Representative Government or Free Range Prison? Though Thousands Want Police Budgets Reduced MD Governor Increases Funding to Surveil All Law Abiding Blacks Under the Guise of Catching a Few Criminals

From [HERE] Governor Larry Hogan on Friday launched a new initiative to boost resources for law enforcement across Maryland.

Hogan dubbed it "Refund the Police," in sarcastic reaction to the growing national "Defund the Police" movement which he called "far-left lunacy."

[Here, the media is referencing a “growing Defund the Police movement.” Really? where is their headquarters? “Defund the Police” was nothing ever more than a message on a sign, let alone being an actual crafted policy proposed to “legistraitors.” The BLM platform basically seeks enforcement of the status quo; ‘please punish cops when they kill or harm people and train them better to control us.’ People for years however, have asked that the police budgets be reduced to go along with falling crime rates over the past twenty years. In fact, in Baltimore, a source of ridicule by racists, crime decreased in cases of violent crime and homicide last year. Year over year, Baltimore had a 50-case decrease in homicides according to FBI data. [MORE] As such, the media is lying to us on behalf of their masters. The real threat from defunding the police is the reality that police services provided by the government can be summarily replaced by private security, who unlike police are controllable and hirable and fireable by the people or community who employ them. Most importantly private security have no right to initiate unprovoked acts of violence on people because they would have no legal and moral right to rule over us. Thus, much much more than a slogan on a sign is the idea of Replace the Police.]

The initiative calls for $150 million in funding towards increased crime control, victim protection services, and pay raises for state law enforcement.

Broken down, the overall initiative would provide:

• $50 million to fund salary increases and hiring bonuses to ensure competitive compensation for state police agencies.

• $45 million for a 50% increase in state police aid to local jurisdictions.

• $24 million to create an Accountability Resources Fund for body cams, de-escalation training.

• $1 million for Maryland Chiefs of Police Association and Maryland Sheriff's Association to expand operational training and support.

• $10 million in Neighborhood Safety Grants through the State Department of Housing’s Main Street Maryland Program for hardware upgrades and increased security services for business districts.

• $14 million in ARPA funds to restore the drastic cuts by Congress to VOCA funding.

• $6 million to restore cuts by the Maryland General Assembly for critical victims programs and initiatives.

“The reality is that our police are underfunded and under attack," said Hogan. "To reverse the tide of rising crime, we need to stop demonizing and sabotaging the dedicated men and women who risk their lives every single day to keep the rest of us safe. We cannot defund the police, we need to re-fund the police.”

Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones pushed back, saying Hogan's comments were "beneath him and the dignity of his office."

POLICE ARE NOT HERE TO PROTECT AND HELP US. Alex Vitale explains “It is largely a fantasy that the police exist to protect us from the bad guys.” Cops are used to manage a white over Black system of unequal power and unequal conditions. Their “authority” is used to manage the behaviors of non-white people within this free range prison. In a crimeogenic society elite racists make sure a large number of non-white people live under conditions causing them to commit crimes with a goal towards placing them in greater confinement. Dr. Blynd plainly states, “People who are awake see cops are mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate state - colonized, surveilled and patrolled by the desensitized and lobotomized drones of the colonizers.” Our status as “enemies and slaves” will remain so long as we are subjected to governmental authority in a white over Black system.

REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. Larken Rose explains, “An even more prevalent lie, used to try to hide the master-slave relationship between “government” and the public, is the notion of “representative government.” The claim is that the people, by electing certain individuals into positions of power, are “choosing their leaders” and that those in office are merely representing the will of the people. Again, not only does this claim not at all match reality, but the underlying abstract theory is inherently flawed as well.

In the real world, so-called “representative governments” are constantly doing things their subjects do not want them to do: increasing “taxes,” engaging in warmongering, selling off power and influence to whoever gives them the most money, and so on. Every taxpayer can easily think of examples of things funded with his mane) that he objects to, whether it be handouts to huge corporations, handouts to certain individuals, government actions that infringe on individual rights, or just the overall wasteful, corrupt, inefficient bureaucratic machine of “government.” There is no one who can honestly say that” government” does everything that he wants and nothing that he does not want.

Even in theory, the concept of “representative government” is inherently flawed, because “government” cannot possibly represent the people as a whole unless everyone wants exactly the same thing. Because different people want “government” to do different things, “government” will always be going against the will of at least some of the people.

Even if a “government” did exactly what a majority of its subjects wanted (which never actually happens), it would not be serving the people as a whole; it would be forcibly victimizing smaller groups on behalf of larger groups.

Furthermore, one who represents someone else cannot have more rights than the one he represents. To wit, if one person has no right to break into his neighbor’s house and steal his valuables, then he also has no right to designate a representative to do that for him, To represent someone is to act on his behalf, and a true representative can only do what the person he represents has the right to do. But in the case of “government,” the people whom the politicians claim to represent have no right to do anything that politicians do: impose “taxes,” enact “laws,” etc. Average citizens have no right to forcibly control the choices of their neighbors, tell them how to live their lives, and punish them if they disobey, So when a “government” does such things, it is not representing anyone or anything but itself.

Interestingly, even those who talk about “representative government” refuse to accept any personal responsibility for actions taken by those for whom they voted. If their candidate of choice enacts a harmful “law,” or raises “taxes,” or wages war, the voters never feel the same guilt or shame they would feel if they themselves had personally done such things, or had hired or instructed someone else to do such things. This fact demonstrates that even the most enthusiastic voters do not actually believe the rhetoric about “representative government,” and do not view politicians as their representatives. The terminology does not match reality, and the only purpose of the rhetoric is to obfuscate the fact that the relationship between every “government” and its subjects is the same as the relationship between a master and a slave. One master may whip his slaves less severely than another; one master may allow his slaves to keep more of what they produce; one master may take better care of his slaves – but none of that changes the basic, underlying nature of the master-slave relationship. The one with the right to rule is the master; the one with the obligation to obey is the slave. And that is true even when people choose to describe the situation using inaccurate rhetoric and deceptive euphemisms, such as “representative government,” “consent of the governed,” and “will of the people.”

The notion of “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people,” while it makes nice feel-good political rhetoric, is a logical impossibility. A ruling class cannot serve or represent those it rules any more than a slave owner can serve or represent his slaves. The only way he could do so is by ceasing to be a slave owner, by freeing his

slaves. Likewise, the only way a ruling class could become a servant of the people is by ceasing to be a ruling class, by relinquishing all of its power. “Government” cannot serve the people unless it ceases to be “government.” [MORE]