Sipsey Street Irregulars: D.C. prosecutors give hero a break: 'Only' $1000 fine for saving child's life

Thursday, May 23, 2013

D.C. prosecutors give hero a break: 'Only' $1000 fine for saving child's life

Here's the thing. A law that has to be broken in order to save the life of a child--to prevent him from being torn apart by vicious dogs--is very likely an evil law. And a "justice" system that punishes a man (even if "only" by fining him) for being a lifesaving hero--is institutionalized evil. Why, as a (theoretically) free citizen, does any American tolerate this?

9 comments:

Anonymous said...: NO! What part of the word N-O do you NOT understand!

"I don't think I'll let you arrest me today, Sheriff".
Wyatt Earp to Sheriff Behan, "Tombstone", (1993)

B Woodman
III-per; May 23, 2013 at 9:44 AM
Anonymous said...: Stalin, Mao and Hitler would be proud of this prosecutor.

chevy; May 23, 2013 at 10:56 AM
Anonymous said...: I've started keeping my own little list of "Intolerable Acts". This is on it.; May 23, 2013 at 11:59 AM
William Flatt said...: How do so many Americans tolerate this? The same way that Germans tolerated the development of Hitler's Nazi staat.

The power of state coercion is most effective when it actually generates fear in the people. Take away that fear, and the state loses one of its best weapons.

Like Evey in 'V for Vendetta', once we shed our fear of the police state, there is nothing they can do that will deter the brave from destroying the accursed machine.

Let's hope that this gentleman has the courage to refuse to pay, and that his fellow citizens back his play... and not let the police state take him away.

Of course, this is why we have guns.; May 23, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Paul X said...: Yeah, sure, it's institutionalized evil. Guess what you get with government institutions? It's not just in DC folks. It's in the structure of government institutions, every one of them based fundamentally on violence. Try to imagine some way of having these institutions without getting the evil along with it. I sure can't...; May 23, 2013 at 12:56 PM
Anonymous said...: Anonymous @9:59
I've run out of fucking paper.; May 24, 2013 at 12:34 AM
Anonymous said...: Its time to start BREAKING these illegitimate "laws" each and every chance we get,on purpose,and with zeal.

Carry guns without permission.

Own guns that aren't "allowed".

Sell guns to whomever you like.

When the "law" becomes evil,good men DISOBEY.

"We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did
in Germany was 'legal' and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did
in Hungary was 'illegal.'" --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968); May 24, 2013 at 2:04 AM
J. Travis said...: I'll bet he doesn't do THAT, again!

Darn scofflaws!; May 24, 2013 at 2:24 AM
Anonymous said...: Mr. Srigley (the owner of the firearms) should go before the media and make it known that if ever faced with this choice again, he'll just let the child be mauled to death.

Maybe then the idiots will see the folly of their 'laws'....but I doubt it.; May 24, 2013 at 12:49 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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