"swatcop" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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If you want to talk about extremes, consider a situation where there's
NO
enforcement. Then, citizens will take matters into their own hands. Not
a
good idea.

Better yet, how about life in other less civilized countries? You steal,
they cut off your hand. You hit someone with your car and kill them, they
shoot you right there on the spot. And these crybabies are complaining
about
having to wear a seatbelt, and a seatbelt's only purpose or function in
life
is to save lives. Unreal.

You know, the crime rate is a lot lower in those other countries. Maybe we
should adopt some of their methods.

I've been reading a pretty scary book about what life is like in Colombia.
Scary stuff. Paramilitary (works for someone, but nobody's sure who - maybe
sugar plantation or factory owners) comes to a town and puts lists of names
in a town square. The list contains people who the pares believe are guilty
of crimes like theft or drug-running. Within a few days, everyone on the
list is gunned down in the street. Sometimes, they pith them, instead.
Remember pithing frogs in biology class? A needle through the base of the
skull? It apparently works with people as well.

Next the guerillas come to town and track down the paras they believe were
responsible for the executions, and administer their own justice. Sometimes,
the police, who are powerless, are blamed, so they are murdered. The
townspeople *know* the cops were innocent because nobody in town tipped them
off about which bad guys needed to be "handled". The cops are actually a
liability because they're prime targets of the guerillas. Innocent
bystanders are often hurt when guerillas drive by firing machine guns at a
group of cops. The locals get nervous when the police decide to build a new
police station right in the middle of town.

Very confusing. Very weird. Happening right now.

By the way, the cops aren't powerless for lack of weaponry. We send them
sophisticated stuff. They're powerless because the populace is afraid to
communicate with the cops. Too dangerous.