11-18-2021, 06:29 PM
(11-18-2021, 06:06 PM)ABNARTY Wrote: How is this not feeding into a degradation of law and order? We had the cops standing down and allowing arson and destruction. The governor refusing help until a week later. The prosecutor all over the map. The media gas lighting the entire situation. To what end? Qui bono?
And therein lies the rub. While the "authorities" were standing down and allowing all sorts of insane destruction, the People stepped in to do their damned jobs FOR them, and are now being branded "vigilantes". well shit, when someone doesn't do their job, someone else has to step in and do it.
That was THEIR homes, THEIR businesses, THEIR friends and families, THEIR livelihoods. If the people they hired to protect those thing refused to do so, then it fell to THEM to do it for themselves. When that is the case, it's not "vigilantism", it's doing the job their hirelings refused to do, a job that need doing, regardless of who has to do it.
Whomever was responsible for standing down law and order should be summarily fired, jailed for official malfeasance, and barred from ever holding a position above that of ditch digger ever again.
Instead, the Talking heads carry on about "vigilantes".
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’