Dear Readers,
Virginia libertarian automotive journalist & author Eric Peters wrote this week
about how government police forces have corrupted the original intent of
policing:
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"Most of the laws on the books (as in Nazi Germany, as in the Soviet Union, as
in post-war East Germany) criminalize innumerable actions (and even
non-actions, such as failing to buy now-mandatory health insurance) that
involve no harm to other people or their property but rather constitute
offenses against the state and its statutes.
"It is the job of cops to force people to submit and obey period.... Cops are
not expected to consider the rightness or wrongness of an action as such; only
whether a given action (or non-action) is illegal. It is the same mentality
expressed by a genuinely bewildered Adolf Eichmann at his trial in Israel for
war crimes. He was merely following orders.
"Inevitably, as this corruption of the soul takes hold, any challenge to the
states limitless authority becomes in the minds of those charged with
protecting the states authority the essence of wrongness. And the response
to any perceived threat to this authority grows ever more brutal and
disproportionate."
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The full article is here:
http://www.ericpetersautos.com/2013/12/24/good-cops/
Take a few minutes to check out Eric's writing.
-- Marc Montoni, Secretary
Libertarian Party of Virginia
P.S. Do you know of other Virginia Libertarians with recently-published
material? Send us the link to each article, and pen a few words to introduce
it to your fellow Libertarians!
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