Police: A breach on our rights
For about the past four days in Auburn, where I live, there's been an astonishing increase in police. Every two blocks, there'll be a police car parked just waiting for you to slip up. Even if you don't slip up, they can still pull you over and detain you for an hour. If you drive off you'll get arrested, and if you resist, the policeman is given the right to shoot you. What is this but a breach of an individuals freedom? If the number of police keeps increasing at it's current rate in Auburn, at what point to do you think a person will stand up in public and say "I proclaim there to be too many police in Auburn Alabama!"? The answer is... never. Nobody would ever publically say that they think there are too many police in Auburn. I think there are two reasons for this.
Number one would be that, quite simply, they would get arrested. And nobody would be able to do anything about it.
Number two is that people always seem to think that security=more police. They seem to believe that if a town has a low crime rate, it must be because there are lots of police hanging around. When, in fact, security has to provided privately, otherwise it's useless.
Police here, are also starting to give out tickets for unbuckled seatbelts. People can make decisions for themselves, and they shouldn't be punished if they make that a decision that harms no one else, but disagrees with what our government thinks is best. Also, if cars came with huge spikes coming out of the stearing wheels, do you think people would drive more or less carefully? Maybe the same principle would apply to seatbelts, hmm?
The whole idea of the police controlling people decisons, goes against what principles that this country was built on, and breaches our rights.
A very wonderful book named 'Time Will Run Back'(available for sale HERE and for reading online HERE ) by Henry Hazlitt discusses many of the points just made. It's actually a Novel about the son of a dictator who had lived away from his father all his life, and comes to live with him for the first time when he's about 20. Then, when his father dies he becomes ruler of his father's empire, and has to rediscover capitalism, with no help from previous writings at all, because all records containing all mention of capitalism have been erased. It's painful and humorous at the same time, and one of the best and most interesting books I've ever read.
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What I find most annoying about cops are those stupid and random speed limits they enforce. On my way to work, I drive for about four miles on the highway, three at 55 mph, then the last at 45. Usually my father, the ex-cop, is in the car and refuses to let us drive a single mph above the limit. Everybody on the road passes us when we slow down at the 45 zone. Several of them get pulled over and charged outrageous fees for doing so. Why? Why does the speed limit have to be so low in the first place? It's a highway after all. And who stands to benefit from these ridiculously low speed limits? Cops drive me nuts, and don't even get me started on the insurance!
I've seen cops play the little 'power game' where they follow a car for forever for no reason other than just to scare them, then just speed past them.
That's freaky; I've been on the highway, just getting on an exit, and then out of nowhere, some cop gets right up on my bumper and stays there! Scary stuff.
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