Category Archives: Power Trip

Fourth Amendment?

Apparently, this cop has never heard of the 4th Amendment, which would require him to have suspicion that a crime has been committed before pulling someone over. I guess in his mind he can make up for such pesky nuisance with bluster and intimidation.

We need to teach our children to stand up to these people, know their rights, like the guy in the video.

Point Proven

There are all kinds of problems with this video offering an apologetic for police brutality. But using the data cited in the video reveals a whole other issue with the system.

A commenter on the video says:

If officers contact 53,000,000 people per year, and there are 670,000 cops, and let’s say 250 working days per year (52 weeks minus 10 vacation days). There would be 167 million cop days per year. Fifty-three million contacts divided by 167 million cop days means that on average a cop has contact with 0.32 citizens per day. Or the average cop contacts one citizen every 3 days. If we can get cops moving at the breakneck speed of 1 citizen contact per day, we could lay off 2/3 of all cops.

I just saved this country billions of dollars.

A cop-lover, antagonistic to the embarrassing math, pointed out that a lot of cops work 12-hour shifts rather than 8-hour shifts. This would change the math, and the number of contacts per shift change to 0.5 contacts per shift. The rise in contacts per shift is only due to longer shifts. Contacts/hour would remain the same, and the point remains.

Personally, I would like to see police abolished, but the point is that government workers are all terribly inefficient, because they’re paid by money taken by force. The “customers” are forced to pay whether they’re happy with the service or not.

I happened across this video that illustrates the point that so many cops could be laid off with little effect, because the government is so wasteful. Enjoy the proven point in this 1 minute video.

 

Blown Opportunity

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I’m sick of myself today as I missed an opportunity to speak up to a micro-tyrant. Not only that, but it took me weeks to realize how badly I blew it.

On January 4, I went in to the Fremont County motor vehicle department to register a car I bought. That was the first work day after New Year’s Day weekend, and the deadline for registering the car. I would have incurred a late fee had I not registered the car that day.

Fremont County offices are closed on Friday. They started doing  that a few years ago to save money. Since Friday was January 1, they decided to close on Thursday December 31 for New Year’s Day. The end of the month is a deadline for registrations to be renewed.

The guy sitting at the desk next to mine was going to be charged a non-nominal (though I don’t remember how much, maybe $20) late fee for having missed his December deadline. He explained that he had come on Thursday, and their offices were closed. He complained to the clerk, and she called over a higher-up to explain.

The higher-up said she had to charge a late fee to several people in his situation that day, and told them to take it up with the county commissioners for having declared December 31st a day off.

Here’s what I should have said:

Hey man, she’s just doing her job. Just like the Nazis who shoved the Jews into the ovens were just doing their job. She checks her conscience at the door every day and thinks that having a government job entitles her to rob people.

Ma’am, you can’t push the blame for your willingness to steal off on the county commissioners. Your job consists of forcing people to run the bureaucratic gauntlet of an evil, antichrist government. You produce nothing of value. You will stand before the Lord and give an account some day for every penny you’ve stolen.

None of the theft this government commits is possible without regular people like you making it happen. The Nazi guards didn’t get away with killing Jews by blaming their superiors. Neither will you get away with stealing by blaming your superiors. So at least be honest and say that YOU are enforcing these wicked rules and evil registration fees. You can’t blame anyone but yourself, and it’s not happening without you or someone like you.

If the commissioners had chosen to take Monday off rather than Thursday, I would have been in that guy’s position. We need to stand up for each other, and speak up for each other. There is no other weapon we have at this point other than to boldly speak the truth. Lord, give me the words to say and the courage to say them. Help me to not be so self-absorbed as to not think of others when they’re facing injustice.

Black Panthers Super Bowl Halftime Show

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Super Bowl halftime show that was worth speaking of. It’s not really my kind of thing. The show from about 10 days ago was no exception to that. I generally don’t even watch it. Apparently, it was supportive of black lives matter movement and black panthers.

