Sipsey Street Irregulars: Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power

Friday, December 5, 2014

Eric Garner and Omnipresent Police Power

The Eric Garner case is a reminder that government is force, and more government equals more force.

In a city where everything is taxed and regulated and you can’t put trans-fats in your food or buy a soda that’s too large, it makes perfect sense that they would harass a guy for selling cigarettes on the streets without permission. After all, they’re bad for people. Somebody might die.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...: The power of the Grand Jury needs to back to the people.; December 5, 2014 at 7:32 AM
Anonymous said...: Big city,collectivists and their tax agents, the boys in blue. Strangle a man ,to death for selling untaxed cigs. Behind Enemy Lines. In Unconstitutional Ct. We Will Not Stand Down. AAA/O.11B20.; December 5, 2014 at 9:10 AM
Anonymous said...: I don't agree with the grand jury this time. The cop that killed Mr. Garner should be fired immediately charged with murder. The grand jury in Ferguson did the right thing. The one in New York did the wrong thing. It is absolutely excessive force to kill someone over a shitty minor charge like that. I hope that cop gets sent to prison eventually and I will agree with the protestors over this one.; December 5, 2014 at 10:15 AM
Anonymous said...: Right on Anon 7:32am! National Liberty Alliance is in a battle right now to get common law grand juries back and end this nonsense of a D.A. leading a grand jury around by the nose. Grand juries being secret, we'll never know just what charges the D.A. brought against the cop on Staten Island. For all we know the charges had nothing to do with murder. A true grand jury, one run by the People, not a D.A. can issue a "presentment" which carries as much weight as an "indictment". Oh, but the powers-that-be don't like the People having that much power. Hell, we just might start writing presentments on them!; December 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM
Oregon Hobo said...: Hallelujah! The spotlight is finally shining on a case that's not a bunch of overhyped hand-wringing over some euphemized and euthanized violent thug.

This is so far off the standard narrative that I can't help wonder if it's a mistake. I keep expecting one of the talking bobbleheads on the teevee to blurt out something like "Waitaminnit, selling cigarettes? Ah hell, we got punked. The memo said he was coordinating a public beheading festival. This was supposed to be an exposé on NYPD's lack of diversity training. Ok moving onto our next story, winter is cold."

#OREGON HOBO#; December 5, 2014 at 3:36 PM
Paul X said...: Killed for a few cents of tax revenue. Much like the Branch Davidians in Waco, in fact.; December 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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