Ouch. This is somewhat painful to read because it is so convicting. We don’t make a big enough deal of prosecuting crimes, in particular the so-called petty ones. I’m not calling for Javert-like police and prosecuters, but we need something better than what we have.
Tech Central Station – A Real Story of Two Americas
In the name of the Two Americas, we’ve spent untold trillions of dollars in the last forty years in order to vindicate the largely imaginary right of poor citizens to live on someone else’s dime. It hasn’t worked. Perhaps we should instead spend our money in defense of the real and fundamental right to unmolested ownership of self and property — the right upon which the legitimacy of all governments is predicated. You want to help the poor? Don’t subsidize their poverty. Subsidize their safety. Equality of opportunity begins with safe bikes in the front yard.
Hmmm, let’s see. In the preamble of the Constitution we read:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Apparently, we have neither established justice nor insured domestic tranquility. We should be enforcing the law better, in Order to form a more perfect Union.
