It's a tragedy to see.
I just wish there was a way to avoid being collateral damage during their carnival of self-destruction.
If someone is violating life, liberty, or property, they are the bad guys. If they are paying you to help them do any of those things, then you're a bad guy, too.
There's really no wiggle room there.
Or Wiggum room, either.
Then a Blue Line Mafia goon, commonly called a "police officer", alerted to a possible "sovereign citizen" [sic] by the Flock cameras he was watching his ex with, rushed to the scene to cause trouble.
Cop: "License, registration, and the animal's health certificate and vaccination records."
Yankee Doodle: "What?"
Cop: "You heard me. Are you resisting?"
Yankee Doodle: "...?"
Cop: "Where are you going, what is your business there, and where are you coming from?"
Yankee Doodle: "Why?"
Cop: "I need your identification."
Yankee Doodle: "My name is Yankee Doodle."
Cop: "That's obviously an alias, and that gives me reasonable suspicion to arrest you."
Yankee Doodle: "What's going on?"
Cop: "Do you have anything on you that I need to know about?"
Yankee Doodle: "No."
Cop: "I smell marijuana- possibly alcohol, too, and is that a gun?"
Yankee Doodle: "I don't understand the questions. This is America."
Cop: "Hey, that looks like an eagle feather in your cap. You're going to prison, boy!"
Yankee Doodle: "I found this feather on the ground, but I don't know what kind it is. I call it my 'macaroni'."
Cop: "So, you are on drugs... "
Yankee Doodle: "What? No, 'macaroni' means..."
Cop: "Stop resisting! DON'T MOVE! PUT YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND HAND ME YOUR PAPERS!!"
In the scuffle, while attacking an innocent traveler and dragging him from his horse, the cop manages to shoot himself in the foot because of the extraordinarily dangerous situation he created.
Cop: "SHOTS FIRED! Officer down! Send backup NOW!!!!!!"
FOX News reports that a probable Antifa-affiliated Democratic Socialist commie attacked and injured a heroic officer who was just trying to keep us all safe. "He should have complied faster." Fortunately for the sake of "lawn odor", he was neutralized by the responding thugscrum. Two officers were injured in the firefight, but it isn't clear who fired those shots. The department promises to "thoroughly investigate" itself before finding that none of its officers did anything wrong.
CNN reports that another "white nationalist" has committed "gun violence", which shows again that only government employees can be trusted to have guns.
MSNBC, or whatever it calls itself now, sat and drooled while eating crayons and paste.
Simply being seen to be armed can't reasonably be the "crime" of brandishing.
Holding a weapon in your hand, ready in case it's needed, can't reasonably be the "crime" of brandishing.
To be a real crime, brandishing must mean pointing a weapon at an innocent person (someone who isn't violating anyone's life, liberty, or property at present).
Pointing a firearm at a violator is what you should be doing in some cases, and it's not "brandishing" as a crime.
Letting a bad guy know you're armed by showing your weapon is a peaceable attempt to discourage the bad guy and convince him you're not an easy target, not a crime. Only a criminal would treat such an act as a crime.
I hate the way the anti-gun bigots of government use this word to mean whatever they want it to mean to excuse their crimes against self-responsible, prepared people.
Just so they can shoot their friendly labradoodles, probably.
And, of course, the armed goons who work for the state never get punished for ACTUALLY brandishing in a dangerous manner* when they point their weapons at- or shoot at- innocent people. That's how you can tell it's a nonsense "offense" made up by copsuckers and other government supremacists.
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*There's a specific case I'm thinking of, and I remember at least one photo showing a family in a car, the man who was driving holding his hands up, and a cop pointing a rifle in his face. It seems the image has been scrubbed from the internet; flushed down the memory hole. Unless I'm imagining the whole thing. I don't think I am.
Therefore, I oppose government.
Therefore, I oppose legislation (counterfeit “law”).
Therefore, I oppose the existence of "law enforcement" (police).
Therefore, I oppose traffic police.
If traffic cops are to exist anyway, even though they shouldn't, then they must not be allowed to make contact with anyone who cannot be clearly seen with the naked eye, driving dangerously.
If the "offense" relies on technology such as radar, traffic cameras, or a breathalyzer to detect, it's not real. It's certainly not worth robbing or killing people over.
It's getting worse.
Government counts on it always moving in this direction. That's a dangerous bet to make.
Government, you treat your superiors as the enemy, and they are likely to eventually get the message. And when they do, you're done. You're outnumbered. You may put a lot of stock in your fighter jets, bombs, and tanks, but people operate those tools. People give the orders. People you treat as the enemy as long as you aren't directly pulling their strings. People who have friends and family that you treat as your enemy. People who still depend on society made up of other people.
