July 15, 2007
by Evans Munyemesha

So true a maxim it is that  a man is what he is said to be: A man said to be a representative of God will conduct himself in a manner and dress as one; a man said to be able to cure leprosy with his spit will put a higher value on his spit; a man said to be a woman will acquire a disposition to reflect femininity; a man said to be a celebrity will adopt mannerisms associated with that status; a race of men said to be superior than other races will not fail us in trying to prove that claim by whatever means.

Similarly, it should not surprise us that a gang of men and women picked from the streets, equipped with instruments of pain and death, and trained to ?Dominate: Intimidate: Control,' and then set loose into society to maintain order will not hesitate to be what they are said to be: Dominators. Intimidators. Controllers. This is to say that they are human predators! But where you have predators, you must necessarily have prey!

It is immaterial to the law enforcement men and women to try and understand the true cause of order and harmony in any settled society---especially that many of them have a distaste for good learning. A law enforcement officer is typically someone who is less inclined naturally towards the development of mental faculties through further education and thus more inclined towards the development of physical powers as a means by which to subsist. The police officer, therefore, is typically more brawny and less brainy.

A person of refined reasoning powers opts for an occupation that encourages mental stimulation while a person of inferior reasoning powers finds pleasure in the overdevelopment of physical attributes, and thence the pool from which  a police recruit will spring is replete with ruffians, imbeciles, thugs, social misfits and control freaks.

While all social classes are constituted by individuals bearing these undesirables in different degrees, in a police force  they are reinforced or fortified by the nature of the occupation that includes the State-sanction of conformity in thought, and possession of an assortment of weapons with which to  torment other citizens at the slightest provocation and with the flimsiest of excuses, particularly that what is said to be criminal is nothing but what the State chooses to define as a crime.

The law enforcement officer, naturally inferior in intellect but superficially superior in social rank, is set out to save society from imagined chaos. Where chaos is absent, it must be created.  To a police man an increase in disorder justifies an increase in regulation and force. Lost in the melee of law enforcement is the fact that beneficial social relations are always a product of free enterprise.

But a person with a disoriented moral compass and a coarse mental character, trained to assume the nature of a wild predator, with members of his community as his prey, is thus, with the blessings of the State, set loose onto his community under the pretext of preserving social order. Yet, it is evident that the most policed localities are the most disordered---Los Angeles, Detroit, Miami, Chicago, Memphis, Washington D.C., St Louis, Phoenix, Oakland, Macon, Atlanta, Compton, Orlando---you name them!

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A police officer as hunter among the members of the community and parasite in that same community must necessarily induce a social ailment as certainly as a wolf must induce one among sheep in a pen. Scarcely persuaded a police officer is to know why he should enforce a given law; where little persuaded, the interest takes the course of looking at a law as a worship-worthy edict; where that persuasion is prominent, a pretext for its enforcement must be found even at the expense of justice itself and good judgment. This must be so for there to be a police officer, justice must be sacrificed as the pursuit of justice through arbitrary law enforcement is an ideal foreign to a truly free society.

While the police officer's life could have no order, nor is there proof of him having achieved anything of worth privately, he still accepts the impossible task of bringing order in everyone's life. With him on the loose, disorder, crime, chaos, injustice, and corruption multiplies. How so? Now that the need for permanent police work hinges on permanent  social disorder, it is thus seen that it is not in the interests of the law enforcer to end disorder; it is to his benefit to exacerbate it. His job depends on increased social confusion for to end disorder would mean that he would be without a job.

The harassment, stop and search, the punishment of harmless conduct such as seat belt laws, speeding, jaywalking, public misconduct , intoxication, lewdness, prostitution, sodomy, and other petty vices, racial profiling, brutality, riots, etc all inflamed by the law enforcers are not singular or isolated incidents of accident: They are wholly a natural outcome of the law enforcement's establishment ?s desire to justify its existence in a world that is slowly waking up to realize that no public and central authority is necessary for law enforcement for people to live safely and peacefully. But as the multiplication of laws must justify the police force, inevitably, it must as well justify its expansion. But why does man accept this monstrosity within his midst? It seems to me that man must first endure impositions such as the police force before he could find the true nature of his existence and the causes of order in his society.

That which regulates both social and economic relations among men are impersonal forces that no selection of men in any age, and however wise, could ably and competently enforce or duplicate. The designation of police authority to a few men whether as law enforcement officers particularly or the State generally is simply imposing an artificial and evidently inferior political mechanism over a natural and superior order of existence.

It will require the exercise of keen-sightedness and a willingness to question convention or traditional wisdom to recognize that the innumerable social and economic ills that are an ugly constant companion of society, ever preying upon all nations, harassing private enterprise, holding back the energies of individuals, are traceable in part to the unnatural evil called public law enforcement.

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Evans Munyemesha [send him email] is author of soon to be released libertarian book, "Poverty: A Treatise On Its Principal Cause"