What it Means to be a Law Enforcer . . .

Guest Post by Eric Peters

It is no accident that police have become more brutal – in appearance as well as action – since they became law enforcement.

The term itself is a brutal syllogism. The law exists and must be enforced because it is the law. I am just doing my job, only following (lawful) orders. People were hanged for using such reasoning to justify the enforcement of vicious, evil laws and went to the gallows baffled as to why.

Victor’s justice, they called it. And perhaps they were right, if a bit prematurely.

Today’s defendants – well, one hopes that they will be that, one day – are just as guilty in kind if not degree.

They enforce the laws. All of them. They do not question the rightness of any of them. The law is the law.

It ought to raise hairs on the back of any thinking person’s neck.

Law enforcement countenances anything, provided the law says so. It is what has made it possible for law enforcers to seize people’s property without charge or due process of any sort – because the law (civil asset forfeiture) gives them the power to do it. Some do it perfunctorily – the banality of evil Hannah Arendt wrote about. Others do it zealously – this includes the rabid little man who is the chief law enforcement officer of the state, Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

It is what enables “good Americans” (the same as “good Germans”) to stand in the middle of the road, halting every car at gunpoint (implied, even if not actually drawn; see what happens if you do not stop) and demanding “papers” be presented.

Without feeling ashamed of themselves.

Because the law says it is “reasonable” to do this. (If so, then it is not-rape to briefly penetrate an unwilling victim – which action by the way law enforcers also perform under color of the law but call it “looking for contraband” rather than rape.)

These same law enforcers will just as nihilistically enforce worse laws not yet passed but ominously threatened, such as laws forbidding the possession of “assault” weapons – or weapons, period.

Such laws in fact are already in force in several states (e.g., Connecticut, Maryland and New Jersey) and have in fact already been enforced. People have been caged as if they were violent criminals not for any violent or criminal action on their part but only because they had the misfortune to fall into the hands of violent criminals who happen to operate under the color of the law.

This includes innocent victims who abided by the concealed weapons laws applicable in their home state, who were driving through another state with different laws and were pulled over for some other non-crime such as “speeding” or “not buckling up for saaaaaaafety” by violent criminals acting under color of law, and foolishly told the violent criminals they were confronted with that they were carrying a legal  (in their state) firearm in the trunk  . . . and very quickly found themselves first in cuffs and then in jail.

Does anyone doubt these same law enforcers will hesitate when it comes to enforcing laws even more despicable?

How about house-by-house confiscation? Do you doubt it? If yes, you should perhaps reconsider. They will, after all, simply be enforcing the law and just doing their job. The same moral indifference which enables them to do the things to people they currently do to people will make it just as easy – as indifferent – to do more to them.

So long as it is the law.

How about the enforcement of the loathsome “shared responsibility” payment – i.e., the federal tax penalty imposed on people for failing to abide by terms of Obamacare, who did not send the insurance mafia thousands of dollars for “coverage” they may not desire or need or be able to afford?

It is, after all, the law.

At the moment, the enforcement of this particular law is held in abeyance because the federal law enforcers lack the power to enforce it; they can only send threatening letters – and add interest charges to the principal “owed,” which remains exactly that, as far as the federal law enforcers are concerned.

They are biding their time.

The day will probably come when they acquire the power to enforce that law. They will seize money held in bank accounts, or garnish wages – or place lies on property; possibly even seizing it to pay he “debt” supposedly “owed” but which is nothing more than theft and extortion called by other things to powder over their moral loathsomeness.

Why would they not do so?

They already do exactly the same things to people who have not submitted to other forms of extortion under color of the law. The obvious example being the annual extortion “homeowners” supposedly “owe” on homes long ago paid-for, or so they thought. In fact, they are never paid-for and so never owned, on account of forever “owing” whatever monies those passing laws decree – to be collected by force by law enforcers, if the duress of the threat of force is insufficient inducement.

So, the first thing that needs to change – if there is to be change in the right direction – is the terminology.

Law enforcement as a concept must be disposed of in the same manner one disposes of other toxic things. The idea that one can “reform” such a concept is tantamount to rattlesnake training or trying to mow grass with scissors.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Maybe we should be looking more at the laws and number of them our legislators have put on the books than the ones charged with enforcing them.

Get rid of unjust laws -> get rid of unjust enforcement.

James
James

Anon,I believe many have lists of those who create/help enforce and abuse the laws.

This country as a whole seems walking on a razors edge,house to house nonsense/pulling a Cyprus/Greece on the bank accounts nationwide(excepting the elites of course)will have many ugly consequences.

Study the past,do what you can to avoid such actions in the future.

joe schmoe
joe schmoe

Short rope and high tree for EVERY legislator who signed that bill into law. Same for Jack Ryan and his thugs that enforce it!
This will only stop when the perpetrators realize it is more dangerous to enact and enforce this tyrannical/UNCONSTITUTIONAL crap than not to.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

In my experience as an attorney and otherwise, most LEOs outside the big city overlook minor violations, “station adjust” minor teenage shenanigans, and generally behave in a reasonable manner…In Tucson, and the Chicago suburbs, I have seen this done consistently….The problem has been over zealous and even vindictive prosecutors. But there is a minority, whom I have also encountered, who have “anger management” problems. They are a danger to everyone, and should not be permitted to have any kind of badge.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

I’d like to hear more about this legal quickie-rape concept.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

“They will seize money held in bank accounts”
one minor point, there is very little actual money being held. Most is just electronic.

