When the mass arrests begin, we'll be unable to organize a resistance and our cops will be working for the Bolsheviks rounding us up. We have ourselves to thank for that and our insane War on Drugs.
Great expose of how the War on Drugs is playing out in small town America.
Living in British Columbia (Canada), I can report that the “hands off” approach to policing drug offences has created another set of problems. Even though I live in the middle of nowhere, I personally know 3 people who are in “rehab” for drug and/or alcohol addiction.
They are all in their 40s. One guy is a relatively harmless person, really hurting no one other than himself (although breaking his family’s hearts). The second guy has had brushes with the law – mostly traffic offences like driving impaired or driving without a license. Dangerous, but to date he has mostly hurt himself with his drug problems.
The third person – a woman I’ll call “Nicky,” is a walking disaster. She is in rehab for the 17th time. Yes, seventeenth, 1-7. She considers going to rehab a kind of holiday. I am not making this up. She usually gets by through whoring, stealing, and fraud.
Nicky is half-native (I refuse to use that PC term “First Nations”) and she plays that card to the hilt. She was living at a friend’s place for a while after she gave birth to her 5th kid (the previous four have all been taken away by the state), and after an altercation with my friend (also a woman), she stabbed my friend not once, but twice, with a kitchen knife. Nicky was holding her baby when she picked up the kitchen knife and stabbed my friend.
The wounds didn’t go too deep, and my friend decided not to report it to police. A couple of months later, Nicky moved out to a woman’s shelter; when my friend dropped by the shelter to drop off Nicky’s things, she was confronted by shelter staff in the parking lot and told that she couldn’t stay on the premises because Nicky was “scared” of her.
Obviously, Nicky is somewhat of an exceptional case – but I tell the story to illustrate that neither heavy-handed policing, nor soft and mushy “counselling,” is going to solve our problems. I guess the common thread between the two approaches is that it is government workers (law enforcement and social services) doing the behest of our overlords who are “benefitting” (in the short term) from how we are approaching the drug problem.
Why fix the problem when the problem pays your salary?
The recovered addicts I've known have all told me the same thing: you get over an addiction because of your own work, not someone else's. And of course we have to have a society worth living in for people to want to get over their addictions in the first place.
I think your last sentence is key. That was the impetus behind the boxing club I was starting in Lexington, Missouri. Not to change our sick society, but to change the impact of our sick society on its victims. Within three weeks of getting the keys to the facility and the lights turned on the SPLC heard about it and published a broadside that blew the project out of the water. They have a lot of power.
The program wasn't limited to drug addicts but that population would definitely have been a likely source of clients.
During the course of the lawsuit I brought against the SPLC, they hired an expert witness to give his opinion that our approach wouldn't "work." Here is my rebuttal:
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim."
Good on you, Craig, for keeping your cool during that "traffic stop." Really speaks to the need for us to each be grounded in who we are at our core to deal with that kind of BS.
Seems like the War on Drugs ended when every female role model in my life was telling me to yield to peer pressure and follow the crowd of lemmings off the cliff by getting an unproven drug injected into my body to protect me from a cold virus. When I said "why should I do that?" they said "because you could win a million dollars!" Later they informed me that I wanted to kill grandma.
I recently rented to one of the local investigators of our police force. He was one of the worst renters I have ever had and he was being given a deal because of his hero status It took us 9 months of threats to garnish his wages and a meeting with his boss to get him out and he is still paying arrears 6 months later.
Craig. I suggest that you read "Downtown White Police" by James Lancia. This book covers a lot and is an entertaining read. Explains also the militarisation of police forces and the goal of TPTB.
If you've seen the movie "Chopper" starring Eric Bana as the criminal Chopper Reed (great film).
Well the real Chopper Reed wrote a book about his life of crime. The Australian government confiscated all the profits of this best seller as "profits from the proceeds of crime" which is a real crime IMHO
" The Australian government confiscated all the profits of this best seller as "profits from the proceeds of crime"
That's really obscene. When I read something like that my first though often is "how are we putting up with this?" But there are, no doubt, many who would read about that it would make sense to them. My second thought, then, is "democracy just can't work."
For America it is to eventually get rid of local police departments and have more centralised police in order to further depersonalise any relationship between cop and citizen. (ie ; a totally Federal police force. (here in Australia each State has one police force and now these ridiculous black clad body armoured "Riot Squad" cops used to brutally suppress any dissent ordinary people may feel. They have military style armoured vehicles and high power rubber bullet guns to shoot Granny with. Then there's the Special Operations pseudo soldiers to unleash if things get out of hand. The ordinary cops are fully kitted out like soldiers too.)
I remember when police wore collar and tie and actually looked human.
Anyway, In his book Lancia gets into politics, the anti gun, anti white narrative etc etc leading to where we are now heading. Well worth a read.
The po po will perform for their paymasters, same as it ever was.
The good news is police have the worst morale of any government military when it comes to any real conflict; recall how they became looters, didn’t come to work, and slaughtered civilians during Katrina.
I agree with all of your premises. But, I would offer a glimmer of hope in that their limited numbers, combined with the unprecedented speed of communications, might serve as a speed bump that provides enough time for anyone not caught up in the first wave of knocks to prepare their chosen response.
Absent the ability to effect a total blackout on communications, the moment a “round up” or systematic door knocks start going down, word will spread and give those who might choose to do so a window of opportunity to exercise some sort of reciprocal agency (whatever form that might take).
If something like you describe is to happen and be effective at the scale necessary to subdue the “deplorables” and “ungovernables” it is going to require outside assistance.
My personal favorite dystopian speculation is that COVID was designed to narrow down the areas where the most resistance will be found, and version 2.0 will involve the importation of foreign forces (to include deputization of the hordes or military aged males being imported wholesale) to serve as muscle under auspices of WHO-related regulations and treaties that subordinate national sovereignty to international decrees. That would give them the numbers to act in force.
I, of course, (to blatantly rip off one of my favorite Substackers, Rurik Skywalker) go wherever the wind blows and have no convictions other than figuring out what is popular to believe in and believing in it louder than everyone else like every moral person ought to be doing as well.
