Sipsey Street Irregulars: "The Injustice the DOJ Uncovered in Ferguson Wasn’t Racism" -- It was Predatory Government.

Sunday, March 8, 2015

"The Injustice the DOJ Uncovered in Ferguson Wasn’t Racism" -- It was Predatory Government.

But what the material in the report reveals is less a culture of racial animus than one of predatory government: “Ferguson’s law enforcement practices,” states the report, “are shaped by the City’s focus on revenue rather than by public safety needs.” In the interest of expanding its treasury, Ferguson has employed its police department — 58 officers, policing a town of 21,000 — as an enforcer of the myriad municipal regulations that, rigorously enforced, nickel-and-dime the citizenry to the local government’s benefit.

The other day, racing around trying to get ready to fly out to Spokane (you all know how THAT turned out), I was stopped at a stop light in Leeds, AL. There was a gas station parking lot conveniently to my right so I cut through it. Stupid. Leeds' finest were waiting to give me a $185.00 ticket for evading their traffic signal. Stupid. I know about Leeds and how it feeds. Lord alone knows how I'm going to pay the fine and I have no one to blame but myself -- myself and the predatory tax feeders who obey the politicians' demands for more and more revenue. PS, the cop was white and I wasn't black, so I'm fairly certain no racial animus was involved. Just predatory government . . . Again. . . Forever.

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Anonymous said...: Cops becoming revenuers was one of the two things that led to the dishonoring of their profession and the loss of the public's trust. The other was them trying to be soldiers instead of cops.; March 8, 2015 at 9:03 AM
Anonymous said...: I remember days gone by when home made signs warning of a SPEED TRAP AHEAD were common. Might be time to get back into the sign business.; March 8, 2015 at 9:21 AM
Anonymous said...: Holder, OBAMA to, implement the race card alongside this salient point IN ORDER TO get people to dismiss it! Both know full well it isn't racial - it IS gubmint sending out "police" to generate revenue streams (that of course can then be leveraged). The only "safety" is insuring the borrowing can continue.

By making that admission as part of the ferguson debacle, the instant a person points to that "study", most refise up give it credibility because of all the lies told all along about what went on there.

Make no mistake - this same "report" can be drawn up about every department in every place (can you say pot arrests justifying drug war budgets?).

Take your example - if SAFETY was paramount, rather than dinero, then ZONING POWER would be employed to make the driving example you listed IMPOSSIBLE. But instead. That zoning power was used to create a trap - a real money maker. It's just like speeding - if it was about safety (cmon now we don't want-can't have 120mph drag races in school roads at 755 in the morning) then there wouldn't be fines....they would just take license away entirely.

I've said all along that those feral fools down there have a point - and that the playing of the race card would be employed to bury that point - and that's exactly what's happening. It's sad that inner city blacks are so easily fooled and manipulated. Why, they are almost as gullible as the fudds, when it comes to guns and ammunition....almost.; March 8, 2015 at 1:27 PM
CowboyDan said...: Anon 0524, I was taught to at least put my foot down in the lot. I think a cop's kid wised me up to that.

Same principle, slightly different execution. Of course, if they want to stop you, they will, and if you piss them off badly enough, they will still have their way with you.

This is not the company our prents and teachers said it was going to be.; March 10, 2015 at 10:25 AM

"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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