Sipsey Street Irregulars: David Frum Blames Militarization of Police on Guns in Hands of "the Policed"

Thursday, August 21, 2014

David Frum Blames Militarization of Police on Guns in Hands of "the Policed"

"All for demilitarizing police. But remember, cops police a country in [which] more than 2 [million] AR-15s may be pointed at them."

Right. And I hope they damn well don't forget that little fact.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: If the cops are simply policing, then why would they mind the Citizenry owning 100 million rifles? They aren't doing anything wrong, right? Then what do they have to worry about?

I love it when indoctrination come full circle. Time for Frum to realize his error. We the People ALLOW the "police" to go armed while we each hold the inalienable right to 1) keep and bear arms AS WE CHOOSE and 2) hold due authority to limit ALL government to one revolver with a bullet only allowed in their pocket - and they must ask permission to chamber that one round.

You see, Peckerwood Frum, PEOPLE are the ultimate authority OVER government, not the other way around as you see it. Yes, we delegate authorities and policing is one area we do so willingly HOWEVER we do not and cannot delegate away inalienable rights get a clue Frum, people exercising their RIGHTS isn't WRONG.; August 21, 2014 at 9:50 AM
Sean said...: Exactamundo.; August 21, 2014 at 3:05 PM
Anonymous said...: This is the same clown who came up with the "axis of evil" line and pushed hard for the Iraq War. Why does anyone take a single thing he ever says seriously?; August 22, 2014 at 1:34 AM
William Flatt said...: Blaming private gun ownership for police militarization belies the tyrants' mindset... that the government is the master over the people and that government must have supremacy of coercive force over the people. The recent unrest in Ferguson illustrates this as well; you may protest as much as you like but the powers that be get bent when you use violence to resist their police state thuggery. They would have people believe that citizens have no right, but this is a lie.

I believe the shooting of that criminal punk in Ferguson was lawful and necessary, but the police response to the ensuing protest is the epitome of 'waco rules' and what you get when you cultivate a warrior mindset in cops and then equip them for war... then telling them that the citizenry is their enemy!

This simply proves the perpetual need for citizen militias in modern America!; August 26, 2014 at 12:19 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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