Respect My Authoritah

More and more every day I see reports of police abuse. I'm not talking about some "bad apples" who are a "rarity." I'm not talking about "isolated incidents" that only happen "here or there." Police abuse is becoming much more widespread and common thanks to all the State's wars as well as the militarization and federalization of the police. And it's only going to get worse.

Here is the movie I saw today that prompted me to write this post. That movie is a relatively mild form of police abuse, I've seen far worse, but my blood still boiled as I watched these police thugs harass random citizens and completely deny them any of their natural human rights. The police will never stop infringing upon our rights, and they are only going to continue to become worse until We The People put a stop to it.

So why exactly do we have these worthless government leeches "serving" and "protecting" us anyway? They claim to serve and protect, but their real purpose is to instill police state fear into the citizens so that we do not question their "authority." But what would we do without cops? We'd be so lost! There would be complete chaos! Certainly they are not there to enforce the arbitrary mandates of our masters in the empire. Certainly they are not given free reign, and are not completely above the law.

Law enforcers above the law, huh? I believe that is a good definition of fascism. But cops are just a necessary part of life, right? We need them, right?

Yes, I would completely agree that we need cops, but we certainly don't need these thugs who leech off the taxpayer. America was founded on the principles of liberty and the free market, so why not extend the free market to the most important institutions in society (i.e., protection of our God given rights)?

Here is the basic difference between government services and free market services. In the free market, the provider of a service only exists so long as they both A) successfully serve the customer, and B) are able to compete for higher quality and lower prices against other providers of the same service. If they fail to do both A and B, then they have no customers, no money, and thus they cease to continue as an entity. They are done, finished, no more. That is why the free market so brilliantly provides great services, that is the beauty of competition.

The government on the other hand is just the opposite. They exist by social contract, not by the profits that they make. They exist and expand through the forced theft of private property, not by successfully serving the customer. The State always creates more excuses to continue expanding and to continue sucking up all the resources created by the free market. It is literally a leech, and so is everyone on the government payroll (unless they a Ron Paul Republican trying to restore sanity).

So, if we extend these ideas to policing, it is easy to see why cops get away with abuse so easily. They have absolutely no incentive to protect people's rights and no incentive not to abuse people (since they know they are above the law). Cop is having a bad day?...why not take it out on the citizens? Cop doesn't like the way you are talking to him, maybe he should just tase you for no reason! They have absolutely no incentive to provide the services that they are supposed to.

Private police, on the other hand, would do wonders for us. They would be provided by the free market, and so they would be required to protect people's rights or face not making any profit and disappearing. Got a bad apple on the private force? He's gone immediately, fired. Cop decides to commit a crime against a citizen? He is immediately fired and prosecuted. Hell, cop says something you don't like and you are free to talk to the manager, and he will be reprimanded if necessary. You know all the friendly service you get when you go to a restaurant, hotel, shoe store, car shop, etc.? That is all thanks to the free market (where else would the incentive come from for those people to be polite?). Imagine the cops being that friendly all the time, and providing the great service of protecting your persons and property!

Of course, privatization of the police means that you would have to pay for the police services, but they would cost far less than what you pay in taxes. Again, the government cops have no incentive to be frugal. They buy all kinds of little goodies, such as over-the-top weaponry, or those mustang cars that are supposed to make you feel intimidated (actually they are there so the cop can live his life pretending that he is in an action movie). The government police stations grow and grow, as their excuses grow, and they suck up more and more resources from private citizens.

Private cops would have incentive to be frugal like any other business. They would be forced to compete with other private cop companies to provide the services at the lowest possible price, and thus could not waste money on mustangs so they can pretend they are a hard ass. They would not buy black uniforms in order to instill a sense of fear in you. They would not buy electrocution torture devices and walk around all taser-happy. They would not force the masses into a dog mentality which never seeks to question and even goes so far as to defend its own oppression ("Why'd the cop tase him? Because he didn't obey the cop! He deserved it!" - I hate comments like this on youtube or elsewhere from sheepish worshippers of the State). They would not do marijuana sting operations, or any other sting operations for that matter. They would not seek out random citizens to arrest for non-crimes, their only purpose would be to protect you, your family, and your property. In other words, they would actually serve and protect, rather than just roaming around looking for people to harass because they are bored and miserable.

But what about the impoverished? They would lose their protection! First of all, the impoverished are the ones who the police harass the most. They know the poor are so far down on the government food chain that they can be robbed and harassed without consequence. The war on drugs is a prime example. Like I've explained in previous posts, drug prohibition is a necessary prerequisite for the arising of gangs. I think impoverished people in the inner city would probably be better off without gangs and police constantly battling all around them. Without this government intervention, the stagnation and poverty in the inner cities would begin to reduce and fade out. Not that the war on drugs is their only problem, but it is a prime agent. Also, they would be doing much better if they didn't have to pay all the arbitrary state taxes, for those who do pay.

Certainly, the poor would need police protection like anyone else. But they could be helped through voluntary private charity, if it had not been destroyed by forced welfare. Charity used to be huge before the era of big government, now people loathe paying taxes to help the poor, and the poor expect hand outs freely. In the good old days of charity, donors, who didn't have all of their private property stolen through government theft, could feel good about themselves donating to help the poor. The poor, in return, because there was no set precedent that anyone had to give them anything, were very thankful. Hmm, yet another shining example of how government separates and destroys the goodwill which the free market naturally fosters across any conceivable social divide (i.e., classes, races, religions, etc.). Here is a good quote from an article about big government which talks about the good old days, "Along came the American people and established the most unusual society in history: No income taxation, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, economic regulations, immigration controls, or welfare. For the first time in history, people were free to open up businesses without government permission or interference. They were free to keep everything they earned and to decide what to do with it. Charity was entirely voluntary. The result? The most prosperous – and the most charitable – society in history."

We don't need government police. They are an abomination and a destroyer of liberties. They are consistent violators of property. They cost too much and rarely provide successful services while generally providing disservices. They will continue to get worse unless something is done to stop this madness. Let people actually be served and protected, let us be truly free, let us have the right to pay for our own protection rather than being made to pay for our own forced obedience to the Authoritah of people with blue uniforms on who are constantly bored, don't know the first thing about the Constitution they are supposed to defend, and who are constantly looking to express their dominance over people who are just trying to make a legitimate living. The government cops need to Respect the Authoritah of We The People and go get real jobs.