Crime Is Crime

Guest post by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic

You can fool most of the people most of the time, but you can’t fool reality any of the time.

The reigning chaos reflects perfectly what passes for thought in millions of minds. Minds that have been taught that reality is whatever one believes it to be. That reason is a superstition and is inferior to random feelings and emotions. That observation, hypotheses, experimentation, discovery, and science itself are akin to voodoo rituals. That consumption precedes production and is morally superior to it. That anyone’s work, income and wealth are subject to anyone else’s proclaimed need. That actions have no consequences.

Rioters and looters are faithfully adhering to the distilled essence of what our rulers and intellectuals have been telling them for decades: If you need it, or just want it, it’s yours to have or destroy. They are simply eliminating the government middleman. The only surprise is that it didn’t happen long ago.

The Age of Chaos has arrived. Violence is accomplishing what violence always accomplishes—destruction, ruin, and death. The only theoretical justification for government is that it employs force to protect its citizens from violence—invasion, violence against persons or property, and the indirect violence implicit in procuring and keeping value through fraud or extortion.

Modern governments don’t protect their citizens from violence, they subject them to it and are its chief instigator. The latest outrage is coronavirus totalitarianism. It is nauseatingly hypocritical for politicians to ritually and halfheartedly denounce looting and destruction after they’ve spent the last three months destroying millions of businesses and jobs.

There are other killers lurking out there: crime and mass unrest. The statistics for the former and the probability of the latter will only increase with the duration of lockdowns. Police are already reporting an uptick in crime. The death toll from a week of widespread urban rioting could easily surpass that of the entire coronavirus outbreak. There’s no mystery why President Trump has called up a million military reservists, and no assurance they will be able to prevent sporadic riots from deteriorating into total chaos and pandemonium. No mystery, either, why sales of firearms and ammo have jumped. By the way, rioters and looters don’t always social distance, so they may spread the coronavirus.

SLL, “Surrendered Without A Shot,” April 6, 2020

Let’s reach a conclusion that lockdown proponents will reflexively deny: the lockdowns have made the rioting worse. It’s not implausible to suggest that people stuck in their houses for three months might have joined in simply because they were going stir crazy…or were desperate and angry because they lost their jobs and can’t pay their bills.

Government now does everything except the one thing it’s supposed to do—protect the citizenry from violence. Some of the government officials who tossed people into jail for letting their kids play in parks or opening a barbershop are now assuring rioters and looters they feel their pain and are doing little to stop them. It’s the perfect inversion: persecute the innocent, succor the criminals.

Politics is an exercise in criminal demagoguery, the promise of something for nothing in exchange for votes and power. That something has to be stolen from someone by the government. Governments don’t protect against the criminal element because they are the criminal element. Theft, extortion, and fraud can’t produce wealth. They only redistribute and ultimately reduce or eliminate it by destroying the rights of those who produce it.

Rioters have screamed, “Eat the Rich!” and have looted high end stores as an appetizer. To the extent that they’ve announced a program, this appears to be it: install a government that will eat the rich, and by implication anyone who produces wealth. Left open is the question: after they eat the rich and productive, where does their next meal come from?

The present government is already devouring producers and its debt is extortion, theft, and fraud all rolled into one. The full faith and credit of the United States is the full faith and credit of its present and future producers, whose production is and will continue to be extorted and stolen under threats of fines and imprisonment. Creditors are holding debt the value of which the government will do everything to fraudulently undermine via debt monetization, inflation, and currency depreciation.

You can fool most of the people most of the time, but you can’t fool reality any of the time. Reality never grants something for nothing, not even on credit. To get something out, you have to put something in.

The utterly incompetent and incoherent response by government officials to the nationwide rioting, in both word and deed, was inevitable. They can neither speak nor act with intellectual, philosophical, or moral clarity given the dominant political creed—that reality can be subverted, something can be had for nothing, and the rights of some are justifiably destroyed for the benefit of others. That creed obliterates the concept of individual rights and the principles that logically flow from that concept. Yet, only the intellectual vantage point afforded by that concept and its concomitant principles offers clarity.

A policeman in Minneapolis knelt on an already-subdued and handcuffed suspect’s neck for approximately eight minutes and the suspect died shortly thereafter. Three other police did nothing to either stop the policeman or aid the suspect. Based on the video evidence, which will probably not be the complete evidentiary record, the kneeling policeman should be charged with murder and the three other police should be charged as accomplices. All four should have the legal protections afforded all criminal defendants and receive a fair trial before either a judge or a jury. Verdicts would then be reached and any defendant who was found guilty, punished.

