I'm sure her heart is good, but the heart has no grey matter. 
Posted on 01/26/2003 6:20:50 AM PST by RJCogburn
OK. (David B. King takes credit at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/7695/INDEX.HTM.)
Do you stand by the following? (You didn't quote it just now.) "The polite voice of a policeman is nothing more than a mocking, deceitful expression of tyrannous authority--the arrogant inhumanity of power--even if the policeman truly believes he is being polite! The fact of government's omnipotence over the individual renders his politeness a mere hypocrisy. In fact, the truant officer is a kidnapper; the tax collector is a thief; the soldier is a murderer."
CHAPTER 1
If we look beneath the surface of our public affairs, we can discern one fundamental fact, namely: a great redistribution of power between society and the State. This is the fact that interests the student of civilization. He has only a secondary or derived interest in matters like price-fixing, wage-fixing, inflation, political banking, "agricultural adjustment," and similar items of State policy that fill the pages of newspapers and the mouths of publicists and politicians. All these can be run up under one head. They have an immediate and temporary importance, and for this reason they monopolize public attention, but they all come to the same thing; which is, an increase of State power and a corresponding decrease of social power.
It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its own. All the power it has is what society gives it, plus what it confiscates from time to time on one pretext or another; there is no other source from which State power can be drawn. Therefore every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power; there is never, nor can be, any strengthening of State power without a corresponding and roughly equivalent depletion of social power.
If you think the writer of this essay is an idiot, what must you think of Nock, one of our greatest conservative thinkers?
Or J.S. Mill, for that matter?
What have we learned about the "polite voice of a policeman" from Ruby Ridge and Waco and Elian. No knock raids, warrantless searchs, drug stop roadblocks ect.
Where was the polite voice of the policeman who shot a boyscout in the face because??? The tax collector is not a thief...he is a robber, with all the armed power of the polite voiced policeman behind him.
"the truant officer is a kidnapper"
Think DFCS and CPS and understand they can take your child from you without due process.
"the soldier is a murderer"
This is the tipoff that I didn't write this. It is one of the few things in the essay I do not agree with. The soldier is just the soldier.
I guess the short answer is yes.
I agree---and policemen (local) still do spend much of their time defending individual rights.
May I suggest you add "Author's name withheld" (or something like that) to your home page?
When I first posted this essay, Mr. King had not granted permission to use his name.
Now that he is publishing his writings, I will find something new to put there.
Rosco managed to turn this debate from the subject matter at hand to this essay posted on my homepage. In that manner he avoided anwswers to my #97-#100.
With your assistance, I might add. You should know better then to fall into that trap by now. It's a common statist tactic.
That's an easy one, Bob. Believe me.
I don't agree with everything in every article I post, after all, but present it for discussion. The fact....there's that word again....is that Zyban was FDA approved after the article was published in 1995. Pearson and Shaw were wrong there.
What I stated was a fact
I'll assume you are referring to your comments about adverse reactions to Dilantin. I would not dispute that...after all, that is what had been reported, as have adverse reactions for virtually all meds. You seemed to be trying to suggest that the putative 'cure' for smoking, Dilantin, was worse than smoking.
If so, then, yes, I'd say you are uneducated on that fact, Bob.
I'm sure her heart is good, but the heart has no grey matter.
Talk about irony.
LOL
Good intentions are forging the links in our chains.
What's intrinsically wrong with being "high", euphoric or having an alterered state of consciousness? God says not to? Where does He say that?
Hello?
Perhaps---but what are those effects, and should that "something" be done by government?
They're smart enough to protect every rotten timber in their platform, but dumb enough to remain standing on it.
There are people that abuse all three, but they aren't locked up. Instead, they pay the personal price of vice: bad health, financial ruin and broken relationships.
Making drugs legal won't make for a utopia. Locking up all the drug users won't make for a safe society.
The drug war is about control over your life...
thisiskubrick, Thanks for posting in FR's backroom. I agree with your tag line. The running liberal pig-dogs will indeed be turned into bbq toasties in the sea of fire.
As far as I know, no American government Roscoe-like creatures have yet declared it illegal to lurk about in seedy areas of the internet such as FR's backroom. In America we may pay to have government Roscoe's toss our threads into the backroom, but we damned well have a God-given right (for the moment) to lurk and post in the backrooms!
Of course, in America "the privacy in one's home" in which one is free to lurk may be re/un-defined at any moment by nest fulls of government Roscoe-like creatures. I'm sure Ashcroft is planning raids and mega-trials right now pursuant to the Anti-FR Backroom Commission's findings that lurking and posting in FR's backrooms is a danger equivalent to slothful witch-craft--and may prosecuted under statutes still on the books. And as he well should! If Ashcroft doesn't protect me from this vice of watching the back room antics of Roscoe and CJ, I will be in a worse condition than any image of a drug user LAYING IN THE STREETS that Roscoe or Cultural Holy Warrior could imagine! And then the rest of the country will soon follow. We need these raids now and some new anti-FR backroom legislation while they're at it.
And speaking of hordes of drug users LAYING IN THE STREETS. Mrs Graham and I spent a couple of enjoyable weeks in Melbourne a few years ago, and it being my first trip to Australia, I was very interested in keeping an eye out for any major differences between a socialist country ruled mainly by Soccer Dads/Moms and what we have here in socialist America--a coalition between "liberal" Soccer Dads/Moms and the Church Ladies and their Husbands.
Contrary to what we pay our government Holy Warriors to tell us, not only did we not see 3 million drug users LAYING IN THE STREETS, we didn't see any drug users LAYING IN THE STREETS. In fact, the STREETS seemed to have a liveliness not found in America's cities--especially in the late afternoons and evenings on the weekends.
On the whole, though, it seemed that Australia's Soccer Moms/Dads are used as dupes by the knavish Racketeers just as profitably as America's Church Ladies and their Husbands. Hence, your economic socialism is similar to ours. We noticed high level drug bust narco-cracy stories in the newspapers nearly every day. The way the Gambling Racket is run in Australia (1 major casino per state) is another example of how the Soccer Moms can be utilized just as fittingly as dupes for the knaves that rule the world.
But you have gambling "pokies" everywhere and you aren't waging a pogrom against gamblers and drug users. Millions of Australians have not been bullied into jails, prisons, probation, programs, and re-education camps. There's your difference between Soccer Mom Socialism and Church Lady Socialism.
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