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WorldNetDaily: People power, not police power
between the lines Joseph Farah WND Exclusive Commentary
Posted: September 27, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
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The biggest manhunt I ever saw – the one for “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez in California in 1985 – quickly came to an end, too, when police allowed those of us in the press to publish a sketch. The mass murderer was nearly lynched by civilians the morning the paper came out. The police had to rescue the killer of 13 who had terrorized the entire state for more than a year.
It’s people power – and we need more of it in the U.S. today. We don’t need a Department of Homeland Security – we need an army of responsible, motivated, vigilant, self-governing people entrusted by their government officials with their inalienable right to bear arms. And we need a government that recognizes it is not all-knowing and all-powerful and stops treating its citizens like helpless children.
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We learned in Katrina, that when the good citizens of NOLA left, law and order left with them.
So why do we credit the police with an orderly law-abiding society?
It is the people, using:
(a) their willingness to follow a law;
(b) their moral authority of a group agreement,
(c) their willingness to police themselves, and others,
(d) their willingness to support the police (remember how many people will help their police when the situation warrants),
(e) their willingness to convict the guilty (remember that juries have had, since the pre-Revolutionary War Zenger trial, the right to judge the Constitutionality of any law under which the government seeks to use to gain a conviction), AND
(f) their willingness not to protest over an issue thru their elected representatives.
The people ARE the police. (Remember the old westerns when the sheriff swears in deputies for a posse?)
Peace, law, and order are due to us!
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