Free Thought Project – by Larken Rose
Op-Edge — If you’re in a boat that just went over Niagara Falls, it’s a little late to be saying, “We really need to turn around!” You need to start thinking about what happens when you land. Frantically paddling backward will not help.
Similarly, some people’s level of denial and wishful thinking when it comes to police abuse borders on delusional. The police are a street gang—the biggest, most violent street gang in the country, which murders more people, and steals more property than all the others combined. They are not your friends. They don’t serve you. They never will. Nothing is going to make the average badge-wearer give a damn about you, your freedom, or your life. Petitions, lawsuits, elections, and protests cannot change the mindset or the behavior of a pack of predators.
By now the countless examples of cops acting as thugs, thieves and murderers should make it obvious that we have reached a point of no return. The very rare occasion on which a cop gets prosecuted, and the even more rare occasion when one is convicted, are obviously not creating a significant deterrent to the fascist mentality and behavior of the Bullies in Blue.
Mercenaries of the state love to tell the rest of us how important they are (a lie), how dangerous their job is (a lie), how brave they are (a lie), how they keep us safe (a lie), how there would be chaos without them (a lie), and how only criminals and terrorists have any reason to dislike or distrust cops (a profoundly stupid lie). And when they get criticized and condemned for being sadistic, power-happy thugs, they talk as if they are the victims. Like all bullies, the cowardly pigs can dish it out, but can’t take it. So while they continue to assault, rob, and murder innocents, they also continue to whine about the imaginary “war on cops.”
Let me be clear. There is no war on cops. But there should be.
No, I don’t mean indiscriminately attacking anyone with badge. But I do mean that I support the use of defensive force against aggressive thugs, even when those thugs have badges and wear uniforms. We are way beyond petitions and protests. The jackbooted thugs will keep getting more and more vicious and out of control, unless and until some of their victims start actually resisting.
American cops have earned the contempt and hatred of the people. And instead of the supposedly good cops being quick to expose and condemn misconduct by other cops, they almost always “circle the wagons,” making ridiculous excuses for the despicable behavior of their fellow state mercenaries. Every time the police do that, they are sending a clear message that if there is ever a conflict between you and a lawless, sadistic badge-wearer, they will side with their fellow gang member.
Cops have already declared war on the people, to the point where they are often indistinguishable from any other power-happy gang of sadistic thugs. The only question now is how long this “war” will be one-sided. When will the people start to defend themselves from the openly malicious and criminal thuggery of “government” criminals? And no, writing a strongly-worded letter to some politician after the cops have beaten another unarmed victim to death does not constitute defending the innocent. And trusting the cops to “investigate” and punish themselves is just plain moronic.
Sometimes it can be debatable what level of force police should use to subdue an actually dangerous person. But there are plenty of cases of cops committing completely unjustified and unjustifiable torture and murder. And there is no reason to think that any legislation or other political action is going to stop that. Several thousand years of history teach us that predators and bullies will continue to victimize the innocent until someone fights back.
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” – Frederick Douglass
Am I advocating violence against cops? Let me be perfectly clear here: YES, I am most certainly advocating violence against cops. Not indiscriminate violence against any and all cops, but purely defensive force against those individual badge-wearers who are clearly brutalizing the innocent. There are a hell of a lot of police abuse videos out there depicting behavior by the jackbooted thugs which would absolutely have justified the use of defensive force, even deadly force, against the aggressors with badges.
If that seems drastic and extreme to you, I should add that even the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledges the right to forcibly resist “unlawful” acts of aggression by the police, even if that requires the use of lethal force to stop the aggressor (see John Bad Elk v. United States). However, whether or not the politicians have given their “legislative” blessing to police thuggery is irrelevant to the morality of the situation. People have a right to resist “legal” injustice just as much as they have a right to resist “illegal” injustice. To think otherwise is to condone totalitarianism—to accept that as long as they first enact it into “law,” the ruling class has the right to do absolute anything it wants, and the people never have the right to resist.
It’s a little frustrating that any talk of forcibly resisting tyranny (and yes, “government” agents routinely committing murder in the streets constitutes tyranny) is now seen as extreme and dangerous by many Americans. What the Declaration of Independence lays out as justification for an open revolution is utterly trivial compared to what “government” at all levels in the U.S. does on a daily basis today. And asking nicely isn’t going to make things better.
Most American “law enforcers” have made it abundantly clear what they think of you, and what they think they can get away with. And what solution do the Bullies in Blue suggest for those of us who don’t approve of their thuggery? Passive, helpless, meek compliance, and begging them—the fascists, their political masters, and their kangaroo courts—for mercy. If that is all you will ever do to resist totalitarianism, then you are doing nothing for freedom.
“We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned – we have remonstrated – we have supplicated. … Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded. … If we wish to be free … we must fight! … There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery! … Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace – but there is no peace. The war is actually begun.” – Patrick Henry
As has happened over and over again throughout history, the American people will either remember the spirit of resistance, or they will be reduced to pathetic, helpless slaves of a totalitarian empire. Police abuse will only decline when the perpetrators have something real to fear. Like death, for example. (The “threat” of receiving a paid vacation is not an effective deterrent against power-happy, sadistic cops. Go figure.) And if you find this article shocking and offensive—if you are one of those people who has been so thoroughly indoctrinated into authoritarianism that you think it is never justifiable to resist an attacker if he wears a badge, no matter what he does—then just know that you are the tyrant’s best friend.
Read more at http://thefreethoughtproject.com/war-cops/#gzDysuDWbLE2tzro.99
“—if you are one of those people who has been so thoroughly indoctrinated into authoritarianism that you think it is never justifiable to resist an attacker if he wears a badge, no matter what he does—then just know that you are the tyrant’s best friend.”