You can't win this war, even though it looks like you are winning the battles. To govern others is to fail. To govern others while treating them as your enemy is to beg them to destroy you. Either directly, or by walking away and ignoring your tantrums. You only govern as long as people comply. It's time the people stopped complying; stopped obeying. You've earned this. It's your inevitable fate.
What I don't know is whether they stopped being cops because of how evil cops are, or if they quit first, then realized what they'd been a part of.
One guy was a retired deputy. He told me he hated what cops had become. He was the first to tell me to do the right thing regardless of what the "law" says- but be careful.
I don't know whether he ever realized cops were always evil, even before he noticed, or if he really believed they had undergone some sort of change over the years.
Sheriff Andy Taylor was always a myth.
I never really talked to him about his years as a cop and the counterfeit "laws" he had enforced. He was a decent character, and I didn't feel like bringing it up. His last name, ironically, was "Pigg".
I've known and talked to other cops and former cops over the years, so when some copsucker pulls out the "Have you ever sat down with a cop...?", my answer is, "Yes, I have. Many." The decent ones were ex-cops, the crooked ones were current cops, and the very worst of the bunch was a cop-in-training. It's a downhill trajectory, and I don't expect it to get better as the police state grows more controlling and evil- and as the most worthless and evil individuals out there are drawn to policing as a career.
So, maybe they really have gotten worse over the years, and the former deputy was right.
If you look at all the things going on in the world, politics is to blame for most of the worst of it. Most of it would fizzle out on its own if not for those among us who have gone politics crazy and become horrible people in the process. You could make the argument that they become monsters.
So, not only does politics make people stupid, it seems uniquely able to turn people horrible. It makes them stupid, drives them insane, and then at the crossroads of crazy and stupid, you have them advocating for things they'd know are evil- if they could stop and think clearly (without politics twisting their minds) for even a minute.
Instead, they'll attack anyone asking for accountability from their favorite political criminal.
They'll switch sides on an issue the moment one of their "influencers" tells them to.
They'll demand more slavery and theft because they want something or are scared of something else.
They'll stake out a position that is opposite to their stated morals and go against every ethical standard, just because their team believes it would be good for them. Or because they believe it will hurt the other team. Often, hurting "them" appears to be more important than helping "us". They've become Statanic.
This is why I take offense when anyone characterizes me as someone who writes about politics. I warn people about politics. I encourage them to reject politics. I'm not trying to talk people into agitating for a political "change" that would result in more of the same. I wish they would stop being political and be ethical instead.
No one has ever become a better person because they embraced the political means. Never.
But it is nearly guaranteed to make someone worse, unless they are already irredeemable.
Not simply the belief in governing others as a legitimate human endeavor, but enthusiasm at the prospect of that state hurting or killing (sacrificing to the god of the State) those whom the Statanist doesn't like for their political or personal views. A political lust for blood.
To be Statanic is to take on the qualities and beliefs of Statanism.
Don't act Statanic, but embrace liberty.
I have zero respect, and bottomless contempt, for armed government employees. They can't really do anything to make their position worse.
But, seeing the apologists, and recognizing how they'd be justifying (or cheering) the SS troops in the streets doing the same sort of things, colors my perceptions of the armed government employees even darker.
I keep being disappointed.
I expected too much of people poisoned by politics.
My mistake.
If you work for government, you are obligated to never hide your face while on the clock, even if it puts you at risk.
If you work for government in America, you are obligated to obey the Constitution to the letter- not the Supreme Courtjesters' "interpretation" of what the Constitution might mean if government has its way, but what it really says. Even if this means disobeying a direct order under threat of death, losing your "job"/pension, or being imprisoned.
If you work for government, it is your responsibility to die before you violate anyone's life, liberty, or property in the slightest way, or in defense of anyone's life, liberty, or property. Your life is forfeit if there's any rights violation going on in your vicinity, if that's what it takes to stop it. Whether you are the violator or not.
If you are unwilling or unable to fulfill these obligations and responsibilities, you are unfit for a government "job". So, obviously, this proves that no one is suited for a government "job".
That means I've done something to get guns out of the wrong hands; guns that may have even been used in the commission of crimes.
I've probably done more good than all the anti-gun "laws" put together.
You're welcome.
(OK, I realize they just bought more guns to replace the ones they sold- and we know freelance bad guys would never do the same, and once they no longer have a particular gun, they are forever gunless. Right? Right?)
It's lonely, but it's worth it to be on the ethical side.
I can barely wrap my head around the people making excuses, blaming the victim, and pretending that "the law" [sic] and ethics are the same thing. And lying that any of this is Constitutional (if that matters to anyone).
I know I'm not really alone.
