Liberty’s Twilight - 13may20

George Rebane

Breonna Taylor was shot and killed in her Louisville, KY home when the police erroneously broke through her front door in the middle of the night seeking a narcotics suspect who was already in police custody.  Not knowing the invaders during the break-in, Ms Taylor’s boyfriend sought to defend themselves by shooting one of the assailants in the leg.  In the following melee the other police officers returned fire, pumping eight rounds into Ms Taylor and killing her.  Her boyfriend was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of a police officer.  The family is now suing the police department (more here).

Over the years we have lost count of this kind of mistaken killings of innocents by incompetent law enforcement agencies.  But that is not the real point here.  What’s germane is that our homes are no longer our castles.  We have no right to defend ourselves within the confines of our own four walls when LE executes one of its surprise assaults into our living quarters, our most inner sanctums.  These unnecessary attacks mimic criminal home invasions which now, according to the ever-growing leviathan, put the onus on the home owner to ascertain the identity of those breaking through his front door BEFORE he is allowed to start defending himself.  The assailant now has the de jure right to take the first shots at the victim.  And only after the assailant’s identity has been confirmed by the victim, can his defense begin.  Moreover, in some states it’s not even legal to ‘stand your ground’ in your own house if it is later determined that you could have retreated out of the back door or an open window.  The law has been stood on its head, and we sheeple must comply.

In a practical sense, there is never a need for LE to ambush someone with deadly force in a known residence.  The state always has the resources to surround the habitat and then make their presence known.  LE officers breaking and entering in the middle of the night is now an established tactic of state thuggery.  According to our Constitution and Rebane Doctrine, an American has every right to initiate the use of deadly force against any unidentified assailant who forcefully enters his home.  And an innocent man being accused of attempted murder of a police officer after such an incident is the beyond-cynical elimination of the last vestiges of justice that should be brought to bear after such a tragic incident.  Our quiet acceptance of these proceedings, just because it happened in distant Louisville, is testimony to how inured we all have become to the growth of our autocratic governments in these United States.

We have witnessed, nay, succumbed to encroaching state autocracy over the recent decades.  We no longer question when the latest dictum comes down from our handlers – we just quietly do whatever we’re told.  Our response to the coronavirus pandemic is currently the national Exhibit A of how unquestioningly we toe the line when told to do so.  We have been educated that once some decree is issued for ‘the common good’ because ‘we’re all in this together’,  then somehow our gumption to think for ourselves just shuts down – we just accept and make do, as our leaders pat us on the back for being unquestioningly compliant.

The champions of socialism are very aware of the opportunities such habituated compliance provides them today in their tireless efforts to fundamentally transform America.  Socialism cannot exist, let alone grow, without the underpinnigs of state autocracy.  Socialism’s fundamental tenet is the imposition of one-size-fits-all under the guise of ‘social justice’.  While never achieved, this OSFA propaganda is a useful tool to selectively project power, because it is the state which determines what the ‘size’ is that is supposed to fit the ‘all’ of which you find yourself a member.  Pointing out blaring inconsistencies in the applications of OSFA focuses the attention of the state and its loyal lackies on suppressing such expressions and identifying the recalcitrant as a social misfit cum ‘enemy of the people’.

What we’re not supposed to think about is that collectivism’s central planning and control does not work and is patently unnatural.  Nature abandoned large-scale central control and knowledge eons ago – such an approach to organizing life never made to evolution’s first base, and today we know the science that explains why (covered for years in these pages).  Nature promotes specialization, entrepreneurship, and risk taking - one size never fits all.  The imposition of ever more suppressive forms of collectivism, starting with soft socialism that relentlessly proceeds through autocracy to tyranny, is totally against every teaching of science.  Nature’s secret for sustainable complex systems comprising life and societies is through distributed knowledge and control – lots of subsystems peerage.

We see evidence of this all over, now highlighted by the attempts to ‘control’ C19.  An automatic response by countries has been to break into smaller and manageable units of governance by closing borders and controlling border crossings as witnessed in the EU.  On the other end of autocracy we see a strong correlation between the prevalence of infectious diseases and the degree to which authoritarian beliefs are practiced in various regions/locales.  Here is a comprehensive report on the study of ‘Pathogens and Politics: Further Evidence That Parasite Prevalence Predicts Authoritarianism’ from the National Institutes of Health.

The bottom line is that what the nation’s socialists are attempting to sell America on is both dysfunctional and evil.  Look no further than the published objectives for new legislation by our Left, and underlined by the latest bill (Heroes Act) from Team Pelosi for dispensing another $3T in federal aid with strings that have nothing to do with the current pandemic – just another crisis not to be wasted (more here, here, and here).  And the common denominator of it all is the continuing wholesale retreat of our liberties.

Comments

[Bonnie]

Don’t they have to have a warrant? It might help law enforcement know they have the right house and people involved before they break in, the shooting starts and innocent people are killed.

[scenes]

"Don’t they have to have a warrant?"

I believe there are a number of exceptions. Emergencies/hot pursuit. Consent from searchee. Plain view for things not on the warrant.

George's article got me to thinking about the history of policing. It's a fairly new concept (as are prisons) and, as you might expect, it's pretty likely that police under pressure will often act in terms of their safety, not yours. One interesting side effect looks to be the use of massive overkill (probably not the best term) in resources. A traffic stop can result in five police cars, a home search requires an infantry squad, rather than simply a guy with a .38 revolver.

Dunno exactly why it has turned into such a large industry. The newish concept of illegal drugs? The birth of traffic control? Risk intolerance by the general public? Urbanization? This last is where it usually starts. At least we've mostly avoided the additional reasons that socialists always build such huge law enforcement apparatus, black markets and political crimes. You can expect more of that in the future I think.

[Scott O]

Bonnie 10:30 - "Don’t they have to have a warrant?"
Sure - a 'no-knock' warrant.
I can remember when these were starting to be used in large numbers because those darn hippies would just flush their joints down the toilet if the police had to announce their presence first before entering.
I knew darn well back then this was going to lead to nothing but trouble.
Plenty of innocent citizens and quite a few officers have lost their lives due to this stupidity.