The road from high-trust to low-trust societies follows a predictable path.
One of the first steps is the entities that have been entrusted with keeping order, refusing to do so or being selective about what order they keep.
Anarchotyranny is the result.
The classic example is a homeowner who has suffered through repeated thefts and burglaries and receiving no justice who decides enough is enough and administers some on their own.
The people who are supposed to be investigating the crimes that led to this, enforcing the law and meting out punishment... Come down hard on the homeowner.
The homeowner did, assuredly, break the law; but the motives matter.
What was the government doing to keep them from losing their property?
Had they arrested anyone?
Had they secured a conviction?
Did they even bother to actually investigate past taking a vague description or logging the video of the crime?
The government and police have failed in their duties and since they are given powers delegated from The People, it is the right of The People to reclaim those powers from the government and police.
But there's a simple solution: Just make it legal to shoot burglars and thieves in the act of stealing AND/OR running from the scene of the crime.
Fuck 'em.
Because if the cops don't start arresting people and the district attorney doesn't start getting convictions: People are going to start killing criminals on their own and will shortly thereafter start shooting the police who try to stop them.
It's a place we, as a society, do not want to be; but the first step back from the brink is the hardest and it's on Leviathan to make it.
The two times Committees of Vigilance (from which we get the term "vigilantes") sprung up in San Francisco were times when the forces of "law-and-order", so-called, were either massively not doing their jobs, or actively in bed with the bad guys. Out in the Old West, vigilantism existed because law enforcement was very thin on the ground and often compromised by being too close with the people they were supposed to be arresting.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever read about the Tony Martin case in England? Almost exactly what you're describing.
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ReplyDeleteI have commented that with the really soft on crime judges we have seen releasing the career violent criminal to repeatedly pray on society destroying lives in the name of "equity" or some other drivel will cause a violent backlash. People let the "State" handle the justice as part of the compact between the governing and the governed, but if the governing continually fails the governed, the people will take that power back and it will get messy especially when the authorities after ignoring the career perps, instead go after the lawful citizens. England has that problem right now with the muzzies and the English subjects and it will get ugly once they get past all the government propaganda and realized that they were duped the rage that will be manifested, but it may be too late, there are too many muzzies over there, I fear England is toast.
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