millions of our hard earned tax money on personal security.
Someone once said that government officials that want to disarm the public suck at governing and I think they are right. If they are afraid of their constituency there's generally a reason for it.
Further up the food chain security seems to make a sense but on a mayorial level it's questionable.
The fact that they defund the police and up their own personal security shows me that they are not comfortable with their decision and are rammiing something down the people's throats.
It's a case of the people losing their security but some feedbag elected official gains theirs. They increase their security because they know the people are not exactly enamored to lose police and other protections.
One of the things that people do is band together for their own protection. If the .gov doesn't supply it they will supply their own. Militias are popping up in Minnesota and other places, calling themselves neighborhood watch groups to defend their neighborhoods.
The drawback is that often these little groups are led by egocentric jerks and also that there is no real oversight. The other drawback is that there is no way any offenders they might round up can be fed into the criminal justice system so the group becomes not only the police, but the judge and jury.
It pretty much becomes a breakdown of society in another sense and a popularity contest. It slowly turns society into a bunch of warlords leading localized groups.
What we ought to do is refund the police and limit the personal security of the mayors. When elected officials realize there's a chance they may wind up riding on a rail with a nice coat of tar and feathers they tend to govern a little better.
This holds doubly true for Congress.
I wonder how long Nancy Pelosi would last if they took her security detail away from her?
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