"My personal favorite dystopian speculation is that COVID was designed to narrow down the areas where the most resistance will be found, and version 2.0 will involve the importation of foreign forces (to include deputization of the hordes or military aged males being imported wholesale)"
Right, or a combination of the two. 1) We have no idea which vaccines went where and what was in every shipment, 2) it wouldn't even be necessary to deputize, just transport and turn loose (which is already being done). When they took control of Russia, they let roving gangs of Chinese, Latvian, and Korean bandits, thugs, and criminals prey on the (disarmed) Russians with impunity. In the camps, they let regular criminals prey on the political prisoners. It was to help break the back of the Russian people.
It is a huge shame on us that the rest of Christendom just stood aside and let it happen. And then we ended up allying with them against Germany. Incredible. Yet, today, our military is bombing Yemen to protect Israel's genocide of the Palestinians while we are being overrun in our own countries.
"It is a huge shame on us that the rest of Christendom just stood aside and let it [the Bolshevik Revolution] happen. And then we ended up allying with them against Germany."
Great to see the connection being made between what was done to Russia/Ukraine by the Jews in 1917 to what was done to Germany by the Jews in 1939.
As far as confiscation goes, i don't expect a large push. It will be death by a thousand cuts. [They] will take out individuals and small groups over a long stretch.
I live in a small town but near a big city. I am familiar with police in both areas (not personally or professionally, just as an observer). I have noted the same characteristics about small town police. They really go overboard. Big city police have their own set of problems, old and new, but corruption always.
All police, at a minimum are [legalized] highway bandits - they lie in wait to apprehend you and take your money to generate revenue for the state and pad their professional stats. Quotas are real. At worst, they'll bring up any probable cause to take whatever you may have on your person or fine the shit out of you. If you're really unlucky, they'll plant some illegal thing and haul you off if they want. All these things are widespread, ongoing and verifiable actions by our "law enforcement professionals." And it's all done quietly, but they ALL know. If you're a "good cop" and you know about the "bad cops" and don't do anything about it, you're neither a good cop nor a good person. As far as i can tell, any person who signs up to enforce bad laws on the public is a bad person. There. I said it.
And you can bet they'll side with those who sign their paychecks, almost to a man - whether it be county, city, or state level when SHTF.
I "might" give a pass to Sheriff's departments on the principle that it's an "elected position" and thus more accountable to the people. In theory, this is the only way to go, but "police" departments are part of a bureaucracy that receives funding from central banks. and they're aligned directly with "the government" as such. I am also aware that "elections" are easily and almost always rigged, so there is that. YMMV. Pay attention to what your local Sheriff is doing.
Recreational drug use is a victimless crime? That's a silly idea. Drug users subvert trust and, therefore, subvert community. Only fools respect or trust boozers, pot heads, dope fiends, acid trippers, and so on. Most users have shitty judgement, too, which is why they turn to drugs to "feel good" as you put it. Their destructiveness is often manifest as needless accidents, ruined relationships, fights with strangers, and destructive rampages against property. Drug users are trash.
So what ought we to do with them? A better solution would be to declare drug users rightless. You could punch them, kick them, spray their eyes with pepper acid, and take their possessions, but they would have no basis under law to file a complaint against you. Moreover, it would be criminal per se to defend theirselves or their property. The same strategy could be used for drug makers and drug dealers.
Just imagine the volume of cops and so-called laws which could be buried and forgotten once this approach is followed. Imagine also the ferocity with which bad "white" people would destroy each other under this regime, esp. when Christians, too, are deemed rightless, just like any ordinary vermin.
Now, we all know the boot licker solution (which is almost like calling it the Christian solution) works poorly and has bad side effects like invasive policing. Christian enthusiasm for cuffing and stuffing is not surprising, though, given that drug users aren't very orthodox as far as Christian faith goes. Neurotic Christians are also always worrying that someone, somewhere is on the way to hell. On their view, it's better to lock up users for their own good. It separates users from the faithful without damning users immediately to eternity in hell, as would be the case if they were dumped into land fills. Let's just note also that the same busybody mentality has long motivated Christians to make pests of theirselves all over the world, same as "white" democrats do. So now we have identified three groups of rightless people to deal with during the Good Reset. Unrepentant lawyers of the Old Regime comprise yet another, but there's a lot of overlap there with the other three groups.
"Moreover, it would be criminal per se to defend theirselves or their property. The same strategy could be used for drug makers and drug dealers."
That includes Moderna, Pfizer, and the Sackler family, the Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn who made and marketed fraudulently Oxycontin, then, leaving a swath of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans behind them, scurried with their billions in blood money off to Our Best Friend and Only Democracy in the Middle East where they can enjoy their wealth without fear of being extradited to the US to face justice. And how about the doctors, pharmacists, and hospitals that soak taxpayers for thousands of dollars for a pill that costs two dollars to produce? And insurance companies--now there's a massively corrupt bunch who could certainly use a good beating. Also deserving of vigilante justice is everyone associated with the education industry. Think of the millions of young lives ruined every year by their lies and propaganda--way more than the victims of illegal drugs. All Hollywood producers need to be impaled on stakes facing west to deflect God's wrath for what they've turned the country into. And as for bad judgment, you can't do worse than 434 of the 435 members of Congress. If it weren't for bad judgment, they'd have no judgment at all. String them up as well, I say. The damage they cause to society dwarfs anything the potheads can manage.
"Neurotic Christians are also always worrying that someone, somewhere is on the way to hell. "
But what really keeps them up at night is the fear that someone, somewhere is experiencing pleasure.
I think this is fairly accurate. We can't really trust government police.
All I would add is many young men are being allowed into our nations. There are no jobs for them. How long before we see citizenship offered if they serve in the military or police?
Here in Britain many police forces are "struggling to meet diversity targets." They are now seeking black men with criminal records. They are also interviewing men overseas.
That is the kind of insanity we are now dealing with. And those foreign men will have even less loyalty to us than our own cops.
