These are the laws the people in that jurisdiction voted for. If we allow the law to be changed because someone doesn’t think it should apply to them, so they fight the police, that replaces civility with barbarism.
The laws are not the fault of the police. To fight them when enforcing it, is to put one’s own life, the lives of the police, and those of innocent bystanders in danger.
So to hell with that fat scumbag! You don’t like the law? There is a peaceful process of changing it.
And this is the sort of jurisprudence for which the people of NYC voted. It is a heavily regulated society. That’s what the voters apparently want.
This is why I have little sympathy for people who have found themselves subject to unchecked riots accompanied by grinding lockdowns. When I see a shopkeeper being interviewed complaining how their outdoor market is closed while the outdoor canteen for a movie set is open, my question always is, “did you vote Democrat?”
These are the laws the people in that jurisdiction voted for.
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Yes, I agree with every point you’ve made in this post.
These are the laws the people in that jurisdiction voted for.
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Yes, I agree with every point you’ve made in this post. Well, almost. The people of course don’t vote for the laws they vote for the lawmakers. And the problem is that many lawmakers, regardless of party affiliation, cannot be relied upon to enact ONLY laws that actually need to be enacted. As a result we have countless laws on the books that are needlessly repressive. And the further we drift away from the kind of government envisioned by our Founders by the enactment of such laws the more repressive our society becomes. Henry David Thoreau, in “Civil Disobedience,” (1849), was spot on: “That government is best which governs least” We’re about to observe more clear evidence of that over the next four years.