Free Market Violence

At a party the other day an erstwhile conservative candidate for office was questioning me on anarchy, and of course threw out the "big question," how about police and border defense, if no government.  I pointed the "police experiment" has been going on for maybe a 150 years, and so far has not worked out.  And the founding fathers assumed no standing military, and had none, but nonetheless when oppressed farmers got their guns and whipped the UK, the most powerful military in the world at the time.

But now is different! No, the Vietnamese farmers, when oppressed, got their guns and beat the most powerful military, the USA.  The Afghanis did it to USSR, and are doing it to USA.  (They had help when they beat USSR..! so did USA when we beat the UK, and so do the Afghanis now... it does not change it can be done, in fact it is the way it goes.)

What did we do before we had police? Well, we did not have drug laws, which is what keeps most law enforcement occupied.  We did not have government controlling so much, so free markets ruled.  We had courts, but they were mandatory, and very many people did not want, both sides, to submit to a court.  So we had dueling.  Vice President Aaron Burr shot and killed the very evil Alexander Hamilton.

But we cannot have dueling!  Why would it be any of your business?  But it is barbaric! Isn't 30% of black males at sometime jailed barbaric?  But they break the law!  They break specially targeted drug laws, and being convicted is no indication of being guilty, in USA, as DNA evidence keeps showing.

But what about drug dealers in the neighborhood?  A throwback to much older times, the USPO simply stops delivering mail to that street when a dog bites a mail carrier.  People on that street must go to the post office to pick up their mail until the dog is gone.  No cops, no dog catchers, no storming a family home by swat teams who "fear for their lives" just old-fashioned shunning.  The same system the old-fashioned Amish use when someone misbehaves.

The great thing about shunning as a policing mechanism is the entire community is involved, and everyone freely votes their own conscience: was what he did so bad that I should not even give him a ham sandwich, or not.  Usually, the punishment fits the crime: you are shunned by the amount of people who view this about right.  There is always some consequence, as in the punishment tends to fit the crime.  You have to go and explain yourself to people if you want "back in." If no one will even give you a ham sandwich, you better repent or move on.

The entire diamond trade is policed through shunning, and in general is the large part of decency and standards setting.

No cops, no jails, no trials, just free market non violent community based policing.  But what about the homicidal maniac?  Scare any man, even an Amish, and contrary to all philosophy and religion, he just might instinctively lash out and sink a pitch fork in your chest.  And then he'll run the risk of ever getting a ham sandwich or not.  Call it free market violence.

Back when there were no cops to protect mail carriers (we had mail carriers long before cops) the post office came up with a way to deal with dog bites... shun the neighborhood, the neighborhood will sort out the bad dog.  The post office still does this.  In this report on nothing new, what is new is the slant on the article which makes the USPO the bad guys.

The US Govt tasked the CIA long ago with infiltrating media to promote government policies.  One carrer made by the CIA was Gloria Steinem of Ms. Magazine.  She claims never to have never been asked to inform on progressives, but as one fellow pointed out, the CIA knew the never had to ask.

You do not have to tell what Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh what to say, they will say it anyway.  You simply give them 600 stations and pay for it with "Go Army" ads and they will say what they would say anyway.

In his book laying out Wurlitzer,  Hugh Wilford comes away with a generl approval but a conclusion Wurlitzer ended.  I sincerely doubt it, after watching First Things magazine going from questioning the legitimacy of the US Supreme court to featuring articles by Victor David Hansen.

When I see such a coordinated assault by main stream media on government workers and unions, it is clear the game is up.  70% of the firefighters in USA are volunteer.  Overnight the Samurai were dismissed in Japan.   The process of eliminating government overbloating has started.  First win the hearts and minds of the people.  The divide and conquer (first nail the teachers, then the cops).

I was speaking to a retired firefighter the other day who say in 1964 when he applied there were 3 applications for 7 positions.  Last week there were 500 applications for one position.

What is gone is an America when we did not need cops, and an America that was free of senseless interference so there were better things to do than become cops, or firefighters, or whatever.  Getting back there will take far more than firing people.  We have to cut back on senseless interference too.

But as soon as the modern state defined itself as a monopoly on violence within a given territory, the state became illegitimate, and anarchy became imperative.  No one should have a monopoly on anything, if so, we have no free market.  USA cannot have a free market as long as the government has a monopoly on violence.

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