Are police necessary? Although this existential question often produces a knee-jerk ‘of course they are, who would protect us?’ a growing call for the abolition of police — and working examples to back it up — deserves more than scornful dismissal, particularly amid epidemic-level violence by agents of the state.
Police are under no obligation to protect the public they putatively serve — a series of state and Supreme Court decisions stretching back more than three decades indisputably establish this fact — so the lingering question, ‘who will protect us?’ is of no consequence to the case for dismantling every police department in the nation.
On the
contrary, police kill, maim, intimidate, harass, and generally brutalize
the citizenry with alarming frequency — and rarely face consequences
beyond a
paid vacation farcically termed ‘administrative leave’ for doing so.
Rather
than fight and solve violent crimes, police act as little more than
heavily militarized code-enforcers, or as David Graeber of the London
School of Economics aptly
terms,
“bureaucrats with weapons”
— protecting us from broken tail lights, missing front license plates,
and imperfect lane changes more often than from robbery, homicide, and
rape. ...
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As Hillary Clinton’s health continues to be an issue in the final weeks of this year’s presidential contest, there is suddenly a focus on the Democrat’s “mysterious” eye movements during a speech Monday in Philadelphia.
“Hillary’s eyes appeared not in-sync with one another, as the left eye looked to be cock-eyed and displaced, especially as she looked towards the left,” noted John Binder of the American Mirror. The ocular phenomenon even prompted the popular Drudge Report to splash a banner headline reading, “Unfocused.” It featured a black-and-white still shot from Clinton’s appearance. Clinton’s speech in Philadelphia came the same day two doctors told WND the Democratic Party nominee is suffering a serious neurological disease that should disqualify her from being president. ... MORE
