The rule of law.

Posted by Pointman on August 17, 2018 · 42 Comments 

There’s a pseudo-modern day idea that as long as you hate someone else’s politics enough, you can be free to physically molest and attack them. In some instances, most specifically antifa, the police have obviously been instructed to allow it and in fact to turn a blind eye to it happening. It’s only a matter of time until people are going to start getting killed in that spiral of hysteria. It’s basic broken window theory. Nobody likes having their opinion so brutally suppressed, so they’ll start to fight back.

When you hear of a black woman like Candace Owens hounded out of a restaurant by a mob of screaming white people, you know it’s all going a bit early 1960s retro. Shades of Birmingham Alabama in the bad old days. Get the nigger out of the restaurant. Don’t talk, just open up with the high power hoses, set the attack dogs on them and finally move in with the night sticks to beat the shit out of them.

Bizarrely,  left-wingers of today are increasingly looking and acting like the repressive southern conservatives of a half century ago. Dialogue is simply not on the table, but only as much physical violence as you can deliver, because the police won’t interfere. Call anyone who doesn’t share your politics a fascist and then punch them in the face.

That’s what the political left has devolved down to nowadays, but while it apparently plays very well on social media and the internet, what’s too often unrecognised is the vast majority of consumers of those media are readers who don’t comment. They read and take away their own thoughts on such events. The extremist left may think they’ve just won a great victory in brutal acts of intimidation like that and are leaping into the air doing high fives, but actually they haven’t achieved anything.

As an example, this blog has about eight hundred subscribers, but I’d say only fifteen to twenty regular commenters. I’m fine with that. Most people who come here are readers I think, and with an attention span far exceeding the usual internet twenty seconds before they surf out. I write for my own personal interest and pleasure but I’m always aware of those silent readers and it influences the lick of style, but never the content of this blog. If I wanted to pump up the blog’s hit and subscriber numbers, I know the changes I’d have to make, but it wouldn’t be the sort of blog I’d want to read.

Such extremist behaviour by the left is slowly but steadily alienating them from the political middle, and that’ll show up every time people get into the privacy of a voting booth, because once in there your opinions can’t be howled down by a braying mob. What they can’t seem to get through their head is that most people aren’t politically engaged, but when they see extreme behaviour like that, all they see are a bunch of louts they dislike, and that won’t garner you any votes. Quite the opposite actually. They’ll vote against you.

When policing becomes selective and allows itself to become an indirect political tool, you’re one step away from vigilantism. Trust has been lost. The whole concept of the law being applied equally and what used to be called policing by consent goes in the dust bin and it becomes a case of regarding what used to be the local cops as the enemy. That’s not a good situation for any of us, both police and public, to arrive at.

In a similar sense, the politicisation of the FBI and the DoJ by eight years of the Obama administration has not only severely damaged their reputation, but more importantly trust in them has been lost. There’s a big rebuild job to be done there.

Once people perceive that the police have been ordered to stand down, they know they’re on their ownsome. It’s time to apply for that concealed carry permit. But all you get from that is a gun with none of the training. It’s only in the movies that everybody is a sharp shooter. In reality it’s mostly just blasting away, centre body mass stuff, without a thought to what’s in the background if you happen to miss, and you’d be amazed at how many rounds can be fired in a room without a single one hitting anyone in it.

This is not a hit piece on cops, whom I’ve too much regard for, but rather the creeping politicisation of their role in the fabric of our society. They’re our Hector the Protector and do a job few would continue in unless you have that protective instinct.

A long time ago, before there was any counseling courses or awareness training, I once saw a cop sitting on a couch place a small throw cushion on his lap so an exhausted and distressed woman sitting beside him could place her head on it. She’d just been raped, and this was back in the bad old days when it was invariably blamed on the woman for being too forward, but he stroked her hair and kept tapping her on the back and saying there there, there there until she fell asleep. It was all he could do for her at that moment in time. Some stuff you see gets burnt into your memory.

London has become an exemplar of this abandonment of the rule of law in favour of some notion of political correctness. It has an incompetent police commissioner who got the job before more experienced candidates just because she’s a lesbian, but it’s obvious she’s totally out of her depth. She’s taking orders from a Muslim mayor who by reflex plays the minority race card every time, and as a result control of the streets has been totally lost. Murder rate, stabbings, acid attacks, terrorist attacks, rape et al are all going through the roof.

The cops? Well, they’ve not got one hand tied behind their backs, but two. When you’re not allowed to enforce the law, there doesn’t seem much point in being a policeman.

The older hands are all heading for the early retirement exit door while the younger ones are all looking at employment opportunities in the private sector in areas like corporate security. The pay there is a lot better, lots better. A few hang on in, hoping for a change back to some real leadership. But the majority learn to play they game; just enforce the law in whatever way is currently fashionable in upper management and to hell with any notion of applying it equally.

I think things are going to have to get a lot worse before the situation starts improving, but it will in the end.

Once you start playing political games with the rule of law, things devolve very quickly. In the space of three or four years, London has become known as shithole London and not somewhere you’d want to be. Violent street crime is escalating on a weekly basis and there’s only two ways it’ll end. Either in a fierce crackdown on crime and a return to normal policing, which’ll be demanded by angry Londoners, or they’ll go in the vigilante direction and do it for themselves.

If the rule of law is not allowed to be enforced without fear or favour, then there is no law, so don’t be surprised at the anarchy that results.

©Pointman

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