I regularly see an armed government worker – some people still bound by their government school conditioning would use the word “policeman” – who likes to hide by the side of an old building up the road from my house; he snugs his vehicle up against the side of the old building and in the shade of a big tree so that it is very hard to see him.
He sits there quietly, like one of those trap door spiders that hides in a little burrow so its prey cannot see it, waiting for the prey to get close a . . . and the trap is sprung. Out rushes the spider to ensnare its prey. Are not armed government workers who lurk in hiding for their prey similar insofar as regards their tactics? – and does it not beg an important question?
If – as we are assured – the object of the exercise is to tamp down what is styled “speeding” (and accepted as being something not merely illegal but also dangerous by the same people whose government schooling causes them to not think much about the distinction between illegal and dangerous) then would it not make more sense to hide in plain sight? If “speeders” – as people who drive even 1 MPH faster than whatever speed the government’s sign says is the maximum allowed are by definition – are a danger then that danger would be reduced via the obvious presence of speed limit enforcers. But – on the contrary – it is evident that the government wants people to “speed” so as to have the excuse to extract money from as many of them as possible via a tag-team of speed limits set so low almost everyone becomes a “speeder” and so potential prey for the trap-door spider who hides and waits.
This even extends to camouflaging the vehicles used to catch “speeders.” In the past, police – I use the term in this sentence because at one time they were more deserving of the honorific – drove clearly marked, clearly visible police cars. They were often two-tone and had (typically) large-font lettering – POLICE – on the doors and clearly visible bubble gum machine emergency lights on their roofs. They were easy to see and on account of that fact, served as a deterrent to “speeders” who saw them.
Isn’t that what was wanted?
Obviously not.
Today, the typical vehicle driven by an armed government worker is very hard to see until it is too late. They are painted in the manner of warships, to be harder to identify accurately, especially from a distance. The POLICE lettering is regularly shaded such that it often cannot be see until you’re already too close and the wig-wag lights are buried behind the grille where you cannot see them until they are turned on and by then it is too late. Even more telling is the way these human arachnids deliberately hide so as to not alert their soon-to-be-victims to their presence.
There is – again – only one explanation that makes sense for this. It is that the whole affair is about money – not “safety.” This armed government I see regularly probably extracts thousands of dollars from his victims each week. Some of this “revenue” – the term used by government-school-conditioned non-thinkers to express what they are taught never to think of as other people’s money, taken from them by the government via its enforcers – ends up paying the enforcer to enforce. The genius of the thing is the way it is intellectually laundered. It is made respectable by making it procedural. Forms to sign and checks to be written rather than having to just hand over money to a strong-arm Guido who shows up at your place of business one day to demand money – or else. The government does the same thing, just elliptically.
In the name of keeping us safe.
That none of us do feel safe whenever we notice the presence of an armed government worker – especially if he is in our rearview and riding our bumper – is extremely telling. Why would people who are not criminals fear and loathe the police? Why, because they are not criminals.
And they are not police.
This article was originally published on Eric Peters Autos.
