Comments on Pro Libertate: Liquidate Your Local Police: An Idea Whose Time Has Come (Updated, August 26)

Excellent journalism! Sad to say, this solution wo...

2011-08-31T00:51:23.425-06:00

Excellent journalism! Sad to say, this solution wouldn't exactly fly in Chicago and environs.

However, nearly 18 years ago, an Illinois political magazine printed a letter to the editor pointing out that some municipalities deserved to be liquidated. (The article was in response to the longstanding call of government consolidators in IL to get rid of townships, and consolidate them into the counties.) Here's the full piece.

JayLib

Just Liberty

Emissary, that is not the point. Too many of them ...

2011-08-30T19:18:25.979-06:00

Emissary, that is not the point. Too many of them are, just because you found one doesn't mean anything. Did it take you awhile to even find that one "hero" cop? No matter, one or two "good cops" does NOT in any way mitigate the damage or rage that has been done to thousands of innocent people. Maybe you should go suck up to cop.org

They are not all bad. http://www.policeone.com/...

2011-08-30T08:23:10.500-06:00

They are not all bad.

http://www.policeone.com/police-heroes/articles/4274230-Deputy-killed-in-crash-remembered-as-loving-dad/

"I have been a journalist for 30 years and ha...

2011-08-27T01:34:15.472-06:00

"I have been a journalist for 30 years and have done pretty well at it, and had best just leave it at that. Anything more could land me in trouble with my supervisors, and rightly so."

The phrase "pitiful, cuckolded castrato bitch" is inadequate in its offensiveness for describing this so-called "journalist." The same descriptive phrase applies to anyone who reads, listens to, and absorbs as truth anything that such a creature spews forth, out of whatever orifice.

Threw some seeds down in the spring and a couple c...

2011-08-26T15:00:08.094-06:00

Threw some seeds down in the spring and a couple cannabis plants grew off the back porch through the summer. Cut em down with at least 8 weeks left in the growth cycle because it was too nerve racking worrying about some donut vacuum drug whoriors (warriors my ass) raiding our humble abode. It is fun living in a freedom filled socialist utopia is it not comrade? Note to drug whoriors I'm on a proxy and smoked all the ill gotten gains of the evil cannabis plants so go have some more donuts and tell yourself you're a rough and tumble drug warrior.

Will, you would be pleased to hear that the small ...

2011-08-26T14:40:34.508-06:00

Will, you would be pleased to hear that the small town where my parents reside (Winslow, AR, pop approx 300) just recently turned down someone volunteering to work as an officer for free for two years. The mayor's exact words were 'We like things just the way they are.' So they only have state troopers out on the interstate and the ever rare sheriff's deputy. My dad says it's the most free place he's ever been.

Pig season is open all year long where I am.

2011-08-26T13:14:01.270-06:00

Pig season is open all year long where I am.

I used to live in a remote desert community. It wa...

2011-08-24T13:50:00.914-06:00

I used to live in a remote desert community. It was unincorporated, so looked to the county sheriff for "law enforcement." Not much to do out there, so it never got a regular patrol by anything but the CHP going through on the state highway. The sheriff's department did send someone out once a month to process anybody on probation. That was about it, though of course most of that was bogus crap too.

Folks in town talked about incorporating sometimes, but it never came to anything.

Sounds like New Rome (population 60), Ohio in the ...

2011-08-24T13:46:13.699-06:00

Sounds like New Rome (population 60), Ohio in the nineties.

Living in Baton Rouge,deep in the POICE STATE OF L...

2011-08-24T06:49:24.331-06:00

Living in Baton Rouge,deep in the POICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, it would take a miracle of biblical proportions to even get such a measure before the city council. One can only dream.

And out of Utah, we have this example of a double ...

2011-08-23T22:09:21.902-06:00

And out of Utah, we have this example of a double standard for police officers:

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=960&sid=16931943

Yeah, I'm going to have to speak at my city co...

2011-08-23T20:00:35.792-06:00

Yeah, I'm going to have to speak at my city council, also a very small town in Florida, and lobby to get the force dissolved. All they do is write tickets to out of towners and go to the gym, sometimes leaving their Dodge Chargers running with the AC on while they're in the gym

Allow me to be one of the first, William, to thank...

2011-08-23T15:41:51.971-06:00

Allow me to be one of the first, William, to thank you for publishing this upbeat, heartwarming story. Given the blood pressure-elevating nature of most of your (superb) works published here, this one was a very pleasant departure.

Of course there is a very dark cloud enveloped by this silver lining. The fact is that these “cashiered” cops are now free to assume “gypsy” status and migrate elsewhere to commit murder and mayhem against innocent citizens in other localities. Worse still is the possibility that, with other towns, in ever greater numbers, hopefully following the lead of Oak Hill, Maywood, and the others you cite, these cops will be forced to search for HONEST AND PRODUCTIVE GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT in the ever-shrinking private sector. Given that almost none of them are even remotely qualified for such work (which is why they became cops in the first place), once their backs are up against the wall and they become desperate and cornered, we will see a violent “blue crime wave” the likes of which is without precedent in Amerika, one that might even get sympathetic support from the blue-clad gangsters still on the official welfare roles.