Fun fact: Lincoln granted citizenship to Irish, German and other immigrants who joined in his effort to eradicate native-born Southerners. Over a quarter of the U.S. Army was foreign born by 1864. Grant needed cannon fodder. 50k US army casualties in the Overland campaign. I’d say my folk, in regiments from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, sent more than a few to their reward.
I can't endorse your demeanor during that farcical stop and search episode. What else are too many cops going to do to justify their employment in a town full of old Lutherans than harass anyone w/ the slightest suspicion of drug law breaking? It's their entertainment for the evening. Speaking of farcical that Reuben character seems like a prime candidate for "other race." Jews as we should all realize by now don't like to identify as white.
I guess my attitude re cops is socially conservative. I live in a small, white town bordering a city, Yonkers, full of hispanic and black perps. How do I know they're perps? I saw them parade into court during jury duty at the county seat in White Plains. I don't think my local cops will arrest me for thought crime or hate speech. But the mayor might try to make things unpleasant if I revealed white supremist leanings in public. Jews have a strong political presence in these environs which is undesirable, but then again, they're fighting against each other in the local square re Gaza. They not always monolithic as wacky Reuben proves.
In appearance, Reuben is white, but you are right about not identifying as white. He identifies as black, actually (and seriously). Like I said, "colorful."
Law enforcement is bound to be different in Westchester County, which is urban/suburban if you count Yonkers as urban. The cops are far less oppressive in the cities, the BLM/MSM narrative notwithstanding.
The first time I visited Council Grove, about eight months before I moved here, I walked from my motel room to a local gas station/convenience store--three blocks. The first three vehicles that went past me on Main St were cop cars. By the time I got back to my room, I'd seen several more. At the time, I was living in Kansas City, where there is an actual and constant demand for police services, but where you saw nothing remotely like that level of policing. One day, I walked with my dog from the place I ended up living in to the local grocery store about a mile away. I counted 13 cops/sheriffs vehicles along the way. That's like a cop per block. That's insane.
You don't have to be a criminal to feel oppressed by the constant lurking, the constant scrutiny for the slightest infraction. I know a guy here who got a ticket for not using his turn signal coming out of his own driveway, for crying out loud. The cops simply aren't like that in Kansas City, or New York City, or Washington, DC. Or Beijing, for that matter, or any other place I've lived. They are only like this in these small, non-diverse towns in flyover country.
In Kansas City, at two in the morning on a warm Saturday night, you are going to see teenagers in cars trying to beat each other off red lights, doing donuts in parking lots, hanging out of the windows of cars going too fast, all the things teenage boys do--the things we did when I was a teenager in the small, white town where I grew up. Sure, it's bad, it's dangerous, it's illegal, but it's also sexy if you're a teenage girl.
In the rare instances you spot a teenager out on a Saturday night in Council Grove, he'll be driving exactly 20 mph, hunched over the steering wheel, staring straight ahead, hands at ten and two o'clock. In other words, he'll be driving like he's 80 instead of 18. He's just trying to get home without some cop nailing him for two weeks of wages at his minimum wage after school job and he certainly won't have a girl with him.
But the old people here who accept all these cops because they are doing a Good Job with the Drug Problem can't understand why almost every kid bolts as soon as they graduate from high school.
But what was it about my demeanor at that traffic stop that you can't endorse?
Since you had no contraband on you, the easiest, quickest way out of the situation was submission. You seemed to be fighting a needless skirmish, one that escalated into a battle because the cop didn't like your attitude. What he wanted was recognition of his authority. You were withholding that every step of the way. Not saying you didn't have right on your side: 24mph and canine indifference are hardly worth law-enforcing. But the more prudent approach would be to let the dick have his moment, especially as his peers are all around him. He's got to save face.
Your comments on different policing in small, white towns in red states come as a revelation to me. Do you think it's deliberate politically-driven harassment of MAGA Land? I'm aware that cops can be bullies and over zealous law enforcers, especially when it came to weed. I lived as a reefer in NYC and Hoboken for 3 decades, but I never flaunted it, seldom in public nor did I have a car. Maybe the car thing brings out some extra animosity re enforcement. Step out of your car seems to be fighting words to drivers.
Of course w/ legalized marijuana a lot has changed. We have a situation in our 6 apt co-op where some tenants want to evict a pot-smoking girl and her enabling mother. They want others to join their snitch because of the smell. I'm not into that at all. Smoke free building is overly restrictive as a bylaw. Just keep it inside your rooms. Enough.
"... the easiest, quickest way out of the situation was submission."
I agree with the general strategy of "choosing one's battles," but in this case, I think it was really important to stand up to the cops. If you don't stand up to a bully, they will just come back for more later.
Craig didn't raise the level of animosity - he just stood his ground. It would be demoralizing to do otherwise. And what do we know about what was going through the other cops' minds? It wouldn't surprise me at all if at least one of them admired Craig's response, and that could spell a win for our side later on down the road.
"Submission," on the other hand, would just breed more contempt. And we know where that leads.
You've heard the adage "discretion is the better part of valor" perhaps. What was gained by such steadfastness in battle? You speculate admiration by another cop. Possibly. But also Craig could get a rep among some in the local force as a potential trouble maker. Doesn't seem worth it to me over small potatoes. But that's hindsight from an outsider to the situation.
The phrase you referred to is "familiarity breeds contempt" not submission. Why would following a cop's instructions breed more contempt? He didn't have contraband. They saw that. Craig's innocence was vindicated w/o doubt. Do the cops now think Craig's a pussy for complying to the extent he did? I don't think so.
I wasn't there in Craig's position. And it's not easy to make right decisions in the heat of the moment. When I was young I had a similar encounter and took Craig's attitude instinctively. Actually addressed the small crowd that gathered w/ some political remarks. That earned me a disturbing the peace citation in addition to distributing leaflets w/o a permit in Central Park. Had to appear in court and pay a fine for leafleting, but the judge let me off on disturbance w/ a half smile.
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Being it was NYC there were no social repercussions to my reputation. They didn't care a fig later on when I did jury duty. But I think, as has been discussed, small town politics are different.
