America's Fundamental Problem with Authority
- Fred
- 14 hours ago
- 6 min read
If you passed 4th grade history, you know that America fought the Revolutionary War because they didn't want to pay taxes to that arrogant bastard King George III.
But that was over 200 years ago. Who are the Kings today?
If you're a Democrat, you are screaming that Donald Trump is a King/Nazi Hybrid, slaughtering people in the streets.
If you're a Republican, you are screaming that Immigrants are massacring American Citizens on mass transit. The "King" is the "deep state" that allows immigration
What is really happening is that two giant corporations, the Democrats and Republicans, continue to scare you as they grow the government. The Democrats want their type of leadership and the Republicans, who used to tout fiscal responsibility, now tout their style of growing government. Your enemy should be the rich of both parties that exploit you, but the parties have brainwashed you into believing that the other party is the problem.
Government should shrink, with power shifted back to the citizens, instead of to the party apparatus. America, since the second world war, has been a nation of safety nets. Over the past few years, that has evolved into a nation of entitlements. There are plenty of jobs to go around for everyone, but not enough GOOD jobs.
No matter what Western Nation you want to cite, they cannot support a huge influx of immigrants, that's why ICE was created by George Bush in 2003. (Yes, ICE is over 20 years old.)
Libertarians have been consistent, from the start, that ICE shouldn't exist at all. If an immigrant breaks the law, he/she should be arrested by local law enforcement and deported if the crime merits. If an immigrant sets up a crime syndicate, that's a job for the FBI. ICE shouldn't be sweeping neighborhoods looking for immigrants.
Do you know why ICE is specifically in Minnesota? It is all political payback. ICE is currently operating in many states untouched and unfettered. Right now, between Donald Trump's anger over the George Floyd riots, and his rivalry with Tim Walz, he is using Minneapolis as an example to scare his political rivals.
Editor's Note: Kamala Harris is unemployed, or else Trump would be doing the same thing in San Francisco.
But a more fundamental question should be is: Why do we mistrust ICE so much? There has been mistrust of military/law enforcement entities my entire life.
Vietnam Soldiers (1965-1975) - 19 year-olds were drafted and dropped in the jungles of Vietnam with no clear directives. In hindsight, Vietnam was nothing more than a scrimmage in the Cold War, a practice war, if you will. How do I figure? The Americans won nearly every tactical engagement, but somehow lost the war due to strategic failures from their leaders in the United States. Protests against the war raged across America, that is well documented, but when the soldiers returned home, they were shunned, unhirable, and called baby-killers. Now historians agree that we should have never been there, but the soldiers paid the societal consequences when they got back to the states. Were any leaders ever jailed for a failed Vietnam Policy? Of course not. Unintended Consequences: We got rid of the Draft and went with the All-Volunteer Army. Now, if a soldier doesn't like what's going on, they are greeted with "you signed up for this." Most in the military sign up, not to be the world's policemen, but to gamble on the promise of free college. Vietnam Soldiers were American Citizens, just like you and me.
Local Urban Police Forces (1970's - Today) - As long as I can remember, there have been skirmishes in the Culture Wars in America's Big Cities. Blacks don't care about Black on Black Crime. Whites don't care about White on White Crime. But, man, you have a White Cop kill a Black Teen, and that is political fire. Locally, the Tamir Rice shooting was a lightning rod in Cleveland for years. Republicans, as a team, err on the side of the police. Democrats, as a team, err on the side of the criminal and/or citizen. Whenever there's a moral gray area, Democrats take to the streets, rightly or wrongly. Since Day 1 of the Beacon of Speech Blog, one of our core themes is that being a cop in the Big City is an unmitigated nightmare. Unintended Consequences: Almost every big city in America is struggling with staffing issues. I say it all the time, if you're a minority in a big city, don't hate the police, become the police: THEY ARE HIRING. Police Officers are American Citizens, just like you and me.
Editor's Note: At my day job, I hired 2 retired Cleveland Police Officers. They are great workers, they work at the schools as a bridge job from Cop Retirement to Real Retirement. There is a lot of information that I know that will not be shared on the Blog.
ICE (2022 - Today) - Against my better judgement, I am on Bluesky, I really like the way it works. The problem with Bluesky is two-fold: First, it's like an abandoned mall, hardly anyone I know in real life is there. And secondly, but more importantly for our conversation, it is a haven for Far-Lefties. I have read on Bluesky that ICE officials aren't real cops, aren't real government employees, and not real people. Listen, I have already spelled out that ICE shouldn't exist, but I don't blurt out things like ICE enforcement officials aren't real people, that is absurd. When it comes to the 2 ICE related deaths in Minnesota, one SEEMS to be the protestor's fault, and one SEEMS to be ICE's fault. Both sides of the political aisle were looking for a confrontation. Unintended Consequences: The ICE situation is going to change the battle lines in the 2028 election. ICE Officials are American Citizens, just like you and me.
Police are a necessary evil in any society. You stay out of the policeman's way, and the policeman should stay out of your way, that's the way it should work. Police are restricted by what they can and can't do by the Constitution. Right now, ICE, in certain instances, is overstepping its bounds.
You think that I'm a lousy Libertarian? Life happens in split-second increments, sometimes you have to keep your head on a swivel. In a heated situation, police are taught to de-escalate when possible. When someone is in your face, everyone reacts in a different way. And even if you are arrested, that doesn't mean you're guilty and sent off to jail. We are all about Prison Reform at Beacon of Speech, incarceration rates in America should be around .25% instead of 1%.
Since the Revolutionary War days, no one in America wants to do what they're told, but in polite society, we have to have referees.
From Covid Protests to ICE Protests, the common denominator is that the U.S. Government has gotten too big and has been weaponized by both parties.
The solution is a smaller federal government, more individual rights, more responsible spending, and less taxes. Which party is championing that? Neither of them. The sad part is that most Americans agree with that statement, but they've been tricked into thinking that their neighbor is the enemy and will vote the same way as they did in the last election.
I want you to think about this for a moment. If Donald Trump was the worst president in history, why aren't the Democrats gaining traction for 2028? It's because their policies have forgotten the Average American. The Average American wants its government to leave them alone.
Most immigrants are good.
Most police are good.
You need systems to deport bad immigrants, and you need systems to remove bad police officers from their forces.
Everything under the Protesting Orange should be common sense.
But think about that line in orange type for a moment.
And then there's this from the late Yuri Bezmenov's Fan Page:
How did Clinton deport all those people if ICE didn't exist?
Editor's Note II: My wife says I am too blasé about this entire situation. She is a nurse and says that Alex Pretti is a martyr. She wants me to go to an ICE OUT Rally.
It appears that she is correct about Pretti, but I can't shake the fact that in the last month, the police have killed 2 protestors in America and the police have killed 20,000 protestors in Iran.
There are going to be trials in relation to those 2 protestor deaths, just you wait. People forget that the officer who killed George Floyd is incarcerated right now.
I just have a real problem sympathizing with someone who tries to run over an officer with their car or confronts an officer, nose to nose, and screams in their face. You and I have the right to protest, but harassing a cop doesn't change any policy. I have to be clear for my Libertarian Brethren, yelling at a police officer should never be a death sentence.
Would the Founding Fathers approve of us protesting ICE? That's the wrong question. They would be aghast that both Political Parties have so much power to manipulate its citizens.
And, for the upteenth time, whenever there's a riot, we post the same video. Jello Biafra wrote an universal truth: