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August 25, 2020
What Will Replace the Police? Ten Historical ExamplesBy Robert Oscar Lopez
The future of local police departments has become a top election issue. Rasmussen released recent polls showing that Americans pay close attention to debates about law and order. For instance, 50% of likely voters want to see harder crackdowns on urban unrest, while only 38% support continuing protests in cities. Overall, 72% are concerned about recent reports of urban violence. Over 60% of Americans said their feelings about the protests will have an effect on their November voting.
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1. The Spanish Inquisition - Inquisition courts began long before the fifteenth century, but they took a special form under the leadership of Torquemada.
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2. The French Terror - In rejecting the Bourbon order, French revolutionaries, particularly the Jacobins, wanted to do away with the guards and prisons associated with kings and aristocrats. Several alternatives arose, such as the famous "Committee of Public Safety."
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3. The Gestapo - Seventy-five years ago, shortly after losing his office to the Labor Party, Winston Churchill said in a speech, "No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent[.] ... They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed [as] in the first instance."...
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4. The Harper Valley PTA - Less ominous but still troubling is the possibility that Democrats will replace police departments with snooping prudes like the ones described in the sixties classic "Harper Valley PTA." In the song, "The note says, Mrs. Johnson, you're wearing your dresses way too high."...
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5. The Scarlet Letter - Before you rush to reassign police duties to community elders and "healers," reread Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic about seventeenth-century Massachusetts. ...
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6. Ingsoc - Winston Smith, the main character in George Orwell's unforgettable 1984, works for an entity that wants to instill love with no visceral discord. The book closes, after all, with Winston saying he loves Big Brother and embraces all the rules and regulations of the dystopian state. To arrive at such a feeling of love, he is monitored by government agents, stripped of his privacy, trapped in "Room 101," and ritually tortured until he has a massive breakdown. ...
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7. The Manson Family - The leftists who decry police brutality often romanticize community. They do this even as they follow the lead of Marx's Communist Manifesto and reject nuclear families. Black Lives Matter, for instance, rejects "patriarchal practice," seeks to "disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement," and envisions family as the "global Black family."...
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8. The Symbionese Liberation Army - When leftists talk about defunding the police, remember that they don't want the police's work to disappear; they want to transfer that work elsewhere. There is always the possibility that the transferred duties will include armed and violent enforcement....
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9. The Ku Klux Klan - One of the most difficult truths about Jim Crow history is the rationale behind founding the Ku Klux Klan in 1865. After the Civil War, some Southerners came to hate what they saw as a police state....
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10. Jonestown - Calls to defund or abolish the police always spring from utopian dreams. To dream of a world without the local police department is to dream about another plane of existence, where people magically coexist, cooperate, and treat each other well....
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A world without cops: dream or nightmare?We do not have to depend on the imagination to envision a world without a local police department. The things that we need police for — security, enforcement, investigation, discipline — do not go away when you eliminate local constabularies. These tasks slide into the hands of other social forces, which almost always function without transparency, due process, or consistency. They are never less violent or more merciful to those who break a society's value system.
Because Democrats cannot, in any realistic scenario, uncouple themselves from the "Defund the Police" movement, they have nowhere to go but down, all the way to the bottom of the sea. The question is whether they will take the rest of us with them or not. One thing will determine whether they sink alone or sink us, too — who wins the November election.
You know, this was a very well thought out discussion on possible replacements to our Police forces...
Of all of the systems that might replace, which of the above examples is the best option???
I think we are better with what we have in our society today. Yes, there are people within the Police forces that should NOT be in such positions of power over others...But, we can only constantly strive to better the forces and maintain as equal and balanced of a force for good over evil as possible.
But the alternatives are ..... DAUNTING to imagine...
After reading this, and knowing a bit of history about each group, Our cities could be overrun with "Gestapo-like" or "KKK" like actions upon the public.
I also would like to submit the type of policing that happens in many middle eastern cultures by the radical theologians that run their own territories...
We as a people in the USA are already beginning to be forced to wear "Facial Coverings"
(breathing masks that cover our noses and faces, sure to prevent infections....right).... How much longer before we need to wear full burkha like clothing in public?
TRUST THE PLAN - Q