Submission by a victim breeding further contempt by a perp is a stretch, an overstatement not a simple statement or restatement of folk wisdom. Submission does not necessarily lead to more contempt. Submission only means obeying an order or demand. But the order or demand is not necessarily contemptible. Contempt is not necessarily in the mind of the person in power, the authority speaking the command. All demands are not contemptible.
My wife tells me to take down the garbage. I comply. I'm submissive. We've agreed. She's not thinking I'm a sucker. Now I can get him to watch dog shows on tv. Well, she might, but if she does, that's a bridge too far. I'll balk at that. I can stop the submissive behavior whenever I want. Garbage removal is a voluntary situational decision based on a mutual agreement. No contempt intended or felt.
Co-vid was a different situation. Its restrictions were enforced for many people. Jobs or travel depended on submission. The force of govt and media was a contemptible factor. Not complying as much as possible was my best course of action. Did submission by some lead to submission by others? Probably. Did my not wearing a mask in the early days help or hinder the situation? Hard to say. I did what I thought was best for me.
I think we can agree on walking away from contemptible situations whenever possible is the right course of action. Our govt is hostile. They're going to keep it up. We know that, some of us anyway. Most don't. They need awakening to their peril. If our actions further that then we're doing good.
You are right that submission would have been the quickest, easiest way out of the situation, and that was what the less-bullying cop told me afterwards. But the situation was already escalated. Before they even stopped me, they knew they were going to search my vehicle, regardless of my demeanor.
It was the situation itself that was objectionable. I was already peeved at being stopped for hyper-enforcement of the traffic laws. As soon as I saw the dog, I knew what the deal was-- that this was a predatory stop and I was the prey.
I don't think we should submit meekly to that. The bullies, the petty tyrants, the predators are never satisfied. It will always get worse.
I think often of Solzhenitsyn's famous statement of how they burned later in the camps. They could have saved Russia from the demons if they had resisted at the very outset.
I don't think the abusive policing is political or anti-MAGA in origin. I believe it's a result of a combination of the American Puritanism that has played a big role in devising our response to the social phenomenon of drugs (condemn and punish), the federalization of law enforcement through the War on Drugs (these aren't locals banding together to catch cattle rustlers), and the blundering nature of democracy in general (asset forfeiture laws, for example).
But I do think the usefulness of our police apparatus as a tool for subjugation has been recognized and appropriated. The FBI and the SPLC work closely together, after all. The first wave of political arrests in Russia, when hundreds of antisemites across the country were rounded up, occurred after the February revolution in 1917, but before the October Bolshevik revolution.
I said a lot already in response to Anna. I don't mind you sticking up for your rights or her sticking up for you. However, my view is that you've both prejudged cops as the enemy - e.g. their stop of you was a"predatory stop". To me they are at worst tools of the enemy, but at best servants and protectors of the people.
Judaic thinking, an ancient mind virus, is the WMD being pushed by the primary enemy, the Jewish Power Elite, as administered by organized Jewry and executed by diverse subsidiaries like the federalized, militarized police orgs you mentioned. That doesn't make cops enemy agents any more than it makes liberals or neo-cons or blacks or homos or feminists or gender confused freaks. All are being used, but none of them need be prejudged as the enemy.
Re American Puritanism, they run a tight ship, too tights for my liking as well as yours. It's easy for Jews to infiltrate and control them and their evangelical cousins because they're more than halfway kosher to begin with. They worship the OT as God's word. Reverence for the ideas promoted there is the biggest, deepest con for western people. Cops aren't bible thumpers in my experience. They're not complicit on that level.
Yes, this abusive, predatory, wall-to-wall police presence is a new experience for me, and I grew up out here. Cops weren't like this when I was a kid, nor are they like this in the cities. I believe the change has something to do with some sort of a new Fund the Police program out of DC. The feds dangle cash and who can resist that? How else are these little towns going to pay for their armored personnel carriers and fleet of surveillance drones? These are essential to the waging of any half-respectable War on Drugs, don't you know and, of course, the boss is whoever signs your paycheck.
I have a feeling the day will come these little towns regret that they grasped the cash.
What do you think about trying to get them shutdown? I figure it would be difficult.
I've purchased land in a County of 14,000 people, around your areas (different state) that only has County Sheriff. It doesn't make sense to have a Police Department on such a small town. It's only function, besides terrorizing residents, must be to keep taxes low by impounding peoples money by way of tickets (and to keep the City Workers' (Mayor, etc.) Salaries high).
I currently live in a Bay Area town of around 20,000+. While they have a Police department, it's actually affiliated with the Sheriff (I think they just pay to have the Sheriff patrol).
Anyway, I was going to say I've never seen them, but since I figured I out it is the Sheriff they are using, I have seen them every once in awhile; they are certainly not oppressive and more likely than not, I won't see them.
They stepped up patrol once when there were some characters beginning to come around. The characters ended up leaving. All in all, it's seemed appropriate.
Has your town started painting the police sign on the side of the car the same color as the rest of the car? Here it will say Palmetto Police but be painted black on a black truck, so two different ways they are trying to make it difficult to know it is a police vehicle. You don’t expect trucks either. Or it is white with the lettering in the palest silver that it’s nearly invisible.
But we also identified the strong. Most seek leaders. If you saw through the propaganda, and especially if you were baffled others couldn't see through it, then perhaps you are the leader.
I think salvation for us is by leading and accepting most are followers. There is no shame in that.
Great expose of how the War on Drugs is playing out in small town America.
Living in British Columbia (Canada), I can report that the “hands off” approach to policing drug offences has created another set of problems. Even though I live in the middle of nowhere, I personally know 3 people who are in “rehab” for drug and/or alcohol addiction.
They are all in their 40s. One guy is a relatively harmless person, really hurting no one other than himself (although breaking his family’s hearts). The second guy has had brushes with the law – mostly traffic offences like driving impaired or driving without a license. Dangerous, but to date he has mostly hurt himself with his drug problems.
