Good Cop, Bad Cop
Thursday October 09, 2008
The Sheriff of Cook's County in Illinois refuses to execute anymore evictions because they hurt people. While he says it isn't fair to renters who have paid their rent, it isn't much fairer to people to who can't afford their payments, either. The story is here.
In Massachusetts, police are harassing people who are workers as flaggers on road construction projects. Their sense of entitlement is coming through loud and clear. That story is here.
Understand the crack in the social fabric that is going on here! The perpetual problem of government is who will watch the watchers.
Both are breaking the law to some extent, but one is trying to protect other people whereas the other is trying to protect themselves. This is the great moral divide that leads to civil war.
There are those with political power who always put themselves first (might equals right,) and those that are more compassionate (right equals might.) The former are the stiff-necked who are well documented in history. When they fall, they fall hard, reaping what they sowed. The proud are sure that they cannot be humbled, but their time will come. The mirror is a treacherous place.
So what do we have? Good cop and bad cop. It is a good example of the problem with stereotypes. People are not good or bad because of their job, but because of how they do their job.
It is also worth remembering that the Boston Massacre started because a Redcoat was late with a payment to a local banker. Whom shall we blame, the lender or the debtor? The rich or the poor? The powerful or the weak? Welcome to the paradox that majority rule cannot solve. The cops will be evicting their own eventually. Will they follow the rules then?
There is a reason why all men must be equal. Once you put someone above you, they become proud and arrogant. The hierarchy of our current government does not make anybody equal, and the redundancy of checks and balances makes corrections impossible. Nevertheless, it is good to see that the Sheriff has broken ranks to do what is right. We will not have a solution until the stiff-necked repent and embrace moral courage. All is forgiven.
Keep in mind that as many people have been evicted from their houses as were killed in the Holocaust. While their final destination was not a boxcar, the bitter ruthlessness is exactly the same. If you have ever wondered how the Germans could have been so blind to the terror going on in their society, ask yourself how it is that you just came to realize the scale of this problem in your society. The blind see what they want to see: Nothing.
In Massachusetts, police are harassing people who are workers as flaggers on road construction projects. Their sense of entitlement is coming through loud and clear. That story is here.
Understand the crack in the social fabric that is going on here! The perpetual problem of government is who will watch the watchers.
Both are breaking the law to some extent, but one is trying to protect other people whereas the other is trying to protect themselves. This is the great moral divide that leads to civil war.
There are those with political power who always put themselves first (might equals right,) and those that are more compassionate (right equals might.) The former are the stiff-necked who are well documented in history. When they fall, they fall hard, reaping what they sowed. The proud are sure that they cannot be humbled, but their time will come. The mirror is a treacherous place.
So what do we have? Good cop and bad cop. It is a good example of the problem with stereotypes. People are not good or bad because of their job, but because of how they do their job.
It is also worth remembering that the Boston Massacre started because a Redcoat was late with a payment to a local banker. Whom shall we blame, the lender or the debtor? The rich or the poor? The powerful or the weak? Welcome to the paradox that majority rule cannot solve. The cops will be evicting their own eventually. Will they follow the rules then?
There is a reason why all men must be equal. Once you put someone above you, they become proud and arrogant. The hierarchy of our current government does not make anybody equal, and the redundancy of checks and balances makes corrections impossible. Nevertheless, it is good to see that the Sheriff has broken ranks to do what is right. We will not have a solution until the stiff-necked repent and embrace moral courage. All is forgiven.
Keep in mind that as many people have been evicted from their houses as were killed in the Holocaust. While their final destination was not a boxcar, the bitter ruthlessness is exactly the same. If you have ever wondered how the Germans could have been so blind to the terror going on in their society, ask yourself how it is that you just came to realize the scale of this problem in your society. The blind see what they want to see: Nothing.
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