By: Shane T. Hazel, Policy Advisor
When I was a young boy one of my favorite shows was COPS. “Bad boys bad boys, What’cha gonna do when they come for you?” Since then there has been an explosion of Law Enforcement programming, and it’s not by coincidence.
The United States of America with 5% of the world’s population has
the largest prison population on earth. That’s right, we lead the
world in incarceration. How could that be in the “Land of the
Free”?! Programming.
We
The People, are absolutely inundated, indoctrinated and programmed by
the State at every turn before we can even speak. Lets focus on the
programming, today.
Let
me first say, Sheriff’s, Deputies, Police and Agents who I know a
lot of, are not mean spirited people. In fact I think most of them
think they are protecting Americans. Unfortunately the indoctrination
and misinformation from the State and the programming they receive
while growing up feed directly in to our current paradigm of mass
incarceration.
On
any of these reality Law Enforcement programs when is the last time
officers busted anyone with the real means to defend themselves? Or
that actually knew their Natural Inalienable Rights or the
Constitution? Someone in the Government? Another Law Enforcement
Officer? No, what you see most of the time are Officers arresting
people for possession of “drugs” or some other obscure
victim-less “crime”.
To paraphrase James Madison in Federalist paper No 62. “It will poison the blessing of liberty if laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” I don’t think the greatest minds in “law” today could successfully argue that we have too few laws. Moreover, I will add that we have so many laws that we have all been made criminals, and that is where I believe we begin real criminal justice reform.
Crimes
need to be simple, easy to understand and most importantly, crime
requires a victim before “Law Enforcement Officers” begin the
process of bringing the criminal to justice. If there isn’t a
victim then a crime has not been committed. If a “law” can not be
boiled down to Murder, Assault, Rape, Kidnapping, Coercion, or
Property Damage then more than likely it’s a revenue generating
scheme for the ever growing State that preys on our fears while
usurping or completely destroying our Inalienable Natural Rights and
worst of all the State will tell us it’s for our “Safety”.
“You
hate COPS Shane!” I assure you I don’t. I hate tyrannical
governments. These ideas, and these principles pave the way to make
officers and citizens safer as it strictly limits, transforms and
naturally de-escalates our everyday interactions. And at the end of
the day, I want everyone to return home safely to their loved ones
where they belong including Cops.
Cops, your original mission was to be “the thin blue line”
between the people and our government, in that you were commissioned
to protect our Inalienable Natural Rights, not use force against us
for exercising those rights. And per the 9th Amendment we
are secured all rights not listed in the Bill of Rights. We have the
right to; trade, run business, travel, bear arms, speak, worship,
redress our government without permits or licenses, without ‘buts’
or asterisks as long as it hurts no other person or property. “Laws”
that restrict our Natural Rights to protect us from exercising our
Natural Right are repugnant, and as you swore an Oath to uphold the
Constitution of the United States per art 6 sec 3 of Constitution you
are duty bound to push back against everyone in the State that would
have you violate that Oath.
Simplicity
is the genius of design. The natural principles of Peace, Free
Markets and Individual Liberty are simple and they’re making the
same come back they have throughout history when tyrannical States go
too far in the persecution of their own people. Turn off the
tyrannical programming and lets re-boot the classics like Madison,
Locke, Batiste and Hazlitt.
If
we want to be Free men and women, then we must act as free men and
women act, and that starts with nature’s timeless undeniable
principles.