Democrats, the ruling party in NJ, need to stand up for police
/By Rubashov
Police officers are wage-earning, blue-collar members of the working class. They enforce the laws made by the Legislature, signed into law by the Governor, and upheld by the Judiciary. The Legislature and the Governor are elected by the people.
Unfortunately, in New Jersey as elsewhere, wealthy elites who have the money to influence public policy have corrupted our elections. Some elites, like Governors Corzine and Murphy, have used their vast wealth to get their hands directly on the levers of power. The result of this corruption is summed up by that famous Princeton University Study into whether our nation was still of democracy. It concluded…
“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.”For more on this, we suggest you watch this short video from the reform group, Represent.Us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig
The wealthy elites who dominate this country are not content with simply owning everything and getting their way… they want to tell YOU how to live too. And because they always get their way, their censoriousness results in new laws to promote the things they like and ban things they don’t like.
This results in hypocrisies like Tammy Murphy’s advocacy for a so-called “green” energy plan that will raise costs for working people while allowing her comrades at Goldman-Sachs to pocket billions. Like Phil Murphy’s quarantine of fellow Americans who live in states he feels have too many cases of COVID-19, while adopting a no-questions-asked “Sanctuary State” policy for people coming from foreign countries with not only high levels of COVID but high levels of TB, which kills 1.5 million people worldwide each year (including 200,000 children).
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tuberculosis
In one of his most famous essays, writer George Will argued that political "overcriminalization" by a state legislature was responsible for the death of Eric Garner, a sidewalk merchant killed in a confrontation with police ordered to enforce a new law on sales tax scofflaws.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394392/plague-overcriminalization-george-will
Will raised the question of how many new laws are created by state legislatures and by Congress in the rush to be seen to be "doing something"? Will's brilliant column is a must read for legislators thinking about proposing their next round of ideas that will end up being enforced by men with guns. Will, a Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist at The Washington Post, wrote his column before governors like Phil Murphy were sending police to break up church services and to arrest the owners of gyms and diners. In his column, Will writes:
“Harvey Silverglate, a civil-liberties attorney, titled his 2009 book Three Felonies a Day to indicate how easily we can fall afoul of America’s metastasizing body of criminal laws. Professor Douglas Husak of Rutgers University says that approximately 70 percent of American adults have, usually unwittingly, committed a crime for which they could be imprisoned.
In his 2008 book, Overcriminalization: The Limits of the Criminal Law, Husak says that more than half of the 3,000 federal crimes — itself a dismaying number — are found not in the Federal Criminal Code but in numerous other statutes. And, by one estimate, at least 300,000 federal regulations can be enforced by agencies wielding criminal punishments. Citing Husak, Professor Stephen L. Carter of the Yale Law School, like a hammer driving a nail head flush to a board, forcefully underscores the moral of this story:
Society needs laws; therefore it needs law enforcement. But ‘overcriminalization matters’ because ‘making an offense criminal also means that the police will go armed to enforce it.’ The job of the police ‘is to carry out the legislative will.’ But today’s political system takes ‘bizarre delight in creating new crimes’ for enforcement. And ‘every act of enforcement includes the possibility of violence.’
It’s unlikely that the New York Legislature, in creating the crime of selling untaxed cigarettes, imagined that anyone would die for violating it. But a wise legislator would give the matter some thought before creating a crime. Officials who fail to take into account the obvious fact that the laws they’re so eager to pass will be enforced at the point of a gun cannot fairly be described as public servants.”
Law enforcement actions will inevitably go wrong. You can never mix men with guns – charged by the political class with preventing some form of human behavior – and humans under the influence or suffering from substance abuse or mental issues, without the possibility of something going wrong. And every time some law enforcement interaction goes wrong, we can always count on the very same people who sent the police in the first place – the political class – to turn on them and “blame the police.”
The blue-collar police always get blamed – not the white-collar legislators or the governors who make the law and then send the police to enforce it. The kick in the balls is that it’s some of those white-collar legislators who made the law who end up leading the protests against the police for enforcing the law they made.
In this moment of BLM/Antifa madness, many Democrat politicians are actively blaming the police who enforce the laws they made. They are providing moral and legal support to those who target police officers and their families with acts up to and including terrorism. Their friends in the economic elite are providing financial support to those who bear some measure of responsibility for incidents of terror against the families of police officers, like the one below…Police officers come in all races, creeds, and genders. It is the best job available to folks of their class in a job market that has grown increasingly thinner (courtesy of the politicians and their paymasters). If the politicians could find a way to outsource the work, they would... and maybe, they will, someday. But for now, our police are our neighbors, sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, moms and dads. For now, they are just ordinary members of our communities called upon to do some very important and often unpleasant work. Blue-collar work at blue-collar pay.
How many of Phil Murphy's One-Percenter neighbors would perform CPR on a homeless man if he needed it? A cop will.
"Every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”George Orwell
(Eric Arthur Blair)