This was better said by Samuel Adams..
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”
Outstanding essay, just like everything else I’ve ever read by Larken Rose.
Larken Rose has a very good book called ‘The most Dangerous Superstition’.
“There is no war on cops. But there should be.”
And this is why…
“Cops have already declared war on the people, to the point where they are often indistinguishable from any other power-happy gang of sadistic thugs.”
“Am I advocating violence against cops? Let me be perfectly clear here: YES, I am most certainly advocating violence against cops. Not indiscriminate violence against any and all cops, but purely defensive force against those individual badge-wearers who are clearly brutalizing the innocent.”
Self defense is an unalienable right.
If you see pigs indiscriminately murder someone, you are perfectly within your moral rights to shoot and kill them, by virtue of the fact that you could very well be next on their ‘hit list’.
Self defense.
today’s headline of another police shooting at harbor-ucla medical center
i guess there’s a war on cops at the hospital
this was after they thoroughly beat the guy up and stood guard over him
check out KTLA5 News
the poor mother begging them to stop and then later find out they murdered him
far as im concerned, even if he did attack them, it was self defense, after the fact
with whom is our police training with or who are the police doing this
If I understand your comment, you seem to ask with whom our police are training. Add to that list the finest of our county sheriffs from all over this Land and then look into the ridiculously inappropriate trips to Tel Aviv by scores of our law enforcement officers to be trained by the IDF – and I must surmise whatever sadistic, satanic-worshiping animals exist in the Talmudic Mossad that no-doubt participate – in, can you believe it, controlling terrorist and civil disobedience situations; blanket presumption of any and all “suspicious” citizens or those simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Say goodbye to Sheriff Andy Taylor and Sgt. Joe Friday – formerly dyed in the wool of our national fabric that touted an honorable protect-and-serve mantra. That’s an “old school” concept gone by the wayside like an abandoned dog or cat waiting to be euthanized. I ask you sirs and madams, what in the heck are we doing sending our police officers and sheriffs to ANY foreign country for this sort of training? We, the mightiest nation of all time on the face of the earth need military-police training from another country’s black-op forces, really? What’s wrong with that picture?
Everything.
“Ours” have been and are being trained to do just as “they” do in Palestine, Gaza and East Jerusalem to innocents in their own land – land that was illegally and unconscionably attacked and remains occupied and continuously terrorized to this day – with constant threat of genocidal elimination. “Cutting the grass” is how high-ranking IDF and Israeli officials refer to this “cleansing process” – so they shoot 8 to 10 year old boys playing soccer on the beach with hollow-point snipers’ bullets – and rationalize it. There are overwhelming numbers of children, grandparents and innocents “over there” who’ve been aware of and on the receiving end of this treatment for decades. Dead, dead, dead. Now it’s being imported stateside. Not so cool over here, eh? We better wake up, or we’ll be “up” IN a wake.
Talk about justifiable self-defense, we as a people may soon learn that we now have more in common with those who have been maligned by our controlled, lame-stream media and political bastions of power for a very long time – liars and prevaricators the bulk of ’em – than the majority of us ever realized before.
Did you know that we’ve been doing this since, guess when, shortly after 9-11? We have controllers who have infiltrated our country like an evil Trojan horse – infiltrators well on their way to overtaking everything. They’re already in possession of a once-proud free press (no more), the global debt-servitude banking cartel, the military forces of the entire western world as well as the Orwellian surveillance police-state apparatus. Now they’re infesting our finest in blue and brown, propagandizing and brainwashing scores of badges to believe that they are doing what must be done in a world fraught with terrorists everywhere. We The People have been labeled potential terrorists by nearly every bureau of our non-representative government and it is getting uglier by the minute. That sure justifies their adopted shoot-first, ask-questions-later mentalities and practices, eh?
The videos are countless now, viral is an understatement. Teenage boys driving a car, recorded on patrol car windshield cam, clearly documented breaking NO laws, deemed to be suspicious by the tailing officer, pulled over with lights, officer exits screaming with gun drawn, much apprehension and high anxiety ensues, multiple officers shouting conflicting commands, hands up, don’t move, get out of the car, don’t move, officer opens the back passenger side door, points revolver into the car and empties it into the young teenage boy in the back seat. Protect and Serve? Justifiable self-defense by a threatened police officer? The films don’t lie. Collectively, they represent a pitiful fall into the abyss of evil – an obsession with power and violent hostility directed at otherwise peaceful, law-abiding citizens – for the thrill of dominance, ego or hubris? When is enough, enough??
Give up your 1st and 4th amendment Bill of Rights in the name of security and liberty?? That’s an oxymoron, with a bold emphasis on moron. So I must ask now, who’s the bigger moron, those committing these heinous acts, their trainers and facilitators inside and outside of our “government” – or us, We The People? Think about it, speak up about it, do something about it.
If you doubt these circumstances exist, investigate for yourself. I would love to be wrong and for someone to prove this is merely all a nightmare.
Sadly, I AM right – it IS a nightmare – so awaken, or it’s nightmerica.
LOL… I can assure you that it was a rhetorical question. Everything you stated in your comment has been posted here numerous times.
Preachin’ to the choir, in other words.
Jus’ sayin’…
The Corruption of America’s Police by the ADL
http://nationalvanguard.org/2015/12/the-corruption-of-americas-police-by-the-adl/
L. Rose,
AMEN
“Should You Defend Yourself Against Violent Cops, Or Let Them Kill You and Your Loved Ones?”
Is this a trick question? I’ll trade killing me and my loved ones for what’s behind barrel number two.
(excellent article, Larken Rose, and spot on)
If you are being attacked by one, it seems you only have one option.. fight for your life, because either way yer Fu-ed !
THEY created the .. no option situation