https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/drown-rather-save-without-rulers-help/

The State has just about succeeded in preventing us from defending ourselves against free-lance criminals—and totally succeeded when it comes self-defense against its official criminals. Now it’s working on prohibiting us from rescuing ourselves when we’re in danger.

Todd sent me this story of a guy who apparently crashed his boat while drunk; “someone” called 911 to report an emergency, and the police-state swung into overdrive with its usual hysteria: “[a]mong the agencies that responded to the call of a man missing in the river at 2:50 a.m. Sunday: Washington County, Minnesota State Patrol, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and Lakeview Emergency Medical Services[, and d]ivers from fire departments in Bayport, Stillwater, Mahtomedi, Scandia, Lower St. Croix Valley and Woodbury…

“After a full day of searching, authorities heard from the man’s attorney on Monday morning.” The victim, who apparently never asked for the State’s “help,” “was ‘alive and well,’ the attorney said.”

That enrages Our Rulers. But they can’t press charges because the boater “left the scene of the crash before he could be tested for possible boating-while-intoxicated charges…” Good for him! According to what I read in American history, drunkenness that injures only oneself used to be the subject of ridicule rather than of arrest and prosecution. Not to mention the sport Americans would formerly have made of ten agencies scrambling to get in on the midnight fun.

Since prosecution isn’t possible in this case, Our Rulers have fallen back on shame. They threaten Mr. Drunk “with the ‘court of public opinion … This guy is going to have to deal with insurance, he’s going to have a very expensive tow out of the water, and then there’s the public perception,’ [a cop] said. ‘People know his name, they know his history, and his mugshot is out there.’” I hope but doubt that they also know he preferred to save himself rather than call 911. And that they’re outraged at government’s squandering of their taxes on overkill.

Hell hath no fury like the State scorned.

10:19 am on April 27, 2017

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