Agenda revealed

Some on the left have been using the law enforcement responses to the protesting and rioting to propel calls to Abolish the Police, saying that the cops are violent thugs, and that the social problems like mental illness and homelessness and drug addictions that we have been leaving for the police to handle should be addressed through nonviolent social interventions. Minneapolis City Council members have been talking about this, and about the new programs that they want to create.

But addressing social problems top-down through government intervention maximizes the resources needed, while minimizing the effectiveness of their utilization. The Bible very strongly says that this should happen from the bottom up:  personal responsibility, then family members caring for each other, on up through neighbors, extended family, local worshiping community, city, clan, tribe, nation. The main job at the higher levels is to protect the lower levels from predation and to strongly discourage behavior that is obviously dysfunctional. At the lower levels, close connections between people motivate them to cooperate and help each other, which minimizes the need to draw from the resources of the broader community, and so maintains overall stability and sustainability.

That’s not what the Abolish the Police people are proposing to do. Instead of a police state, they want to create a Nanny State on Steroids. Neglecting to mention that there would still be a big helping of Police State on the side.

It makes more sense if you realize that the primary goal of the people in back of it all is to gain power, not to have a healthy society. Instead of restricting freedom only through the use of physical force, they want to also use therapeutic force...”It’s for your own good, you know.”  Which is terrifying, because while a police beating will end at some point, therapy can go on indefinitely.  It’s basically the same thing as in that famous C. S. Lewis quote about do-gooders, and as he portrayed it all playing out in That Hideous Strength. It has already been partially accomplished.

One of their steps that preceded Abolish the Police was to Abolish the Family. That’s not yet complete, but they have been working hard at it for generations. It was probably Abolish the Faith before that. They work to create social problems, and then “solve” them, and when the solutions don’t work, they take it up a notch and “solve” them some more.

So when I look at the videos of police brutality that they have harvested from the protests and riots, I am getting quite angry about how callous they are about using peaceful protestors as pawns in this campaign to seize and extend power. The protestors serve both as cover for rioters to escalate the level of violence, and as photogenic victims of the police retaliation...the more blood, the better for the Cause.