Of course, conservative cop-worshipers are up in arms over the NFL allowing the glorification of those who don’t lick the boots of police. Here’s what Bojidar Marinov had to say:

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Cops in this country murder more people a week than the Black Panthers for their whole period of existence. Besides, the Black Panthers are at least pro-2nd Amendment. The majority of cops in this country are against the Second Amendment. While I dislike the Black Panthers, they are harmless compared to police.
Thus, in this artificial conflict, I see a greater and more brutal gang against a smaller and harmless gang. I can’t in good conscience support the more murderous gang.

Retarded Cops

These cops actually think it’s against the law to offend someone. Do you realize that this cop can accuse someone of offending people, and then, he can search them, arrest them and abuse them in all sorts of ways. In fact, I’ve shown on this blog how Tony Miano (who claims to be familiar with the Bible) believes that a false accusation from a cop entitles them to inflict all sorts of abuse on citizens, and that Christians ought to submit to such abuse.

Miraculously, these three retarded cops have a chief that’s not also a brain-dead, morally-twisted idiot. The chief rescinded the ticket. But there is certainly no guarantee that the higher-up cops and the district attorney will side with the law and the truth.

Hopefully these cops will be fired for being so completely ignorant of basic law, and be sued for every paycheck they’ve ever cashed for having fraudulently received wages as a law enforcement officer, when in fact, they have zero knowledge of the law.

Then, towards the end of the video, the cop asks the guy to sign the ticket, but says that he doesn’t necessarily have to sign. They clearly have some leeway in what they do if someone doesn’t sign. But, the power-tripping lady cop steps in and wants the citizen to be fully subjugated so she threatens to arrest him if he doesn’t sign.

There are psychological studies that show that being able to threaten violence and control people starts to change both the abusers and the victims. The only thing that gives cops and our entire system (including bureaucrats, judges and politicians) any authority is the constant threat of violence. All the papers that politicians and judges push around are a thin veil hiding the gun that forces people to follow their arbitrary dictates. I wonder how the constant injustice and threats of violence we face affect our whole society.

Street preachers running into completely ignorant cops is not a rare occurrence. I have much different theology than the guys in the video, and disavow their shock-and-awe style, but even in my tame, friendly and much less frequent free speech activity I’ve run into cops on two occasions that were shockingly ignorant, and said much the same thing that these cops said. I was accused of offending someone and if my “victim” had decided to press charges, I would have been arrested for disorderly conduct. The cop that was going to arrest me was a veteran cop in his 50s, who had been in the same department for decades. I was shocked, and maybe that night the seed was planted that has led me to see that police are unconstitutional and unbiblical.

Striving for Consistency

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Wisdom from Bojidar Marinov:

Cops are liberal democrats. Their unions donate to the Democrat Party 100%. Cops who commit crimes are usually defended in court by Democrat lawyers. (Darren Wilson’s fund-raising campaign was organized by a Democrat politician who describes himself as a Socialist.) The origin of professional police is liberal democrat: The first professional police was established by the corrupt Democrat Tammany Hall in NYC in the 1840s. (The first professional police in Europe was established by the Jacobins in the French Revolution.) Before that, America had no professional police, and the Founding Fathers envisioned no professional police. As late as 1910, conservatives and church ministers preached against professional police, for citizens’ militia.

So we do have a cop problem in America. It’s part of the liberal democrat problem. Professional police is one of the tools of liberal democrats for subjugating the population, whether black or white. It’s their tax collector force.

If you are against liberal democrats, you should be against police. If you are against one, for the other, you are inconsistent. Inconsistency always loses the cultural war. I have seen it in Eastern Europe. You won’t be an exception.

Lavoy Finicum Was Murdered

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“Under the Law of God, the guilt is always on those who had drawn first. They are the murderers. In that context, even if he tried to draw, it was legitimate self-defense.

These government thugs must be taken to court and then duly executed. Until they are executed – every single one of them – there will be no justice in this case.

But the blame is on the local cops. It is the local Sheriff who must be re-called, tried, and executed for conspiracy and treason against his constituency.”–Bojidar Marinov

I like what Gavin Seim said, and I share his optimism that someday there will be buildings and roads named after Lavoy Finicum for having laid down his life for his friends. Which is more than you can say for the coward cops who murder people when they see their shadow.