Anyone enraged by the police’s behavior, or by the way police treat people or specific groups of people, or any other conduct by the government or its agents has the right to peaceably protest and take other political action, either as an individual or as a member of a group. The key word is peaceably. Nobody has the right to initiate violence against anyone else or their property. The government’s duty is to protect its citizens from such violence and destruction. When it erupts en masse, as in a riot, the government must stop it, with force if necessary, up to and including deadly force. The motivations or justifications of those engaging in the violence and destruction are irrelevant.

Every year governments steal trillions of dollars from their productive citizens. Some of it remains with governments or their agents, some of it is bestowed as unearned largess to the politically favored. Foreign and military policy has degenerated into nonstop war whose only purpose is to feed the military-industrial-intelligence complex and enrich it’s contractors. People can be tossed in jail if they refuse to accept as legal tender a fiat-debt currency backed by nothing, one which the government’s central bank continuously debases, in part to reduce the real value of the government’s debt.

Industry after industry has been turned into government-sponsored predatory cartels, with the military-intelligence-industrial complex and the financial-banking complex at the head of the pack and the medical-pharmaceutical-insurance complex coming on strong. Regulation is an instrument of government extortion and a means for the cartels to exclude potential competition by making entry into cartelized industries prohibitively expensive. No industry is so inconsequential that it can escape regulation; the government has its arbitrary and grasping fingers in every pie.

Under a contradictory-on-its-face rationale of “equality,” governments have created unequal-by-law quotas, preferences, and set-asides for favored groups. Taking the next giant step towards the eradication of whatever remains of individual rights, governments have locked “unessential” people in their homes and prevented them from opening their businesses or working at their jobs. Virtually every government activity and job has been deemed “essential.” There are no individual rights when inequality is written into the law.

Adding insult to injury, attending schools, gathering in groups, or even breathing clean air have also been prohibited in response to a dramatically and intentionally overblown medical danger. When government destroys rather than protects individual rights, its law enforcement arm inevitably does the same. Enforcement becomes a matter of caprice, whim, and the personal predilections and prejudices of its agents. The multitude of laws give law enforcement virtually unlimited power to harass, arrest, brutalize, incarcerate, and kill. The coronavirus measures only increase that power.

There are so many laws and regulations that no person can possibly be aware of or comply with them all, yet government exempts law enforcement from even the most basic strictures against criminality. Under asset forfeiture laws, it can steal property arbitrarily deemed to be involved in the commission of a crime and it is then up to the owner to prove that it was not. Incidents like the one in Minneapolis are commonplace, but the chances the police who commit crimes will be imprisoned, or even lose their jobs, is minimal. The glaring inequity of a system in which innocent citizens are routinely treated as criminals but government exempts itself from justice has not been lost on the citizenry. It has not been lost on police forces, who have been militarized not to protect themselves and the government from criminals, but from an increasingly subjugated and enraged citizenry.

To believe that a government that has destroyed individual rights while enshrining its own criminality can speak or act with any kind of moral authority towards criminal rioters and looters is absurd. The apex of absurdity—so far—is the Minneapolis police force’s abandonment of its own precinct station to rioters. Criminals will attack soft targets, and those who agree with them in principle are soft targets. If a government won’t protect its own property from criminals, it’s certainly not going to protect law abiding citizens’ lives or property.

The rioting makes a mockery of arguments that the government should control or eliminate citizens’ right and access to firearms, which would make them soft targets. A government that refuses to protect individuals and their rights hasn’t a leg to stand on when it tries to restrict individuals from defending themselves. Such restrictions are clearly seen for what they are: another government destruction of individual rights.

How long can governments that outlaw businesses, jobs, and education—in short, production—and engage in and legitimize theft, fraud, extortion, vandalism, violence, and murder—in short, destruction—survive? Reality cannot be fooled. Production is survival—for both producers and the governments they support—destruction its antithesis. The bell tolls.

WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The Declaration of Independence, 1776

Our government effects only terror and misery. To effect our Safety and Happiness, it’s past time to withdraw “the Consent of the Governed” and “to alter or to abolish” it. That is our right, enshrined in our Declaration.

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BUCKHED
BUCKHED

After reading this “Who Is John Galt” resonates louder with each passing day .

MrLiberty
MrLiberty

“Where is Gault’s Gulch?” is a better question.

Jaz
Jaz

They will be popping up in many red counties and states.

Riding Shotgun
Riding Shotgun

Isn’t that where there is a steady stream of illegal invaders in transit and in search of free stuff?

StackingStock
StackingStock

Robert says: Government now does everything except the one thing it’s supposed to do—protect the citizenry from violence.

No Robert, this isn’t correct. The gov is to preserve our rights and that is all.

StackingStock
StackingStock

Oh look at that, NSA, CIA fucking Faggot doesn’t agree, fuck off cock sucking fucking faggot American fucking losers.

Long, forward and aft scatter guns!!!

