I’ve always viewed the police (and the people who blindly support them) as the sheepdogs who imply that you are safe only because they exist to protect you, and that without them, it would be a crime wave of unimaginable proportions. The times that police actually protect anyone from harm are so numerically low as to rate at zero. It’s like when cops are killed in the line of duty it always makes headline news not because a cop was killed in the line of duty, but because it’s so incredibly rare compared to the thousands of times higher murders of non-police. Which just goes to prove my point that the police aren’t really in the business of protecting anyone. If they were, they’d be out of business. So what is their business if it’s not the protection racket normally employed by criminals? Such circular logic employed on the sheeple.
We, the regular joes, can only be pushed so far before we start to push back. That is what he is saying, IMHO. In that respect the police are no better than the criminals. “Enforcing” ridiculous laws on us, the regular joes,especially where I live in the People’s Republik of Kalifonia, while the criminal have free reign on the streets.
September 22nd, 2015 at 9:41 pm
Excellent deduction; and for me, the most profound reading in the last week or so.
Bottom line: I can’t help but agree wholeheartedly with Glenn Reynolds’ reasoning.
Thanks for sharing Unc…”
September 23rd, 2015 at 10:06 am
I’ve always viewed the police (and the people who blindly support them) as the sheepdogs who imply that you are safe only because they exist to protect you, and that without them, it would be a crime wave of unimaginable proportions. The times that police actually protect anyone from harm are so numerically low as to rate at zero. It’s like when cops are killed in the line of duty it always makes headline news not because a cop was killed in the line of duty, but because it’s so incredibly rare compared to the thousands of times higher murders of non-police. Which just goes to prove my point that the police aren’t really in the business of protecting anyone. If they were, they’d be out of business. So what is their business if it’s not the protection racket normally employed by criminals? Such circular logic employed on the sheeple.
September 23rd, 2015 at 2:14 pm
You wish?
September 23rd, 2015 at 6:31 pm
And even though the police don’t protect us, nor are they legally required to do, officialdom doesn’t want us to do it either.
September 24th, 2015 at 2:36 pm
We, the regular joes, can only be pushed so far before we start to push back. That is what he is saying, IMHO. In that respect the police are no better than the criminals. “Enforcing” ridiculous laws on us, the regular joes,especially where I live in the People’s Republik of Kalifonia, while the criminal have free reign on the streets.