AKIron: Are you seriously advocating we do away with our police? I am seriously advocating doing away with any socialist institutions in favor of free-market solutions. That means state-run police, education, retirement, healthcare, etc.
Perhaps in your past experience police did little more than oppress and subjugate but in our society they serve the people. That's just rhetoric. Soviet policemen were also serving the people and protecting us from criminals.
Or, go live somewhere else. You do have that freedom in America, unlike in your country of origin until recent years. I do have freedoms in some areas, not in others. I do not argue that less communism is better than more communism.
I disagree with you that any communism is necessary.
Hmmmm, why did you come to America? To have less communisn, of course! I did not know it would have so many supporters here.
-Concho-: Miko who would regulate your private police force and to whom whould they answer? There are whole books on the subject. We have plenty of crucial services provided by private market. They are "regulated" by customers though competition and can be sertified or licensed by existing or new private accreditation institutions or even by the government.
You seem to be really hung up on pot smokers and seat belt violators. It costs me a lot of money to have them harassed. And those are only two of many activities that have nothing to do with my protection.
You do control your police force through votes. And jews in Germany controlled theirs through their votes, so they must have been ok, right?
The majority can vote to force me do anything they want, so what? Even if I join the majority party, my vote would be 1/2000000 of the total, hardly an influence. When I buy something from a private supplier, my every vote is unanimous and decisive. That's influence.
I am amazed that you feel like your tax dollars are extortion money for police. If I do not pay them - because I feel no need of the services offered in return, the armen people would break into my house, take away my property, kidnap me or kill me if I resist. That's pretty much what I call extortion.
My roofer cannot do that to force me to pay for his fixing a roof somewhere else.
It's obvious that you have a negitive view of police Not really. I would gladly have police - maybe even the same individuals or better ones, if it was provided in a free market competition, not in a socialist coercive way.
I need food more than I need police and I am fine with private supply. Same with transport, healtcare and many others.
It seems to me though you would not be happy unless you lived on a small island where you had total control. Total control over my life and my property.
Basically, give me the America of the Founding Fathers (minus slavery, of course) and I will be a happy camper!
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Dune: it's somewhat remarkable that that the state allows the average citizen to tell them who is guilty by way of jury... The state allows? It seems you believe that the state is superior to the individual. For your information this is
supposed to be a free country where the state serves the people, not the other way around.
miko