Edit: Give back my quarter million stolen loot you Mother fuckers……

Anonymous
Anonymous

Please don’t kick the dog.

Anonymous
Anonymous

Government power should be greatly reduced. Start by ending the CIA & FBI.
Corruption and theft are rampant throughout government bureaucracies.

Anonymous
Anonymous

When I was a kid I often heard older adults say:
If government only defends the borders and keeps a sound dollar the American people are smart enough to take care of themselves.

Anonymous
Anonymous

One rule of law would relieve a great deal of rioting arson and looting !
Looters are shot on sight ! Also law enforcement and national guard have blanket immunity after fair warning has been issued anyone seen looting will be shot !
That would clear a great deal of warts on the ass of American Society !

Anonymous
Anonymous

Lived in Tornado Alley as kid-scared the shit out of me-you know, heavy rain, wind, and constant thunder boomers often until 3am. Supposedly when martial law was declared and the National Guard was called in to a deastated area there was ALWAYS the warning to the public that “Looters WILL be shot”. Implied message to the soldiers was “shoot first and ask questions later”.

How times have changed. Wouldn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings, would we?

Swimologist
Swimologist

And they already have qualified immunity when they make an error while stealing your possessions during “civil asset forfeitures.”

Tr4head
Tr4head

“When the Looting starts the Shooting starts.” DJT.

Craven Warrior
Craven Warrior

Actually, it’s not our right to abolish or alter a tyrannical government, it’s our duty.

Jaz
Jaz

Yes, they are not going to limit or abolish themselves.

Auntie Kriest
Auntie Kriest

In the Newspeak dictionary of the year 2020 Y.S., the entry for “crime”:

Crime: n. A holy sacrament of terrestrial power.
n. Reflection of the highest morality.
n. Lawful activity.

Jaz
Jaz

Universal Laws becoming clearer by the day. Someone said the other day: “truth is not told, truth is learned”.

Fleabaggs
Fleabaggs

Bob.
Excellent critique, again. You have been faithful to expose the absurdities and corruption for a very long time. I remember mining you archives priceless one liners. You will be able to look God in the eye and say I used my one coin well.
Sadly I don’t see any effort to change things. The right seems to have no cause or goal to rally around and no leader to lead. Waiting for the Cavalry is not much of a plan.

Mary Christine
Mary Christine

I have heard that cells are most useful, and I don’t mean phones.
But what do I know?

I guess I’m about to be leanrzed.

Anonymous
Anonymous

learnerized???? Love it!

centinel
centinel

Thoughtful article.

What are otherwise reasonable, circumspect people to do when the other side doesn’t seem interested in working out a solution? Or worse yet, insists that the entire concept of reason is a “tool of oppressors”?

Harrington Richardson
Harrington Richardson

They need to “see the light.” Failing that, you need to show them the muzzle flash.

Ouirphuqd
Ouirphuqd

I myself am an anarchist, George Carlin is my hero! Blood and screaming mothers are about to engulf the narrative of reality. We are stupid to ever believe what government says, carnage always changes people’s opinions!

boron
boron

If a LEO handcuffs and asks me to get in the car, I’m not going to argue (I can do that later with a lawyer at my side), I’m going to follow his directions; it’s a lawful order given lawfully. If I want to argue the point, I should expect whatever the officer hands out.
Whenever my parents or my teachers gave me an order (lawful), I carried it out to the best of my ability; again, I could always argue later.
There is no substitute for good upbringing.

One enchanted evening
One enchanted evening

The same argument. Amazon uses the road the infrastructure and everything else to conduct business. What is their fair share to milk the consumer? A 2B dollar tax credit? Just like in the 30s the oligarchs have gotten greedy and now they will pay. They need another FDR to save capitalism. I truly hope we will string up the right people, but the mob is not bright, so they will just go after middle class white people.

22winmag - TBP's Yankee Mormon DezNat Infiltrator

Video evidence?

I guess that depends on who is supplying the video.

Another angle; https://t.co/fUX6J0m15q?amp=1

“Dey’re putting it togetter as dey go along!”

True dat!

subwo
subwo

I’m surprised that more conjecture has not happened about the killing. If Sirhan Sirhan can be made to fire a pistol at Bobby Kennedy in 1968 with no recollection of it while using a gun carrying the wrong caliber bullets that killed Kennedy what is farfetched with using scopolamine in this day and age on the four officers?

John
John

“That is our right, enshrined in our Declaration.”

And in Article V of the Constitution which empowers the state legislatures to call a Convention of States to propose amendments to the Constitution to be ratified by the states legislatures. Any amendment up to and including the dissolution of the Federal government.

Yahsure
Yahsure

Right and wrong and taking responsibility for your actions is apparently an old fashioned idea that has faded away. I just went shopping and even my kids noticed the rise in prices. I have read about many crop failures and think this will just pile onto the countries’ problems going into the future.