James
James

Just a bunch of 1’s and 0’s,not in your hand/control,you do not own it.

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Here’s evidence: the old bank building is built like a fortress because there were physical assets inside to protect. The modern bank building resembles a convenience store because they only keep enough cash to transact business.

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Same thing for your stocks and mutual funds. You do not have a clear title to them and they are only in “street name” for easy transactions. I discovered that Vanguard could freeze your MM mutual funds based on what they deem an emergency and was required by law to deposit mutual funds purchased by me into a custodial account with some large financial institutions such as Chase. So here you have assets that you have little control of with no clear title deposited into a criminal organization further controlled by the SEC and Dodd Frank in the event of another financial crisis. What could go wrong?

MarshRabbit
MarshRabbit

Hey Boatman! This is your cue. lol

Anonymous
Anonymous

Just because some stupid ancestors of mine ‘agreed’ that ‘property tax’ was a good idea, why do I have to it too? I never voted for this, agreed to it, or consented in any fashion.

Anonymous
Anonymous

There would be a lot of details to work out but here is an idea I’ve developed … the ‘state’ is allowed x number of laws … say 20 (no kidding, just a a few). No more. If the state wants a new law it must also get rid of an existing one.

In this way ‘the state’ has to actually decide and weigh what is important enough for its involvement and what is not.

Obviously, ‘limitations’ must also be present such that the state can’t pass a new law saying that they now can have 100, 10000, etc. laws.

I think you get the idea.

Smoke Jensen
Smoke Jensen

God only need ten. Why so generous?

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Please give this subject a rest folks.

These police state shitshows may be a precursor to something worse, but they amount to little more than ‘peacetime charades’.

If America ever goes full Venezuela, cops and .gov creeps stand NO CHANCE against millions of highly-armed Americans who take to the rooftops. They either join the resistance, melt away, or put on fake moustaches and flee for Argentina. If you do not know this, you probably have never “worked” a day in the government or served in enforcement agencies or military (armed government).

You wanna know where some real freedom exists at this moment in time? Eastern Ukraine. Where white-faced folks still volunteer to die fighting the Obama-Clinton-now-Trump War Machine based in Kiev.

Anonymous
Anonymous

You make a good point there. Take the ex-cop Christopher Dorner incident in LA in 2013. It appeared to me that this one individual basically paralyzed and terrorized the LA police force for a few days until they finally burned him out in a cabin in the mountains. Before they got him the cops were so frightened and on edge that they mistook the sound of a bundle of newspapers being tossed from a truck for a gunshot. 8 cops opened up and fired over 100 rounds into the truck, 7 homes and 9 other vehicles. The perps were two Mexican ladies driving slowly down the street with their light and flashers on delivering newspapers. I wonder how they would react if there was a serious threat.

IluvCO2
IluvCO2

Hope so, but I don’t know about that. GPS and remote controlled drones with big ass charges may change that dynamic. Unless of course we start with our own drone army. Dive for cover outside your domicile when you hear the whistling getting closer boys, then take aim with the shotgun.

wholy1
wholy1

So, what about the SELECTIVE “law” enforcement by the “semi-functional/literate thug’s bosses: the gov-agent BARfly PERsecutors operating out of the CRIMINAL cabal DOJ/FBI?

Stucky

Eric Peters’ article would be better if he used the word “copfuks”.

Anonymous
Anonymous
Boat Guy
Boat Guy

With all the examples of the pathetic individuals that somehow end up as a badge wearing gun toting individuals with what should amount to a thimble full of authority when encountering a citizen somehow has been amplified to a government financed and encouraged Tsunami crushing all who even question the minions actions a serious nationwide reigning in of law enforcement is desperately needed .
As for our illustrious Attorny General Jeff Sessions , he lost all respect when he actually smerked with a schoolboy giggle regarding asset forfiture without due process as a good tool for law enforcement . He apparently is unaware of what type of people are wearing a badge these days , like the Baltimore City cop just sentenced to 16 years in prison for his heroic efforts fleecing and harassing the citizens of Baltimore .
As for property tax , no doubt it’s government theft considering if you refuse to pay your property can and will be confiscated . The claim in most states is the property tax is for public schools , OK , what if you never used the schools and considering the pathetic performance of most public schools are we not actually due a refund . We paid for a job the system either had dismal success or total failure . For those using the public schools , get out your wallet but leave mine alone .

BB

At the age of 57 all I want is a peaceful end to my life BUT if they ever start trying to go door to door taking guns at gun point then I’ve had made up my mind I will do my best to stop them. My 308 M1A is a good battle rifle that I will use if necessary. I’m also lucky in that I have some good neighbors that are very pro second amendment.

Zarathustra

Hating copfuks is a sign of a healthy and active mind.

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