What makes citizens obey the law is not always their sterling character. Instead, fear of punishment—the shame of arrest, fines, or imprisonment—more often makes us comply with laws.
Law enforcement is not just a way to deal with individual violators but also a way to remind society at large that there can be no civilization without legality. Or, as 17th-century British statesman George Savile famously put it: “Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.”
In the modern world, we call such prompt, uniform, and guaranteed law enforcement “deterrence,” from the Latin verb meaning “to frighten away.” One protester who disrupts a speech is not the problem. But if unpunished, he green-lights hundreds more like him.
Worse still, when one law is left unenforced, then all sorts of other laws are weakened.
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4 comments:
ANARCHY is exactly what these Socialist Democrats are forcing on us.
Proof every time they don't enforce the law about stealing, you see the looters having a ball.
When they looted the Baltimore Foot Locker store, they took every kind of show out of it,....except the work boots.
Truth!
Two Sets of Laws.
It has brought down the most powerful, the most arrogant, and the most countries in history.
Guess where WE are at??
Running Two Sets of Laws as if it was enshrined in the Constitution.
You cheer???
Smile when you go outside so your picture looks good for their facial recognition they are intent on producing for EVERY AMERICAN. And don't forget to send in a DNA sample so you can give the government what they also desperately crave. They will even make some stuff up about how you are related to the King of England. (read the fine print, you dummies). When you renew your license, make sure you bring 35 different forms proving you are who you say you are, unless you just want to say "I'm an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, running from a murder charge, then they just hand you a license.
Make sure you submit to the Gestapo shakedown so you can get permission to use your GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION right to bear arms (by people who never asked YOUR permission to do the same thing).
Feel free to rape, rob, and kill, if you have money and connections. Nothing will happen to you, but the rest of the poor serfs do 25-life and it doesn't take a 4 year investigation to put you there either.
Go to prison and lose everything you have for not paying your taxes, unless you have friends like obama, clinton, or pelosi. You get INVITATIONS to hobnob at the White House if so.
Drive drunk, kill a woman (actually, leave the scene while she slowly dies), wait a day, call the police, and run for Senate again and be called "the Lion of the Senate". (We, the people go to prison).
Ask the French, the English, the Russians, the Chinese, or the Spanish how THAT worked out for their countries.
Answer?
The same way it's going to work out here. Their heads will roll or be pulled off by a rope.
Two Sets of Laws. IN YOUR FACE.
And you keep cheering.
See you soon.
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