The third person – a woman I’ll call “Nicky,” is a walking disaster. She is in rehab for the 17th time. Yes, seventeenth, 1-7. She considers going to rehab a kind of holiday. I am not making this up. She usually gets by through whoring, stealing, and fraud.
Nicky is half-native (I refuse to use that PC term “First Nations”) and she plays that card to the hilt. She was living at a friend’s place for a while after she gave birth to her 5th kid (the previous four have all been taken away by the state), and after an altercation with my friend (also a woman), she stabbed my friend not once, but twice, with a kitchen knife. Nicky was holding her baby when she picked up the kitchen knife and stabbed my friend.
The wounds didn’t go too deep, and my friend decided not to report it to police. A couple of months later, Nicky moved out to a woman’s shelter; when my friend dropped by the shelter to drop off Nicky’s things, she was confronted by shelter staff in the parking lot and told that she couldn’t stay on the premises because Nicky was “scared” of her.
Obviously, Nicky is somewhat of an exceptional case – but I tell the story to illustrate that neither heavy-handed policing, nor soft and mushy “counselling,” is going to solve our problems. I guess the common thread between the two approaches is that it is government workers (law enforcement and social services) doing the behest of our overlords who are “benefitting” (in the short term) from how we are approaching the drug problem.
Why fix the problem when the problem pays your salary?
The recovered addicts I've known have all told me the same thing: you get over an addiction because of your own work, not someone else's. And of course we have to have a society worth living in for people to want to get over their addictions in the first place.
I think your last sentence is key. That was the impetus behind the boxing club I was starting in Lexington, Missouri. Not to change our sick society, but to change the impact of our sick society on its victims. Within three weeks of getting the keys to the facility and the lights turned on the SPLC heard about it and published a broadside that blew the project out of the water. They have a lot of power.
The program wasn't limited to drug addicts but that population would definitely have been a likely source of clients.
During the course of the lawsuit I brought against the SPLC, they hired an expert witness to give his opinion that our approach wouldn't "work." Here is my rebuttal:
https://craignelsen.substack.com/p/rebuttal-to-splcs-expert-witness
"If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury. Therefore what he must be taught to fear is his victim."
- Jeff Cooper
Good on you, Craig, for keeping your cool during that "traffic stop." Really speaks to the need for us to each be grounded in who we are at our core to deal with that kind of BS.
Seems like the War on Drugs ended when every female role model in my life was telling me to yield to peer pressure and follow the crowd of lemmings off the cliff by getting an unproven drug injected into my body to protect me from a cold virus. When I said "why should I do that?" they said "because you could win a million dollars!" Later they informed me that I wanted to kill grandma.
We were all grandma killahs
Powerful, Craig!
I recently rented to one of the local investigators of our police force. He was one of the worst renters I have ever had and he was being given a deal because of his hero status It took us 9 months of threats to garnish his wages and a meeting with his boss to get him out and he is still paying arrears 6 months later.
POS to the highest degree.
Craig. I suggest that you read "Downtown White Police" by James Lancia. This book covers a lot and is an entertaining read. Explains also the militarisation of police forces and the goal of TPTB.
If you've seen the movie "Chopper" starring Eric Bana as the criminal Chopper Reed (great film).
Well the real Chopper Reed wrote a book about his life of crime. The Australian government confiscated all the profits of this best seller as "profits from the proceeds of crime" which is a real crime IMHO
" The Australian government confiscated all the profits of this best seller as "profits from the proceeds of crime"
That's really obscene. When I read something like that my first though often is "how are we putting up with this?" But there are, no doubt, many who would read about that it would make sense to them. My second thought, then, is "democracy just can't work."
What does Lancia say is the goal of TPTB?
For America it is to eventually get rid of local police departments and have more centralised police in order to further depersonalise any relationship between cop and citizen. (ie ; a totally Federal police force. (here in Australia each State has one police force and now these ridiculous black clad body armoured "Riot Squad" cops used to brutally suppress any dissent ordinary people may feel. They have military style armoured vehicles and high power rubber bullet guns to shoot Granny with. Then there's the Special Operations pseudo soldiers to unleash if things get out of hand. The ordinary cops are fully kitted out like soldiers too.)
I remember when police wore collar and tie and actually looked human.
Anyway, In his book Lancia gets into politics, the anti gun, anti white narrative etc etc leading to where we are now heading. Well worth a read.
The po po will perform for their paymasters, same as it ever was.
The good news is police have the worst morale of any government military when it comes to any real conflict; recall how they became looters, didn’t come to work, and slaughtered civilians during Katrina.
They became an ineffective and feral entity.
Maybe my 3% target for cops declining to participate in our subjugation was way too optimistic
That doesn’t make me feel any better - just means that they’re all the more dangerous with their military toys and training.
I agree with all of your premises. But, I would offer a glimmer of hope in that their limited numbers, combined with the unprecedented speed of communications, might serve as a speed bump that provides enough time for anyone not caught up in the first wave of knocks to prepare their chosen response.
Absent the ability to effect a total blackout on communications, the moment a “round up” or systematic door knocks start going down, word will spread and give those who might choose to do so a window of opportunity to exercise some sort of reciprocal agency (whatever form that might take).
If something like you describe is to happen and be effective at the scale necessary to subdue the “deplorables” and “ungovernables” it is going to require outside assistance.
My personal favorite dystopian speculation is that COVID was designed to narrow down the areas where the most resistance will be found, and version 2.0 will involve the importation of foreign forces (to include deputization of the hordes or military aged males being imported wholesale) to serve as muscle under auspices of WHO-related regulations and treaties that subordinate national sovereignty to international decrees. That would give them the numbers to act in force.
I, of course, (to blatantly rip off one of my favorite Substackers, Rurik Skywalker) go wherever the wind blows and have no convictions other than figuring out what is popular to believe in and believing in it louder than everyone else like every moral person ought to be doing as well.
