From: "E.J. Totty", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>This has come out on the same day as a report that racial complaints against
>the police are at an all time high. If this release was put out to
>counteract this bit of bad publicity it seems to have worked as it has had
>far more coverage (at least on radio).
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>Brian T
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>I'm convinced the police can't crack the problems in Handsworth because
>they don't have enough black undercover officers.
>
>Steve.
Steve, & Brian,
Without getting into much of a philosophical discussion,
allow me this: If the number of things that people normally do were
not declared malum prohibitum, then the number of things that cause
crime would be of necessity be nonexistent.
Ergo, the more 'things' one inveighs against, the more effort
that must be expended to counter not only the inveighed against, but
also the tactics which are employed: setting traps, making contacts,
paying stoolies. doing wiretaps, doing stakeouts, prosecuting the
suspects, dealing with delaying tactics, etc.
If the government were made to quantify in time and money, the
efforts that they expend in pursuing an essentially victimless pastime,
and if the number of criminals and criminal substances were totalled
as to <real> value in an otherwise non-criminal venue, I wonder just
what the real costs (time, money, and lives) would factor out to be in the
artificial (read: Malum Prohibitum) environment of the present?
Not having enough members of the darker persuasion, is not
a problem in itself, and merely one of perception. From my own
experiences here in the US, one is considered to be a turncoat to one's own
race when one does work for the establishment that tends to establish
one's race as a 'problem'. The are many exceptions, but when the cards
fall in the wrong places, those racially identical to the criminals tend to
be targets of revenge.
Ultimately, false crime produces false criminals, and invites
the members of the law enforcement community to become major
players, not only for the money but also for the ability to incriminate
those whom are seen as adversaries, by using the laws as leverage to
inflict pain, instead of mere justice.
Corollary: your firearms laws.
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"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any
government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes
impossible to live without breaking laws."
--Ayn Rand, "Atlas Shrugged"
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