The Mindset of Heroes

Guest Post by Eric Peters

This video was taken by a couple of guys filming outside a federal courthouse in Houston, TX:

It’s interesting chiefly because it reveals (again) the arrogance of these armed government workers (cops, “agents,” etc.) who see themselves as a kind of Praetorian Guard, above the law and entitled to bully and abuse people even when their victims have not broken any law.

The fat older Hero with the goatee physically assaults one of the men – who was within his rights to walk on public property and to video buildings and so on. Another Hero threatens to stomp one of the men’s head into the ground.hero worship

They are furious because the men have affronted their authority.

Note, not violated the law.

They were abused for not immediately deferring to the personal wishes of armed government goons.

This is by no means an uncommon occurrence.

Armed government workers routinely (and forcibly) detain people without having legal grounds (probable cause to suspect a crime has been committed or is about to be committed) and – contrary to law – demand identification such as driver’s licenses when people are under no legal obligation to provide ID or even speak with the Hero.

When they do not provide ID or answer the Hero’s questions, the Hero invariable becomes huffy – and often aggressively violent, as in the video above.

The Sandra Bland Incident is another (much worse) example.

She was pulled over for a trivial traffic violation and – when ordered by the Hero who pulled her over to stop smoking a cigarette in her own private automobile – was violently pulled out of her car and brutally assaulted by a “man” twice her size. Bland later died in custody under very dubious circumstances.

If you doubt we live in a police state, ask yourself why Heroes such as these are not arrested for clear (on video, incontrovertible evidence) abuse of their authority and charged with crimes, as we surely would be if we were to commit exactly the same act.

What would happen, for example, if you or I threatened to “stomp” the head of a Hero? Pushed a Hero? Demanded that a Hero out out his cigarette and then used force against him when he declined to obey?

Why is is acceptable for Heroes to do the same to us?

Why is there no accountability, no repercussions?

Note that in the first video (Houston federal courthouse) other Heroes – cops on bicycles – show up and do not arrest the federal Heroes who abused the two men, including a physical assault. If either of the two men in the video had so much as touched any of the Heroes on scene, we all know what would have happened next. They would have been violently thrown to the pavement and arrested for committing an assault upon a Hero.

It’s said that a frog being slowly boiled will notice the danger until it’s too late and he is already cooked. But people are not frogs – and they are beginning to notice the water’s getting warm. Note, for example, the citizen who steps in to lend his moral support to the two men being hassled by the Heroes.

This made the Heroes edgy.

Good.

This is exactly what needs to happen.

When Heroes attack, it is time for the rest of us to stand up. To stand by our fellow citizens and human beings when they are abused. Film the Heroes. It infuriates them – precisely because they know, in their porcine brains, how damaging it is to their carefully confected aura as “Heroes,” to show them in living color, for everyone to see, as what they actually are.

They’re not even law enforcers – their own favorite term.

Because they routinely ignore the law – and make up their own law on the spot.

If they at least knew – and obeyed – the law, one could respect that.

But they are just thugs.

Angry men (and women) who crave deference to their personal authority and who abuse the authority they possess. Take away the outfit and the badge and what you are left with is a real-life version of Biff – the bully from Back to the Future.

As approach the Fourth of July – the annual celebration of our “freedoms” – it is perhaps time to reflect on the freedoms we have lost. Including, most of all, the freedom to be left in peace when we ourselves are peaceful and have broken no law nor caused anyone any harm.

We will not be truly free again until we are free to walk the streets unmolested, without being accosted by belligerent, ID-demanding government goons. Free to get in our cars and drive without fear of being stopped for no particular reason and forced to endure a roadside Q&A and inspection of ourselves and our property.

Wavings flags and imagining ourselves to be free does not mean we are free.

We’ll be free again when the government leaves us in peace.

Until that happens, I won’t be lighting off any fireworks, much less pretending I live in a “free” country.


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Ed
Ed

A lady with the gas company asked me on the phone yesterday if I had big plans for the 4th. I told her that I don’t celebrate what I don’t have anymore.

bb

Ed ,have I told you lately you’re an idiot ?

Stucky

Pot accuses kettle.

hahaha

Full Retard
Full Retard

Stuck, Ed is not an idiot. I never see him at the meetings

Rdawg
Rdawg

bb: What the fuck is wrong with you; do you need to get laid or something?

wip
wip

bb

What the fuck is wrong with you? Ed is right. My wife and I are in a bit of a fight. I told her I do not celebrate the 4th either. She doesn’t get it.

Ed
Ed

Yes, you have, babyboy. Have I told you lately that one of my thoughts would bust your head wide open? Of course I have.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Since arrest and prosecution is virtually impossible then lawsuits against the individuals for abuse of authority under color of law (with injury in many cases) are the only option for redress of grievance possible.

It can be successfully done, and has been, but for some reason no one ever seems to want to go this route, Maybe because of the costs involved if there is no legal rights organization behind you and you have to bear the cost yourself.

Llpoh
Llpoh

The guy filming was breaking the law. Laws are the basis of a civilized society. He needs to be severely punished, 10 years in prison at a minimum.

Tim
Tim

What law was he breaking?

kokoda
kokoda

Can’t believe you asked that – too funny.

BUCKHED
BUCKHED

Tim…LLPOH was being sarcastic .

I watched a news story a while back of an old guy in a small town that had the local gooberment by the balls. He was a self taught lawyer . He sued the crap out of many of them numerous times,representing himself and won each time. When he said boo the city gooberment they pissed themselves . We have a gentleman like that here in S.C. his name is Ed Sloan Jr. . He’s sued the state around 20 or 30 times when the state didn’t follow their own laws . He won every time . He only sought payment of his legal fees…nothing else .The lawmakers listen when Ed Sloan Jr. speaks .

As I’ve said here many times I’ve never had trouble with the law . I don’t expect to have any trouble in the future . However, as I’ve said before,If I’m ever assaulted by gooberment official for no other reason than questioning their authority,I’ll let teh courts handle it. If I don’t get satisfaction then I’ll do as John Cussack did in the movie “The Jack Bull” and get justice my own way .

Tim
Tim

@ llpoh:

Sorry, I missed the sarcasm.

‘doh!

Unedited
Unedited

After an approximate 200 year respite for mankind, it is becoming obvious as to where this is leading once again.

Behold the Federal drone from the post-industrial future:

David
David

Gotta love the repeated idiot naming from a guy with a sub 100 IQ doing a job a monkey can do.

And while 6 or so guys abandon the entrance to confront two guys, 10 terrorists could have walked right in.

Full Retard
Full Retard

Stuck, I can’t post vids anymore, oh well. Anyway I had translated Gloria Trevi’s version of “I Will Survive” before, this video has the English lyrics. You might think it’s a little gay but it’s cool. Her point is, when you’ve had enough, authority loses power. That actually happened in Juarez, the cops lost the public’s respect and they feared getting fragged in their cop cars. (Which is why the government sent in the military to restore order) We haven’t seen that here. Yet.

Ed
Ed

Here, El:

Boat Guy

The problem pointed out here persists at most law enforcement levels . The term hero is for people who perform selfless acts to protect or defend others not most badge wearing bombastic half asses pumped up on some agenda driven bull shit . I would attempt to explain why their behavior would at one time ultimately land them in a cell at Nuremberg or perhaps dangling from a rope . Time will tell however I would wager a tidy sum that all the officers involved will say ” Just Doing My Job” . As our society circles the drain those dependent on it will become more desperate this desperation will not just be seen by welfare reciepients but also government paycheck reciepients because their income streams are going to shit just the way our American industrial tax base went !

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