A general rule I follow with government workers is that they are naturally Statists. This means that they are big government, spend and tax liberals. While they are not necessarily pro-welfare, they more than likely loyal to the government rather than the people they are suppose to serve. If your interests ever conflict with the interests of the state, they will not be on your side.
It’s a simple rule to understand if you live in the DC area. Most Federal workers supported Obama over McCain because Obama was more of a Statist than McCain. That includes the military bureaucrats who work in the Pentagon. Of course, I am speaking in generalities, and there are always exceptions when it comes to analyzing people, so please understand that individuals do count in my book.
Being a libertarian, though, I recognize that the greatest threat to liberty is the government, seeing as how they are the only legitimate and necessary force in a civilized society. On the front lines of that force is the police, there to uphold the law as written by fools we like to refer to as politicians.
More and more I reading stories where the police overreact and people end up hurt or even killed. Tazers are used on people when it is not necessary whatsoever. I’ve read stories where people are killed because they were tazered by police when these people were not threatening them at all.
But tazer use is just one example. The police are the arm of the government, ensuring that the laws that have been passed or mandated by a moronic judge are upheld. They do so without original thought nor any sense of individuality. They are told to do this, but I doubt that if they resisted they would lose their jobs. Government workers are hardly ever fired in the real world unless they royally screw up. I’m sure that wasn’t always the case, but these days it’s real easy to keep your job if you work for the Federal government.
For every government act of tyranny, you will find a police officer there to hand you a warrant, a subpoena, or a summons. When you practice civil disobedience, you will find a police officer there to make sure that things don’t get violent, but also to intimidate you. The excuse is that they are upholding the law and protecting law-abiding citizens, but honestly, do you really think that most law-abiding citizens need that level of protection from other individuals? Sure there are the old women, but even old women can be deadly with the right kind of pepper spray or small six shooter.
When the Ten Commandments were removed from the courthouses across America because of a small group of whiny atheists, who was it who ultimately removed it? It wasn’t the judges or the atheists who move it, it was the police. Those individual police officers may not have personally agreed with the decision and felt that the whole situation was ridiculous. But still they moved it because they were loyal to government and not to common sense.
Corruption in the police force often goes unpunished as well because even “good” cops tend to back up the bad ones. Their entire culture tends to be an “us” vs. “them” mentality when faced with dealing with you or I. They view civilians as the enemy, like they are in some kind of warzone, and they will not hesitate to protect their own. In the police world, it’s about protecting your own. Even if there are clearly bad cops, all the police tend to protect them because if they do not, they may end up not being protected themselves on the streets. That kind of mentality does no good to an organization that is suppose to protect us. If loyalty is regarded higher than integrity, then the organization is corrupt to the core.
I say all this because many of my fellow conservatives, who mean well, cannot understand that there are dark days ahead. Well, I’m sure many of them do, but they have no idea what these will entail. I can’t say that I entirely understand what will happen, but I know that it won’t be easy. We may end up having to do more than simply vote for the better candidate every year. We may actually have to take a stand against the rising tide of Statist tyranny that so many oligarchs and sheeple seem content on shoving down our throats.
When that day comes, and it probably will come as a result of the current actions of Congress and the Whitehouse, who do you think will be there to stop us? It won’t be men in suits with phony smiles waving at us. It won’t be stuffy bureaucrats who would rather be filing paperwork. It will the police, there to uphold the various tyrannies thrust upon us. It won’t matter to them that everything they are upholding is unconstitutional, just that the rule of law needs to be upheld. They will not realize that the rule of law is a farce these days and that they are following illegal orders from the oligarchs ruling from on high.
And they will succeed in oppressing us and beating us back because no conservative truly understands that they are not on our side.