Even as late as the 1950s and 60s, the community would come together to "correct" the judge.
They would also "correct" the ex-wife (who is not even the boy's biological mother).
People would be hanging from fucking trees.
Child abuse would stop REAL fucking quick if we still had our community support systems in place.
Instead, conservatives forgot a very basic lesson in the last generation or two: Liberty is never won "once and for all". It has to be fought for every generation.
Our grandparents knew this. As did our great-grandparents. And THEIR great-grandparents.
As the social fabric broke down (under "diversity" and the purposeful "deconstruction of American identity") our communities and civic organizations dissolved. We outsourced our responsibility to bureaucracies, assuming that they would always be under conservative control. It never occurred to us that these institutions would be weaponized against us.
Any institution that serves AGAINST the interests of the people has violated the "consent of the governed" precept and is illegitimate, and, as Jefferson said, MUST be removed.
John Stuart Mill warned against passivity in "Considerations On Representative Government". He said that a republic requires an active populace, whereas all a tyranny demands is that people be passive and obedient.
He said that in authoritarian states, people will see a mugging on the street and look the other way, saying, "It's not MY job to stop it. It's the police's job!"
In a republic, by contrast, the citizen is called to stop the evil. It's why places like America had citizen's arrest.
Quote: "Again, a people must be considered unfit for more than a limited and qualified freedom who will not co-operate actively with the law and the public authorities in the repression of evil-doers. A people who are more disposed to shelter a criminal than to apprehend him; who, like the Hindoos, will perjure themselves to screen the man who has robbed them, rather than take trouble or expose themselves to vindictiveness by giving evidence against him; who, like some nations of Europe down to a recent date, if a man mugs another in the public street, pass by on the other side, because it is the business of the police to look to the matter, and it is safer not to interfere in what does not concern them—require that the public authorities should be armed with much sterner powers of repression than elsewhere, since the first indispensable requisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on."
Even as late as the 1950s and 60s, the community would come together to "correct" the judge.
They would also "correct" the ex-wife (who is not even the boy's biological mother).
People would be hanging from fucking trees.
Child abuse would stop REAL fucking quick if we still had our community support systems in place.
Instead, conservatives forgot a very basic lesson in the last generation or two: Liberty is never won "once and for all". It has to be fought for every generation.
Our grandparents knew this. As did our great-grandparents. And THEIR great-grandparents.
As the social fabric broke down (under "diversity" and the purposeful "deconstruction of American identity") our communities and civic organizations dissolved. We outsourced our responsibility to bureaucracies, assuming that they would always be under conservative control. It never occurred to us that these institutions would be weaponized against us.
Any institution that serves AGAINST the interests of the people has violated the "consent of the governed" precept and is illegitimate, and, as Jefferson said, MUST be removed.
John Stuart Mill warned against passivity in "Considerations On Representative Government". He said that a republic requires an active populace, whereas all a tyranny demands is that people be passive and obedient.
He said that in authoritarian states, people will see a mugging on the street and look the other way, saying, "It's not MY job to stop it. It's the police's job!"
In a republic, by contrast, the citizen is called to stop the evil. It's why places like America had citizen's arrest.
Quote: "Again, a people must be considered unfit for more than a limited and qualified freedom who will not co-operate actively with the law and the public authorities in the repression of evil-doers. A people who are more disposed to shelter a criminal than to apprehend him; who, like the Hindoos, will perjure themselves to screen the man who has robbed them, rather than take trouble or expose themselves to vindictiveness by giving evidence against him; who, like some nations of Europe down to a recent date, if a man mugs another in the public street, pass by on the other side, because it is the business of the police to look to the matter, and it is safer not to interfere in what does not concern them—require that the public authorities should be armed with much sterner powers of repression than elsewhere, since the first indispensable requisites of civilized life have nothing else to rest on."