People are murdering Police Officers with several dead in the last two weeks. The criminals have universally been black men in their teens and 20's. Their victims have been white. The blacklivesmatter group (funded by old rich white guy George Soros) are fomenting racial wars hoping to get the police to withdraw. They do not seem to grasp the repercussions of their actions.
Yesterday, Instapundit commented on a Micheal Ramirez cartoon and had this to say:
SEE, I LOVE RAMIREZ, BUT I THINK THIS CARTOON GETS IT EXACTLY BACKWARD. Police don’t actually protect law-abiding citizens from criminals so much as they protect criminals from the much-rougher justice they’d get in the absence of a legal system.
Burglars would be hung from lampposts, and shoplifters would be beaten and tossed into the gutter if there were no police, as in fact happens in countries where there isn’t a reliable justice system and a civil-society culture that restrains vigilantism. Reminder to the criminal class: Ultimately, we’re not stuck in this country with you. You’re stuck in this country with us.
Today, Glenn had this post regarding a thief from Venezuela:
JUST YESTERDAY I WAS WARNING ABOUT THIS KIND OF THING: Livid over crime, some Venezuelans resort to mob justice.
When a man they believed to be a thief sneaked into their parking lot in the Venezuelan city of Valencia, angry residents caught him, stripped him and beat him with fists, sticks and stones.
They tied him up and doused him in gasoline, according to witnesses, in one of what rights groups and media reports say are an increasing number of mob beatings and lynchings in a country ravaged by crime.
That August night, as locals say is common, three people had sneaked into Valencia’s Kerdell residential block. In past such break-ins, thieves have made off with car tires, batteries and radios.
But this time, one resident spotted the trespassers and alerted other neighbors, according to the witnesses.
Some more:
The unconscious man, who was not torched, was evacuated and is now in the local hospital’s trauma ward, according to witnesses and Valencia’s police. The police said they had no further details and did not identify the man.
A source at the Interior Ministry, who asked to remain anonymous because the minister is the only person authorized to speak on the record, said it does not usually comment on cases under investigation. Venezuela’s state prosecutor’s office said it had not issued a statement on the incident.
When civil society breaks down, and people no longer believe in the rule of law, this is the kind of thing that happens.
Indeed - the budding anarchists out there might want to reconsider their life choices and actually think about contributing to this society. Our welfare state is not sustainable at the current level and it will be dialed back - what people do when this happens is their own choice but a lot of people have worked hard to build a life for themselves and when freeloaders start storming the gates, they will be met with a measure of resistance.
Title of the post? Those goofy proto-Marxists from the 1780's - these are not the shoulders of Giants, these are self-centered fools who have never had a real accomplishment in their lives. Tried reading a lot of the stuff and it is turgid and just wrong.