"My personal favorite dystopian speculation is that COVID was designed to narrow down the areas where the most resistance will be found, and version 2.0 will involve the importation of foreign forces (to include deputization of the hordes or military aged males being imported wholesale)"
Right, or a combination of the two. 1) We have no idea which vaccines went where and what was in every shipment, 2) it wouldn't even be necessary to deputize, just transport and turn loose (which is already being done). When they took control of Russia, they let roving gangs of Chinese, Latvian, and Korean bandits, thugs, and criminals prey on the (disarmed) Russians with impunity. In the camps, they let regular criminals prey on the political prisoners. It was to help break the back of the Russian people.
It is a huge shame on us that the rest of Christendom just stood aside and let it happen. And then we ended up allying with them against Germany. Incredible. Yet, today, our military is bombing Yemen to protect Israel's genocide of the Palestinians while we are being overrun in our own countries.
"It is a huge shame on us that the rest of Christendom just stood aside and let it [the Bolshevik Revolution] happen. And then we ended up allying with them against Germany."
Great to see the connection being made between what was done to Russia/Ukraine by the Jews in 1917 to what was done to Germany by the Jews in 1939.
That speculation is a big part of COVID-1984 IMO.
As far as confiscation goes, i don't expect a large push. It will be death by a thousand cuts. [They] will take out individuals and small groups over a long stretch.
I live in a small town but near a big city. I am familiar with police in both areas (not personally or professionally, just as an observer). I have noted the same characteristics about small town police. They really go overboard. Big city police have their own set of problems, old and new, but corruption always.
All police, at a minimum are [legalized] highway bandits - they lie in wait to apprehend you and take your money to generate revenue for the state and pad their professional stats. Quotas are real. At worst, they'll bring up any probable cause to take whatever you may have on your person or fine the shit out of you. If you're really unlucky, they'll plant some illegal thing and haul you off if they want. All these things are widespread, ongoing and verifiable actions by our "law enforcement professionals." And it's all done quietly, but they ALL know. If you're a "good cop" and you know about the "bad cops" and don't do anything about it, you're neither a good cop nor a good person. As far as i can tell, any person who signs up to enforce bad laws on the public is a bad person. There. I said it.
And you can bet they'll side with those who sign their paychecks, almost to a man - whether it be county, city, or state level when SHTF.
I "might" give a pass to Sheriff's departments on the principle that it's an "elected position" and thus more accountable to the people. In theory, this is the only way to go, but "police" departments are part of a bureaucracy that receives funding from central banks. and they're aligned directly with "the government" as such. I am also aware that "elections" are easily and almost always rigged, so there is that. YMMV. Pay attention to what your local Sheriff is doing.
Damn, I had to look up YMMV, too. I like it.
Recreational drug use is a victimless crime? That's a silly idea. Drug users subvert trust and, therefore, subvert community. Only fools respect or trust boozers, pot heads, dope fiends, acid trippers, and so on. Most users have shitty judgement, too, which is why they turn to drugs to "feel good" as you put it. Their destructiveness is often manifest as needless accidents, ruined relationships, fights with strangers, and destructive rampages against property. Drug users are trash.
So what ought we to do with them? A better solution would be to declare drug users rightless. You could punch them, kick them, spray their eyes with pepper acid, and take their possessions, but they would have no basis under law to file a complaint against you. Moreover, it would be criminal per se to defend theirselves or their property. The same strategy could be used for drug makers and drug dealers.
Just imagine the volume of cops and so-called laws which could be buried and forgotten once this approach is followed. Imagine also the ferocity with which bad "white" people would destroy each other under this regime, esp. when Christians, too, are deemed rightless, just like any ordinary vermin.
Now, we all know the boot licker solution (which is almost like calling it the Christian solution) works poorly and has bad side effects like invasive policing. Christian enthusiasm for cuffing and stuffing is not surprising, though, given that drug users aren't very orthodox as far as Christian faith goes. Neurotic Christians are also always worrying that someone, somewhere is on the way to hell. On their view, it's better to lock up users for their own good. It separates users from the faithful without damning users immediately to eternity in hell, as would be the case if they were dumped into land fills. Let's just note also that the same busybody mentality has long motivated Christians to make pests of theirselves all over the world, same as "white" democrats do. So now we have identified three groups of rightless people to deal with during the Good Reset. Unrepentant lawyers of the Old Regime comprise yet another, but there's a lot of overlap there with the other three groups.
"Moreover, it would be criminal per se to defend theirselves or their property. The same strategy could be used for drug makers and drug dealers."
That includes Moderna, Pfizer, and the Sackler family, the Orthodox Jews from Brooklyn who made and marketed fraudulently Oxycontin, then, leaving a swath of hundreds of thousands of dead Americans behind them, scurried with their billions in blood money off to Our Best Friend and Only Democracy in the Middle East where they can enjoy their wealth without fear of being extradited to the US to face justice. And how about the doctors, pharmacists, and hospitals that soak taxpayers for thousands of dollars for a pill that costs two dollars to produce? And insurance companies--now there's a massively corrupt bunch who could certainly use a good beating. Also deserving of vigilante justice is everyone associated with the education industry. Think of the millions of young lives ruined every year by their lies and propaganda--way more than the victims of illegal drugs. All Hollywood producers need to be impaled on stakes facing west to deflect God's wrath for what they've turned the country into. And as for bad judgment, you can't do worse than 434 of the 435 members of Congress. If it weren't for bad judgment, they'd have no judgment at all. String them up as well, I say. The damage they cause to society dwarfs anything the potheads can manage.
"Neurotic Christians are also always worrying that someone, somewhere is on the way to hell. "
But what really keeps them up at night is the fear that someone, somewhere is experiencing pleasure.
I loved how you connected together several seemingly unconnected concepts in one single post.
But I have to ask. What make was the survived phone? Sounds like a solid build !
LOL, well, luckily, I can only afford the $39.95 Tracphones they sell at Walgreen's or CVS
I think this is fairly accurate. We can't really trust government police.
All I would add is many young men are being allowed into our nations. There are no jobs for them. How long before we see citizenship offered if they serve in the military or police?
Here in Britain many police forces are "struggling to meet diversity targets." They are now seeking black men with criminal records. They are also interviewing men overseas.
That is the kind of insanity we are now dealing with. And those foreign men will have even less loyalty to us than our own cops.
