Amen, Danny.

No one will ever be able to persuade me that the present situation is better than anarchy.

I’d take my chances on self-defense rather than have to suffer legally-sanctioned mafias any day.

When one reads stories like this, the only conclusion is that society is fucked.

They only tried to burn down Brian Westberry’s house instead of Fire Bombing the entire neighborhood.

The state would lose is core domestic justification without a durable threat of criminal predation against the revenue-producing members of society. Thus, while the state has a keen interest in constantly “fighting” crime, it has no interest in effectively suppressing crime. The robust underworld culture of criminal behavior that is enriched by our supersized prison system, our illegal vice industry, and our widespread child poverty sustains a governmental law enforcement enterprise that is completely out of scale to the rest of our society. Our political leadership has absolutely no intention of allowing reforms that would facilitate a downscaling of our criminal justice apparatus to levels of comparably developed nations in other parts of the world.

In this context, it should not come as a surprise that so many law enforcement officials are revealed to have the same mentality, and to engage in the same behaviors, as acknowledged criminal predators.

Eyes that close together suggest some serious inbreeding.