I'm seeing others being attacked for not cheering the jackboots, so I'm less alone than I feel I am. I step up to defend them when I can. But it's overwhelmingly one-sided against us, and defending them brings the wrath of the mob down upon me. Which is tiresome.
Even those who know all anti-gun rules are illegal pretend that "immigration" rules are valid. It makes no sense if you expect humans to be consistent and rational- which I don't, but still...
I hate standing with those who, in other situations, want armed government thugs to steal my guns and murder me if I resist, but sometimes you've got to anyway.
On the other hand, cops are scum. No matter which agency they work for, or what their badge says on it. If they "fear for their life", they need to find a different job. Their primary- and possibly only- duty is to die to protect your life, liberty, and property, not to murder to enforce counterfeit "laws".
Enforcing unethical (and unconstitutional, if you care about such things) "immigration" rules puts you on the wrong side. Murdering someone who is trying to escape from your authority-addled display of aggression just stacks more wrongdoing on top of wrongdoing.
It doesn't matter whether or not I would have liked the dead woman, or even if she was only inspired to protest because she hated the current president (as I suspect was the case). Politics makes people stupid, after all.
You have the right to drive over anyone who is blocking your way, be they a protester or an enforcer. Don't block cars if you don't want to be run over. And if you do, your claims of "self-defense" will be ridiculed by smarter people.
The comments I see people copsuckers making about the situation make me sad for the future of liberty in America... and the world.
If you hate other people more than you love liberty, there's no hope for you. And this seems to be the case with so many people these days. They love Big Brother and his rules more than they value liberty. That's not good!
One of them expressed her deeply held feelings on the matter:
I can't believe I'm watching people defend the Venezuelan Cartel dug [sic] smugglers. They're terrorists ok. Does the left really think they would agree to a stop and search?! I do not care that they are dead. I do not care about their rights. I care about American lives.
Some people need to experience the loss of a loved one from Fentanyl or a terrorist terrorizing their home in order to understand that these people are NOT DESERVING of human compassion. (And no, I'm not hoping it happens to anybody, but damn the virtue signaling will be the death of many more Americans.)
Stop defending terrorists. Just STOP IT.
I responded:
No one has a right to prohibit free trade in substances, or murder those who ignore the prohibition. And since rights are individual, not collective, and governments are collectives, governments have no rights (or imaginary “authority”) at all.
https://kentmcmanigal.blogspot.com/p/kentforliberty-drugs.html
Another statist replied:
This is why no one takes libertarians seriously.
My comment to this bit of wisdom:
Thanks for playing.
He deserves a participation trophy in the contest of having principles and independent thoughts.
Someone scolded those opposed to this murder by saying that if they'd lost anyone to "illegal drugs", they would feel differently. Hmmm.
I lost my older daughter almost 10 years ago due to someone else's abuse of substances. It still doesn't excuse prohibition.
Just like the fact that I've lost people close to me to evil losers shooting them, and this in no way justifies anti-gun rules.
Of course, the statists miss the point. As they always do.
I wasn't defending the Venezuelan drug cartel members. I was standing up for liberty and against tyranny. Standing up for natural human rights- rights government and its fans don't care about. Or actively hate.
Liberty matters, even if you don't care.
If I must become a stupid statist to be taken seriously by the stupid statists, I'll pass.
If someone can't stand up for principles, even when they have deep feelings on the matter, they're useless. Well, useless for any good purpose. They're very useful to tyrants and political criminals.
When that doesn't work, and it won't, they'll go after something more obscure.
When even that doesn't work- and it won't- they'll always find something else to ban or "control". Not because "Weapons!" But because they mean to control you!
No one has a right, or the imaginary "authority", to ban or "control" your tools/weapons. Not for any reason.
If you allow them to do it anyway, it's not going to reduce crime, so they'll have to try something else. Since they don't want to try something that might accidentally work, they'll keep doing the stupid things. The evil things.
Here's a secret: They aren't trying to make you safer; they are trying to make you helpless against them and their plans for you. So, no ban will ever be enough as long as you aren't a helpless slave, relying on them for everything you need, and handing everything you own to them for "the common good". This is what they lust for. Don't give it to them for any reason.
All of these people are evil; some are also idiots. None of them are on your side.
Do not comply.
Cop: "I'll need you to hand over your gun for both our safety."
Innocent person: "I'll need you to do the same, for both our safety, since cops are statistically much more likely to kill an innocent person than I am. We are both safest if we each keep our own weapon."
The cop then shoots and murders the innocent person for non-compliance, thus proving the victim's point. He's right, but dead.
Copsuckers: "He should have just obeyed! You have to obey, even if the officer is wrong! If the officer is wrong, stay alive and work it out in court later. He was just doing his job and the criminal made him fear for his safety!"
Liberty continues to die a little more each day.
The End.
