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What's Wrong With Rights?

• Lewrockwell.com

The Gov had just vetoed a bill making strong-arm robbery as illegal for police as it is for anyone else.

The theory goes that government, the same crew running courts and paying judges, is overwhelmingly disadvantaged in the arena of "justice." Prosecutors only have a chance to save the world against opponents with both hands tied behind their backs. Public safety depends on heroes who can rifle our belongings and take what they want. Months and thousands of dollars later judicial proceedings will decide if we are entitled to our stuff. The gang that represents "the people," on the streets and before the bar, can't understand hostility to such a sound arrangement.

This thriving shakedown operation is a mutant outgrowth of a brainchild from the 1960's.

Toward the end of that decade an open American secret known as the mob started to embarrass the government. Joe Valachi was talking and The Godfather was moving up NYT bestseller charts. The FBI was in serious danger of a confrontation with the truth. Either it had accommodated the Cosa Nostra for 50 years or was oblivious to its existence. Facts, as the newsmen they paid off used to say, are stubborn things.


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