private property in order to protect my rights?

The whole system is fundamentally flawed. They’ve built this enormous edifice of government and law enforcement on weak and shifting, self-contradictory sand (to borrow an analogy from Christ).

I’d much rather they didn’t exist, and I’ll protect my God-given rights myself, or by paying someone voluntarily, if it becomes necessary. It makes no sense that the government coerces me to protect me from coercion. They need to find a new way. Might I suggest the biblical way? Anything else will lead to these self-contradictions.

It’s hard to respect the heart of those who rob me blind so they can pretend to be my defender.

It happens occasionally…local law enforcement stands up to the federal government. In this case, Elkhart County, Indiana sheriff stood up to the FDA for harassing a farmer selling raw milk. A letter threatening to arrest them for trespassing and telling them that he needs to be informed of any further action they take beforehand was all it took to get the feds off the farmer’s back for good. That was four years ago.

All it took was a letter from the sheriff and the feds have left the farmer alone.

Because it’s so simple, so good, so right and so easy. The story has received new attention, because the sheriff was asked about it and wrote about it for the local newspaper.

It’s not like he did something so spectacular, daring and bold. He wrote a letter and they backed off. Why can’t sheriffs across the country write a letter? How many injustices do the feds commit? And all it would take is a letter from a lesser magistrate.

This is what we need, and it’s exactly what is not happening. This is why the local cops are just as bad and tyrannical as Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Obama. They do what they’re told almost always, whether it’s right or wrong, as if they have no idea what right or wrong is.

If this kind of thing happened regularly and often, (because it needs to happen often), if this type of story was old hat, we could take this country back. But until then…