Defund the police? Be careful what you wish for.

POSTED ONAUGUST 11, 2020

When There Are No Police, Most Crimes Will Carry the Death Penalty

I fear vigilantism and “lynch law” are about to make a comeback, because in the absence of the even-handed, objective rule of law, there’s little alternative.

When the “rule of law” makes no sense, vigilante law takes over – Bayou Renaissance Man

Peter is right. The work I have been doing lately has shown me that Peter’s words are right on the money, but he is missing something: People will enjoy lynching too much and will do anything to

keep it.

Lynching today is but a nasty historical fact that is taught is school. What it is not taught is what took to curb that very well established custom and how long it took to make it stick.  This is from the famous child murder  of Mary Phagan in 1915:

Leo Frank was not some poor black sharecropper who stole a watermelon and got murdered by the Klan, but a White factory superintendent who murdered  13-year-old employee, Mary Phagan, in Atlanta, Georgia.  Mob rule was strong enough and its lure insidious enough that they managed to overpower and corrupt established Law and Order so they could satiate their thirst for revenge. Again, the whole local justice system was compromised because the population did not find Vigilantism barbaric, nor there was a fear of punishment for engaging in such behavior.

And you will say that why I am giving a break or having feelings for a child murderer: I don’t, but “exceptions” to the rule of law soon become the norm and soon enough it is not being hung from the nearest telephone pole for murder but for a cross word or a perceived insult.

We can’t complain that the Opposition has different rules and different laws according to the political belief and at the same time glorify extra-judicial killings.