Fun fact: Lincoln granted citizenship to Irish, German and other immigrants who joined in his effort to eradicate native-born Southerners. Over a quarter of the U.S. Army was foreign born by 1864. Grant needed cannon fodder. 50k US army casualties in the Overland campaign. I’d say my folk, in regiments from Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and Louisiana, sent more than a few to their reward.
I can't endorse your demeanor during that farcical stop and search episode. What else are too many cops going to do to justify their employment in a town full of old Lutherans than harass anyone w/ the slightest suspicion of drug law breaking? It's their entertainment for the evening. Speaking of farcical that Reuben character seems like a prime candidate for "other race." Jews as we should all realize by now don't like to identify as white.
I guess my attitude re cops is socially conservative. I live in a small, white town bordering a city, Yonkers, full of hispanic and black perps. How do I know they're perps? I saw them parade into court during jury duty at the county seat in White Plains. I don't think my local cops will arrest me for thought crime or hate speech. But the mayor might try to make things unpleasant if I revealed white supremist leanings in public. Jews have a strong political presence in these environs which is undesirable, but then again, they're fighting against each other in the local square re Gaza. They not always monolithic as wacky Reuben proves.
In appearance, Reuben is white, but you are right about not identifying as white. He identifies as black, actually (and seriously). Like I said, "colorful."
Law enforcement is bound to be different in Westchester County, which is urban/suburban if you count Yonkers as urban. The cops are far less oppressive in the cities, the BLM/MSM narrative notwithstanding.
The first time I visited Council Grove, about eight months before I moved here, I walked from my motel room to a local gas station/convenience store--three blocks. The first three vehicles that went past me on Main St were cop cars. By the time I got back to my room, I'd seen several more. At the time, I was living in Kansas City, where there is an actual and constant demand for police services, but where you saw nothing remotely like that level of policing. One day, I walked with my dog from the place I ended up living in to the local grocery store about a mile away. I counted 13 cops/sheriffs vehicles along the way. That's like a cop per block. That's insane.
You don't have to be a criminal to feel oppressed by the constant lurking, the constant scrutiny for the slightest infraction. I know a guy here who got a ticket for not using his turn signal coming out of his own driveway, for crying out loud. The cops simply aren't like that in Kansas City, or New York City, or Washington, DC. Or Beijing, for that matter, or any other place I've lived. They are only like this in these small, non-diverse towns in flyover country.
In Kansas City, at two in the morning on a warm Saturday night, you are going to see teenagers in cars trying to beat each other off red lights, doing donuts in parking lots, hanging out of the windows of cars going too fast, all the things teenage boys do--the things we did when I was a teenager in the small, white town where I grew up. Sure, it's bad, it's dangerous, it's illegal, but it's also sexy if you're a teenage girl.
In the rare instances you spot a teenager out on a Saturday night in Council Grove, he'll be driving exactly 20 mph, hunched over the steering wheel, staring straight ahead, hands at ten and two o'clock. In other words, he'll be driving like he's 80 instead of 18. He's just trying to get home without some cop nailing him for two weeks of wages at his minimum wage after school job and he certainly won't have a girl with him.
But the old people here who accept all these cops because they are doing a Good Job with the Drug Problem can't understand why almost every kid bolts as soon as they graduate from high school.
But what was it about my demeanor at that traffic stop that you can't endorse?
Since you had no contraband on you, the easiest, quickest way out of the situation was submission. You seemed to be fighting a needless skirmish, one that escalated into a battle because the cop didn't like your attitude. What he wanted was recognition of his authority. You were withholding that every step of the way. Not saying you didn't have right on your side: 24mph and canine indifference are hardly worth law-enforcing. But the more prudent approach would be to let the dick have his moment, especially as his peers are all around him. He's got to save face.
Your comments on different policing in small, white towns in red states come as a revelation to me. Do you think it's deliberate politically-driven harassment of MAGA Land? I'm aware that cops can be bullies and over zealous law enforcers, especially when it came to weed. I lived as a reefer in NYC and Hoboken for 3 decades, but I never flaunted it, seldom in public nor did I have a car. Maybe the car thing brings out some extra animosity re enforcement. Step out of your car seems to be fighting words to drivers.
Of course w/ legalized marijuana a lot has changed. We have a situation in our 6 apt co-op where some tenants want to evict a pot-smoking girl and her enabling mother. They want others to join their snitch because of the smell. I'm not into that at all. Smoke free building is overly restrictive as a bylaw. Just keep it inside your rooms. Enough.
"... the easiest, quickest way out of the situation was submission."
I agree with the general strategy of "choosing one's battles," but in this case, I think it was really important to stand up to the cops. If you don't stand up to a bully, they will just come back for more later.
Craig didn't raise the level of animosity - he just stood his ground. It would be demoralizing to do otherwise. And what do we know about what was going through the other cops' minds? It wouldn't surprise me at all if at least one of them admired Craig's response, and that could spell a win for our side later on down the road.
"Submission," on the other hand, would just breed more contempt. And we know where that leads.
You've heard the adage "discretion is the better part of valor" perhaps. What was gained by such steadfastness in battle? You speculate admiration by another cop. Possibly. But also Craig could get a rep among some in the local force as a potential trouble maker. Doesn't seem worth it to me over small potatoes. But that's hindsight from an outsider to the situation.
The phrase you referred to is "familiarity breeds contempt" not submission. Why would following a cop's instructions breed more contempt? He didn't have contraband. They saw that. Craig's innocence was vindicated w/o doubt. Do the cops now think Craig's a pussy for complying to the extent he did? I don't think so.
I wasn't there in Craig's position. And it's not easy to make right decisions in the heat of the moment. When I was young I had a similar encounter and took Craig's attitude instinctively. Actually addressed the small crowd that gathered w/ some political remarks. That earned me a disturbing the peace citation in addition to distributing leaflets w/o a permit in Central Park. Had to appear in court and pay a fine for leafleting, but the judge let me off on disturbance w/ a half smile.
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Being it was NYC there were no social repercussions to my reputation. They didn't care a fig later on when I did jury duty. But I think, as has been discussed, small town politics are different.
