- Why we get only idiotic reporting on guns from the MSM: one more data point. (And this from one of the reporters who was on the scene in Ferguson where rubber bullets were actually fired!)
- Craigslist: Roof Koreans for hire. 🙂 (H/T AG)
- MJR reminds me that it’s time to revisit Robert Peel’s nine rules for policing. Sort of encouraging that an MSM source ran that (even if a Canadian one).
- “Paper Boys.” Inside the dark, profitable world of consumer debt collection. Eeew!
- “Cigars, But Not Close.” Mark Steyn on U.S. police overkill.
- “The Low-Information Diet.” A classic from Mr. Money Moustache. Such things have been said in these parts before, but always need re-saying. (Maybe one of these days yours truly will actually listen.)
- Fools.
- The yellow dog project. Good idea beginning to gain worldwide traction: yellow ribbons to identify dogs who may be nervous, old, rambunctious, ill or otherwise not appropriate to approach.
The 9 Principles of Policing included this:
” To seek and preserve public favour, not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy, and without regard to the justice or injustice of the substance of individual laws…”
Sounds like the Nuremberg Defense to me… the rest of it made some sense, if you grant that police are needed at all (which I don’t). Anyway these 9 rules were written only to establish the institution of policing. Clearly, once established, there is little incentive among police to follow them any more. We’d be silly to expect them to do so.
I like that “low information diet”, and have practiced a lot of that. I appreciate the effort you make to filter out the bullshit and give us the rare nuggets. 🙂
Is it OK to militarize roof koreans?
Or do they need to form a militia first?
Heh.
Er….I’m curious…. If Mr Bonneau feels police are not needed, how does he figure criminals from the petty kind to those who commit mayhem are to be stopped or brought to trial?
@Curt
By shooting them. No need to bring them to trial then.
In this we have the advantage over people in 1829, when police were created in London (yes, life was possible, prior to that event). It is no big deal to buy a gun. Getting rid of police would instantly arm all of society. “An armed society is a polite society.”
Of course this assumes you share my belief, that the more people with guns there are, the better off we all are.
This article is worth a look:
http://www.constitution.org/lrev/roots/cops.htm
“By shooting them. No need to bring them to trial then.”
Well, in extreme cases, yes. There’s still a need for some type of justice system (e.g. to deal with fraud, negligent injury, etc.). But no reason that system couldn’t be private.
Before there were cops, there were Sheriffs.
On another note, something about dogs and their loss of faith in humanity. Oh, the inhumanites. ; )
http://viewmixed.com/27-dogs-whove-completely-lost-faith-in-humanity/11153?utm_source=Outbrain+Desktop&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Outbrain+Desktop+US
If I see a dog with a yellow ribbon, I immediately assume that his owner is away at war. They need to pick a different color.
In regard to Paul’s reply;
No, I have no objection to everyone being armed. And I agree, everyone should be armed AND at least trained how to shoot, and when not to as well. The only thing I am a little concerned about is the “private part”. I dunno….that could open up a real can of worms, as in corruptness, but then, considering how far off our present justice system is………
http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2014/05/ask-policeman-poster-1979.html?m=1
One could ask the question, “Given a choice, which justice system would you prefer living in?” With the following choices possible:
1) Current US system
2) Earlier US system, prior to police
3) Some free market variant, e.g. what L. Neil Smith wrote about
I cannot imagine that anyone making an *informed* choice would prefer #1. Our current system is AWFUL, EVIL.
I wrote about another system here:
http://strike-the-root.com/what-would-free-market-justice-look-like
I forgot to add the notion that “more police means more laws”. That is, the very existence of a gigantic institution of enforcement makes it possible for legislatures to direct and control the minutest factors of our lives. When justice is on the other hand, sparing and more difficult, as with that article I wrote above in backwater India, it means that it is impossible in a practical sense to control everything that people do. That means liberty. The institution of policing is fundamentally opposed to liberty.
Wouldn’t tagging dogs with yellow ribbons make them fair game for police? Cops could always claim they were putting the dogs out of their misery – or the dogs were, in fact, attacking them.
Good (sad) question, Pat. But since I think this is mostly for dogs on leash and not in their own yards or homes, it would be hard even for thugs to take things that way.
Yes… there are several sad questions I have these days, none of which I’m happy about.
OTOH, I’ve just read your latest article in BHM (It came yesterday, and I noticed the _suns_ as well!), and freedom does seem more hopeful.
The 21st Century feels like a race to see which will get to the finish line first ― Freedom or Tyranny; and what has the most influence ― technology and reason in the hands of freedom-lovers, or the “safety” and power of status quo in the hands of control freaks.
I think there is something we all should keep in mind. Never ever have laws prevented crimes or misdeeds. Matter of fact we have way too many laws on the books now, imho. The biggest cause/problem is with the majority of our society today, We have been slowly led to believe the “government” will take care of us. I think by now any person that is not brain dead sees the flaw in that. Yet, listening to people on the street as well as some of the comments made on various web pages or blogs…..I guess we have become a nation of idiots. Taking personal responsiblity for our actions is something long long passed by the way side. Now, I am not talking about social security here, I am talking about people being stupid as in the case several years ago where some lady burned herself with a container of hot coffee she bought at McDonals’s. I’ve said it before and I will say it again; Control a country’s money and you control the country, control the people’s food and you control the people, control the people’s health and you control their lives. Will we ever wake up? I highly doubt it until it is too late.
I know people who need to wear yellow ribbons.
Almost all “laws” are nothing but a welfare program for tax addicts/cops. No basis in necessity at all; just invented to give the enforcer parasites something to do to look busy, and to fool people into thinking they are needed for some strange reason.
I don’t need cops (and neither do you).