Divides

Column by Jim Davies.

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Below is a photograph of a happy cop.

He's happy because at the end of a trying day, his team accomplished its mission; a suspected murderer had been arrested. He's also happy because behind him, a crowd of local residents, whom he thinks he “protects and serves,” is applauding him and his comrades for a job well done.

That doesn't often happen. As Gilbert & Sullivan wrote as long ago as 1879 (when cops generally were a good deal better liked than today), “A policeman's lot is not a happy one.” But these residents of Watertown, MA were glad, on the evening of April 19th 2013, that the team had succeeded, and they showed their appreciation, and the cops lapped it up. However politely their victims may interact at a traffic stop, they must know full well that under the surface, there is deep resentment simmering; but here, spontaneous applause broke out.

The grateful citizens had been under house arrest all day, and while after the event Governor Patrick called the lockdown a “request,” this video clip shows vividly how voluntary was the imprisonment. Architecture and uniforms aside, there is no ready way to show that this invasion was not a film of Nazi Jew-hunters rooting out a victim for the gas chambers in 1943.

And yet the prisoners were grateful to their captors, and thanked them heartily. I cannot recall another example of that taking place, anywhere or ever. The photo above graphically portrays “the sanction of the victims.” Some of us are horrified at the gratitude shown; a majority, I suspect, would have joined the applause. This is the great divide of our era.

That the cop was happy should not surprise us. Government people are human beings, and experience the same range of emotions that we all do. In fact, “government” doesn't really exist; there are only the people working for it. When those have been shown how utterly evil is the entity that employs them and quit in disgust, it will vanish. But the sanction of their victims should surprise us. It appalls me.

So the following day, I posted a comment to a major newspaper's site that began, “On Friday evening, the police were applauded in Watertown. I'm less impressed.” You can follow the resulting interaction of comments here, but that one drew 28 “recommendations” which was almost the highest score on that fast-moving page.

The divide is between those who trust or at least tolerate such government thuggery, and those who fear and oppose it. It's a useful test, of where someone presently stands.

The divide is an infinitely more important issue than the one that so easily distracts so many on the right side of it: whether or not there was some kind of conspiracy afoot, a false flag job. Perhaps there was; I'm astonished, for example, that this photo shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev upright, climbing out of David Henneberry's boat on his own, without assistance, despite reportedly suffering four life-threatening bullet wounds as well as exhaustion, thirst and hunger, after being shot at through the boat's fiberglass hull in a fusillade that turned it, in the owner's phrase, into “Swiss cheese”--and right after being stunned by several “flash-bang” grenades designed to subdue him. I too have a boat, and to leave it while high on the trailer is not a simple matter when perfectly fit; I usually stoop to get a hand hold on some part of the gunwale, to steady myself. So what gives? Plenty of other questions are not being answered, due to the usual arrogance of government spokesmen, so theorists are no doubt busy constructing conspiracies as I write.

That doesn't matter. Even if the entire Marathon murder scene was scripted by the FBI from soup to nuts so as to keep us all scared and dependent on those happy cops (whom Henneberry actually rescued from an embarrassing failure), it's not the point. The point is to dismantle government altogether, so that it no longer creates motivation all over the world for victims to retaliate against American targets, or ever again invades our homes.

There are those of us who are working to accomplish that, and there are those who are standing aside and doing little or nothing to help – or who are even pouring scorn on the attempt, as "nattering nabobs of negativism."

That's another great divide of our time.

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Jim Davies is a retired businessman in New Hampshire who led the development of an on-line school of liberty in 2006, and who wrote A Vision of Liberty" , "Transition to Liberty" and, in 2010, "Denial of Liberty" and "To FREEDOM from Fascism, America!" He started The Zero Government Blog in the same year.
In 2012 Jim launched http://TinyURL.com/QuitGov , to help lead government workers to an honest life.
In 2013 he wrote his fifth book, a concise and rational introduction to the Christian religion called "Which Church (if any)?" and in 2016, an unraveling of the great paradox of "income tax law" with "How Government Silenced Irwin Schiff."

Comments

Mark Davis's picture

Well said Jim, I've been thinking the same thing.  The gap is getting wider between those people having a child-like trust of state agents and those having a profound distrust of same with fewer in the middle.  The primary difference, IMO, is the degree to which one is able and willing to think for themselves vs. those that simply defer to "officials" and authority figures to decide what is "true" for them. 

Glock27's picture

Never let a good crisis go to waste! And I am sure it will not.

Douglas Herman's picture

Good one, Jim.
Boston & Watertown looked to me like a successful Template, a perfect diagram for the NWO. But then what do I know? I'm just one of those looney conspiracy theorists ... who prefer facts to fanciful pronouncements of guilt from the police and the MSM....and subsequent pretrial execution of the alleged criminals.
Keep up the good work-!
Doug

jd-in-georgia's picture

The truth is scary, Jim. I did read several of those comments in response to your opinion on the Guardian article. I don't know which is worse: the keystone cop antics with live bullets at local taxpayer expense or the seemingly total compliance by the residents of Boston and Watertown who happen to pay the salaries of these jackbooted thugs?

Jim Davies's picture

Of the two, IMO the compliance is by far the scariest. Without support, government collapses; and so far, they have plenty.
 
I was quite encouraged, though, by the general tone of the Guardian comments. That journal is wall to wall statist, yet very many (a majority, even?) of comments were more or less critical of government. One thoughtful and articulate reader did try to rebut mine, and I answered him point by point as perhaps you saw.
 
Government will not be abolished  by majority vote, but I'd say this is one indicator that support for it is seriously eroding. But no, not in Watertown. Not yet.