When the Army Acts like the
Police



By Amber Pawlik


Both Ralph Nader and Michael Moore were on The O’reilly Factor this week saying to deal with terrorism, they would target
Osama bin Laden. Rejecting the invasion of Afghanistan, Moore said he “would have gone after the man that killed 3,000 peo-
ple.” Ralph Nader said on O’reilly, July 26, 2004:

“OK, 9/11 happens. What do you got to do? You got to go after the backers of the attackers, because the attackers are no more.
They committed suicide. So you go after them under the doctrine of hot pursuit. It's very important to do this under international
law, which allows us, with other nations, to send commandos, spies and bribes to zero in on wherever we think the backers
are.”What the left wants our military to do, and O’Reilly called Ralph Nader on it, is to act like a police force. A friend of mine
made an excellent point once. He told me about Randy Weaver, the man whose wife son and dog were killed by federal agents,
after they invaded his property over a minor firearms charge (in which they entrapped Weaver). That was on August 21, 1992.

Not much longer after this was Waco, in which the government invaded a private complex in military like fashion. Even after
this was the case of Elian Gonzalez, in which a 6 yr old boy was taken from his home at gunpoint. My friend made the
point: the police are starting to act like an army. The left wants the police to act like an army and the army to act like the po-
lice. This should frighten Americans. A government whose police acts like an army and army acts like the police is one that
will invade its own people but leave them defenseless against foreign enemies.

How justice is served is answered by philosophy (and reality always delivers mounds of proof to verify correct conclusions).
How governments organize themselves is based on the entity’s involved (men or nations) nature and self-interest. Among indi-
vidual men, a government should govern them, and disputes should be handled by going through a legal process, i.e. the two
men cannot take justice in their own hands. If men lived in anarchy, forced to essentially be their own protective government,
they would turn into thugs at the mercy of any roaming gang. We would revert to primitivism and nothing would ever be built,
invented or produced, as long term planning would be impossible.

Among nations, no such ruling entity should exist. Whereas man would die and stagnate if protecting his own life was in his
hands, a nation would perish if protecting its own borders wasn’t in its own hands. A nation, an entire collection of men living
under the same government, is capable of raising a force to protect itself. To live under a higher government would do nothing
but leave it vulnerable.
The left wants to pervert this. Ask yourself why. Who benefits if a government, such as the United States, is cut off at the
knees, unable to take out other malignant regimes, but has the ability to invade its own citizens with 400 agents over a mi-
nor charge?

It is obvious who benefits and who loses if this rational form of justice is perverted. If justice is perverted like this, tyrants will
flourish and regular citizens will be cowered into submission. Why does the left scream about U.S “imperialism” in Iraq but
never mention the torture and abuse Saddam put his own people through?

Why are they more adamant about the “rights” of Iraqi war prisoners than they are of American citizens? To leftists, Osama bin
Laden, who many leftists have said should be “innocent until proven guilty” has more rights than Randy Weaver. If you want to
preserve your rights – your right to your own life, liberty and happiness – you must fight your individual rights at home and for
a self-governing nation with a strong military to protect you from enemies (who wish to see you dead) abroad.

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