tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post5224558214676697588..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: The Perverse Ingenuity, and Routine Lawlessness, of Law Enforcers William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-69626798622685230262017-01-12T20:38:31.180-07:002017-01-12T20:38:31.180-07:00Of course they slime around the laws and lie to ci...Of course they slime around the laws and lie to citizens and lie under oath in courtrooms. The more arrest and convictions they rack up, the higher they go up the ladder. More pay and that means more their retirement will pay. With those facts in mind, how can any judge allow cops to testify in a court of law. Yea sure there are some cops that have standards and will not lie under oath. But there is no way to know the good from the bad. A parasite can't stand the thought of work that puts dirt under their fingernails. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-37593672119924591702017-01-12T13:50:32.091-07:002017-01-12T13:50:32.091-07:00In the free society or natural law society systems...In the free society or natural law society systems like language and law are discovered. No individual word can be attributed to creation by a particular individual. No single law can be attributed to a particular author or authors. Rather in free societies law is discovered by trial and error such as to comprise that least set of rules which best serve to safeguard individual rights, best serve to prevent conflict, and best serve to quickly resolve conflict. The tiny number of rules in the 10 Commandments dramatize natural law. The Brehon system of Ireland and the Xeer of Somalia likewise come to mind. In the political societies on the other hand, natural law can be said to have been colonized by contending political gangs and gangsters. The Brehon law system was reworked from a private system of equitable dispute resolution into a bureaucratized mechanism of plunder following the English invasion of Ireland in the early 17th century. Under political rule the function of law is inverted: Rather than serving to prevent or mitigate conflict as in the case of natural law, political law, termed 'positivist' law by juridical theorists, acts ceaselessly to incite conflict. One can trace such strategies of political law at least as far back as Plato where in the Alcibiades he speaks to the necessity of creating and preserving enemies both internal and external to the state as an artifice for maintaining the ruler’s political power. In the modern democratico-communist states, prohibitions play the role of conflict inciting strategies. In the USA Prohibition was deployed as the means by which to incite a quasi religious war between rural establishment Protestant Christians and urban immigrant Catholic Christians. The US political class's present drug warfare project similarly acts to make black urban populations appear as an internal enemy against which only the states militarized police can act as defense. Randolph Bourne was certainly right to point out that war is the health of the state. But it is important to understand that war is a permanent structural feature of ALL political control. In Clausewitz words, 'war is politics by other means, politics is war by other means.' Inciting conflict and plundering subjects is the defining characteristic of ALL political control. The wonder is how it has managed to remain so stable a feature of human societies while being ceaselessly violent, predatory, and destructive. <br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-30544656180500987172017-01-11T12:30:55.394-07:002017-01-11T12:30:55.394-07:00As a retired member of the Punitive Priesthood, I ...As a retired member of the Punitive Priesthood, I can confirm you are spot on as usual. Well done Sir. Mike Rossnoreply@blogger.com