I seem to keep bringing up Francis Porretto, but the statement of his regarding the Law being a substitute for violence seems to keep being more and more appropriate, especially the part where if the law fails, we reserve the right to violence. And I can't think of a better example than in Baltimore, where the criminal thug who killed a police officer by running her over with a stolen car was on house arrest for STEALING A CAR, and had failed multiple check-ins.
So, to wit - criminal thug steals a car, gets caught, is put on house arrest, fails to do anything mandated by the courts which should have resulted in the thugs incarceration, but instead he goes out and steals another car, gets caught again, and runs over a cop during his flight, killing the officer.
So what do we have now? We have two stolen cars, most likely destroyed or parted out, and one dead cop, with one criminal thug now finally in jail. The law has failed. It is time that civilized men reclaimed their right to violent retribution.
On that note: If this fucking thug had stolen my car, and I found out he was on house arrest, he wouldn't have stolen any more cars for a while because I would have tracked him down and beaten him with a baseball bat until he was begging for death. And then I would have left him to suffer with two broken legs, two broken arms, two busted knees, and various other broken bones that would have kept him in traction for months. Kinda hard to steal a car when you can't even bend your legs to get in the door, innit?
Kill him? No, I wouldn't kill him. Killing him is too easy, too quick. He wouldn't suffer from a bullet in the head. And his little thug friends might not even know or understand why it happened, since they tend to shoot each other at the drop of a hat. But finding your little car-thieving thug pal lying in a pool of his own shit and blood, crying, unable to move because every single bone required for locomotion is broken and splintered?
That'll leave a mental mark.
i live in what was a rather peaceful spot. i just returned from a couple week long deployment ( yep, still do that....) to hear a tale of excitement and ineptness from the guys replacing my roof. seems a couple evading our shining examples of law enforcement in the middle of a bright spring day and scampered into the road my house is built along. a U-shaped dirt lane with perhaps 10 houses along the entire 3/4 mile length. took every available state trooper unit ( we have no county sherriff) and a couple local town yokels 2 hours to corral one of the pair...who never left the lane. his girl partner? no idea where she got to. supposedly they were armed..not surprising, it is alaska. cops kept asking the roofers if they'd seen the guy... so i've bought my retirement compound. 40 acres 30 miles out of town. i'm thinkin fence, minefield, moat, battlements, portcullis....an the first yahoo politician or religious zealot who shows up gets drawn quartered and their head stuck on a pike at the end of the access trail. i've had enough.
ReplyDelete"Things refuse to be mismanaged long. Though no checks to a new evil appear, the checks exist, and will appear. If the government is cruel, the governor's life is not safe. If you tax too high, the revenue will yield nothing. If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will not convict. If the law is too mild, private vengeance comes in." -- Ralph waldo Emerson, "Compensation"
ReplyDeleteYou could govern a country with nothing more than the insights in that essay.