Anonymous
Anonymous

If you ever again go into an AutoZone or a Target hold on to your hat when you see the prices. Another way honest people are getting taxed to death-this time it will be the result of a Riot Tax. The mayhem will be used as a pretext for prices going up, whether or not they be justified. Open season on decent people from every direction-the slime, the government, and the businesses want an even bigger slice of the pie.

niebo
niebo

How long can governments that outlaw businesses, jobs, and education—in short, production—and engage in and legitimize theft, fraud, extortion, vandalism, violence, and murder—in short, destruction—survive?

So long as they can run that printing press, or for as long as it takes to buy all the assets while the subjects and nations of the world accept such worthless “currency”. That is the one issue that I am astounded that people do not “get” – since Nixon ended the “peg” to gold, the banks have no restraint to keep them honest, and it’s ALL counterfeit. They print dollars and buy assets; with what costs them nothing, they have bought the world.

Dunno when it’s gonna break, but when it does, it’s broken. And blood will flow. Nobody – no God-fearing man or woman, anyway – wants that, but I don’t see any way around it.

It’s taken a hundred years of crooked policies and banker-coups to get us here. I think it will take much less time to reset, but, while we may regain our “independence”, I don’t think that there will be any going back; the US officially died in 1913, and is a zombie to this day.

Great article, Robert.

Uncola

An epic piece, Robert. Thank you for putting it out there. It seems you and I are on similar posting cycles. I finished an article last night but decided to wait a day. At 4,500+ words it’s probably too long for most web-surfers, but I dislike cutting what I believe to be important and I, personally, prefer getting it all out there instead of delayed installments. If only because things are happening so fast. In any event, my offering will dovetail nicely with this one. I’m honored to be among such online friends as yourself. Especially now. The bell tolls, indeed.

John Burns
John Burns

Hey Robert,
Come on — tell us how you really feel.
A bit long-winded, but very well said!
I walked around down town Albuquerque this morning. Three blocks of boarded up buildings, missed broken glass fragments everywhere, and 1/1000 of the typical commerce. I was so pissed off that I submitted my first ever letter to the editor of the Albuquerque Journal (a 30 year resident). It’ll probably fall on deaf ears. Perhaps as native New Mexican, with a reputation as an author, you might get your opinion published.

Best regards,
John

Cornfield Chuck
Cornfield Chuck

What little I have experienced in Alby has convinced me I’d most likely hate living there.

Delta Gee
Delta Gee

Well written, deeply thought out and creatively put together. God Help Us for we have sat on our collective asses for too long and I regrettably believe that violence will be essential to get some sense of normal balance before thoughtful discussion can fix this fucking mess. Like it or not, there may need to be a mass deportation of criminals from the US or containment of them in some remote location because I do not believe many of the individuals creating the problems are reasonable adults.

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

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Anonymous
Anonymous

Did you see the Irishman’s post asking if any welfare office in Minneapolis was burned to the ground?

Tr4head
Tr4head

Good article but not sure about this:

“Creditors are holding debt the value of which the government will do everything to fraudulently undermine via debt monetization, inflation, and currency depreciation.”

Governments have and will continue to need low or no inflation in order to finance their amazingly indebted government with 1% 30 yr notes. They despise inflation also because it enriches the rich (aka Globalists) by keeping the insanely priced equities market perched in the stratosphere with near zero interest rates, unless of course their is a nuclear holocaust that destroys the planet and its inhabitants. But then it goes down only 20% after QE 47 financed by future, but unfortunately dead, generations.

Tr4head
Tr4head

Anybody old enough here to remember this from every movie or TV show involving Police catching the bad guys, which was never considered racist or brutal: STOP OR I’LL SHOOT!

That would take care of it. As a result, people didn’t run from cops or, if they rarely did, society said that is the price a free society pays for order. DONT RUN FROM THE COPS. Case closed.

Anonymous
Tax Accountant
Tax Accountant

The list needs updating; add Kroger and WallyWorld, each to the tune of $100 million for Negro Appeasement.

Ask yourself, in the end, who pays for all the money spent for such programs?

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

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ursel doran
ursel doran

Real Bullets come out from the stupids. Away we go…..
https://news.yahoo.com/vegas-officer-life-support-attack-151509994.html

ursel doran
ursel doran

It appears that the FBI is long gone.
All the blather about all the good rank and file folks seen here.
FBI Pledge Allegiance to Black Lives Matter, Antifa, Nation of Islam and New Black Panthers Protesters…

ZombieDawg
ZombieDawg

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Given that some employees of the dysfunctional disloyal FBI took a knee of support to BLM and the now terrorist classed ANTIFA it’s long overdue for mass sackings and employing people who actually have moral compasses.

flash
flash

And fags are fags .

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