"The phrase you referred to is 'familiarity breeds contempt' not submission."
No, I was not referring to the phrase 'familiarity breeds comtempt.'
I said, "'Submission,' on the other hand, would just breed more contempt. And we know where that leads."
I stand by what I said.
It appears I was too subtle, so I'll be more explicit.
"Submission" has not been a good strategy during covid. Those who submitted to vaccination have landed themselves into a right mess.
Submission by a victim breeding further contempt by a perp is a stretch, an overstatement not a simple statement or restatement of folk wisdom. Submission does not necessarily lead to more contempt. Submission only means obeying an order or demand. But the order or demand is not necessarily contemptible. Contempt is not necessarily in the mind of the person in power, the authority speaking the command. All demands are not contemptible.
My wife tells me to take down the garbage. I comply. I'm submissive. We've agreed. She's not thinking I'm a sucker. Now I can get him to watch dog shows on tv. Well, she might, but if she does, that's a bridge too far. I'll balk at that. I can stop the submissive behavior whenever I want. Garbage removal is a voluntary situational decision based on a mutual agreement. No contempt intended or felt.
Co-vid was a different situation. Its restrictions were enforced for many people. Jobs or travel depended on submission. The force of govt and media was a contemptible factor. Not complying as much as possible was my best course of action. Did submission by some lead to submission by others? Probably. Did my not wearing a mask in the early days help or hinder the situation? Hard to say. I did what I thought was best for me.
I think we can agree on walking away from contemptible situations whenever possible is the right course of action. Our govt is hostile. They're going to keep it up. We know that, some of us anyway. Most don't. They need awakening to their peril. If our actions further that then we're doing good.
You are right that submission would have been the quickest, easiest way out of the situation, and that was what the less-bullying cop told me afterwards. But the situation was already escalated. Before they even stopped me, they knew they were going to search my vehicle, regardless of my demeanor.
It was the situation itself that was objectionable. I was already peeved at being stopped for hyper-enforcement of the traffic laws. As soon as I saw the dog, I knew what the deal was-- that this was a predatory stop and I was the prey.
I don't think we should submit meekly to that. The bullies, the petty tyrants, the predators are never satisfied. It will always get worse.
I think often of Solzhenitsyn's famous statement of how they burned later in the camps. They could have saved Russia from the demons if they had resisted at the very outset.
I don't think the abusive policing is political or anti-MAGA in origin. I believe it's a result of a combination of the American Puritanism that has played a big role in devising our response to the social phenomenon of drugs (condemn and punish), the federalization of law enforcement through the War on Drugs (these aren't locals banding together to catch cattle rustlers), and the blundering nature of democracy in general (asset forfeiture laws, for example).
But I do think the usefulness of our police apparatus as a tool for subjugation has been recognized and appropriated. The FBI and the SPLC work closely together, after all. The first wave of political arrests in Russia, when hundreds of antisemites across the country were rounded up, occurred after the February revolution in 1917, but before the October Bolshevik revolution.
I said a lot already in response to Anna. I don't mind you sticking up for your rights or her sticking up for you. However, my view is that you've both prejudged cops as the enemy - e.g. their stop of you was a"predatory stop". To me they are at worst tools of the enemy, but at best servants and protectors of the people.
Judaic thinking, an ancient mind virus, is the WMD being pushed by the primary enemy, the Jewish Power Elite, as administered by organized Jewry and executed by diverse subsidiaries like the federalized, militarized police orgs you mentioned. That doesn't make cops enemy agents any more than it makes liberals or neo-cons or blacks or homos or feminists or gender confused freaks. All are being used, but none of them need be prejudged as the enemy.
Re American Puritanism, they run a tight ship, too tights for my liking as well as yours. It's easy for Jews to infiltrate and control them and their evangelical cousins because they're more than halfway kosher to begin with. They worship the OT as God's word. Reverence for the ideas promoted there is the biggest, deepest con for western people. Cops aren't bible thumpers in my experience. They're not complicit on that level.
Yes, this abusive, predatory, wall-to-wall police presence is a new experience for me, and I grew up out here. Cops weren't like this when I was a kid, nor are they like this in the cities. I believe the change has something to do with some sort of a new Fund the Police program out of DC. The feds dangle cash and who can resist that? How else are these little towns going to pay for their armored personnel carriers and fleet of surveillance drones? These are essential to the waging of any half-respectable War on Drugs, don't you know and, of course, the boss is whoever signs your paycheck.
I have a feeling the day will come these little towns regret that they grasped the cash.
What do you think about trying to get them shutdown? I figure it would be difficult.
I've purchased land in a County of 14,000 people, around your areas (different state) that only has County Sheriff. It doesn't make sense to have a Police Department on such a small town. It's only function, besides terrorizing residents, must be to keep taxes low by impounding peoples money by way of tickets (and to keep the City Workers' (Mayor, etc.) Salaries high).
I currently live in a Bay Area town of around 20,000+. While they have a Police department, it's actually affiliated with the Sheriff (I think they just pay to have the Sheriff patrol).
Anyway, I was going to say I've never seen them, but since I figured I out it is the Sheriff they are using, I have seen them every once in awhile; they are certainly not oppressive and more likely than not, I won't see them.
They stepped up patrol once when there were some characters beginning to come around. The characters ended up leaving. All in all, it's seemed appropriate.
Something to note: guess who provides all the paramilitary training to the cops? Yes. Exactly.
Has your town started painting the police sign on the side of the car the same color as the rest of the car? Here it will say Palmetto Police but be painted black on a black truck, so two different ways they are trying to make it difficult to know it is a police vehicle. You don’t expect trucks either. Or it is white with the lettering in the palest silver that it’s nearly invisible.
COVID-1984 really exposed people's true natures. We saw the predators, the useful idiots and those whose minds are numbed with fear.
But we also identified the strong. Most seek leaders. If you saw through the propaganda, and especially if you were baffled others couldn't see through it, then perhaps you are the leader.
I think salvation for us is by leading and accepting most are followers. There is no shame in that.