DRUG ADDELED BRAINS AT WORK

So many times sitting down to write one of these columns, I have started with the thought that I had seen just about everything. Well, of course I haven't and it has happened again. This, like so many other of the situations I have described, seems to be the result of sixties-era hippies having survived and gone on to try to function as adults. 

Normally one would expect to see this on the west coast. But today we are talking about Minneapolis, Minnesota. The City Council, in their apparent drug addled wisdom, have decided to defund the police department. They apparently believe that police are just too mean and that laws should only be regarded as suggestions. And they are serious. 

Now, let us consider just what a major city like Minneapolis would look like with no police department. Crime would be rampant. No legitimate business could survive. Banks would have to close their doors. People would be killed and injured by speeding motorists. No one would be safe in their homes. All of the citizens, for their own protection, would have to be armed. Murder and mayhem would be the order of the day. Obviously no city could ever survive long without police protection. 

Left wingnuts steeped in political correctness and probably barely able to function as humans can't seem to put the dots together. 

I said earlier that one might expect this kind of nonsense on the west coast and Los Angeles hasn't disappointed. Their city council is considering a similar law. Defund the police and we'll all sit around the campfire and sing Kumbaya. This seems to me to be the work of drug addled brains. Now several other cities are also considering this defunding nonsense. They mostly seem to be cities filled with left wingnuts governed by left wingnuts. 

If any of these cities actually pass such laws, I have a suggestion for other major cities who try to obey laws and protect their citizens. Take out full page ads in your local newspapers and on TV advising thugs and crooks that they can go to places like Minneapolis and Los Angeles and any of the others to commit their crimes and rob and steal with impunity. There is no punishment for law breaking because there is no law enforcement. 

Crime would necessarily be reduced in the well-governed cities because the bad guys would go to where they can ply their trade freely. To me it seems a perfect solution. The good guys get to reduce their crime and the morons who defunded the police departments get to deal with the mess they caused for themselves. Problem solved. 

America is a free country. We believe in law and order. We enact laws to protect people and property and they are enacted for the good of all. Granted there are a few bad cops. There are far more bad guys. Anarchy exists. There are people who want to forever change our system of government. It is up to the sane adults to take a firm stance. Our system is ours to protect or to lose.

Some years ago I wrote in a column about an incident concerning some people unhappy with the police. I recalled in the sixties the hippies calling the police pigs. In the column I suggested that if you thought the police were pigs, the next time you're in trouble call a hippie. See how that works for you. 

Without enforcement, any laws are unnecessary and unimportant. Law would be unenforceable.  This whole idea of eliminating police is stupid. It plays right into the hands of the anarchists. We all should be thankful people who choose to be police officers exist and we should tell them so. Thank you officers for your selfless service.

Ron Scarbro June 7, 2020