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If you elect the wrong people to office that is what you get.


That comment is true but as less than 50% of the population actually vote... no matter who we vote for, it doesn't seem to make any difference.

If you commit a real crime it doesn't seem to matter. The human rights of the criminal are paramount apparently.

There recently was a case of a man who sexually assaulted a 3 year old and could be out in 5 years...that has caused uproar, but will anything get done about it??? Probably not.


However, don't speed, go through a red light, or anything else where there's no 'victim' as they'll throw the book at you.

Looks like the worst crime is to flout the authority of the state. Minor violations that show less than a complete deference to the authorities right to regulate your life are punished swiftly and surely. On the other hand, violating the rights of private citizens can be tolerated as it does not threaten the prerogatives of the state. Mugging a private citizen is tolerable, but since law enforcement and punishment are state functions, vigorously defending yourself from a mugger is not. Raping a child does not threaten the sovereignty of the state but speeding apparently does. I was recently talking with a friend who is the police chief in a neighboring town. I joked with him that if I called 911 and said that an armed intruder was in my home I’d be put on hold, but that if I said “I’ve locked myself in my home, I have a gun and I’m not coming out,” the police would be right over to make me surrender. The scary thing is that he agreed!

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.