Theme: Constitutional Order

  • How About Checks and Balances at The Top??

    Mar 31, 2020, 10:40 PM First, there is very little federal government left. It consists almost exclusively of the military and treasury plus the insurer function of the treasury. The states are more like european states except that they share a military. (a) Monarchs are superior to presidents and prime ministers, prime ministers are superior to presidents, hired CEO’s are superior to prime ministers. Competing contractors are superior to bureaucracies. So Governors > Senate > Executives (Professional Cabinet) > Bureaucracies (Minimum) > Firms (maximum) (b) The checks and balances rely more on court (suits) against individuals and groups than on votes. After courts, then approval of federal appropriations. Appropriations are not pooled so they are more like payment plans. So there is no discretionary use of these fees. After that we have votes for our governors. Our governors (and governments) appoint senators. The only significant improvement would be an hereditary monarchy to overrule if something gets out of hand (think the present queen of England with more likely exercise of power.) The french really ruined government. The english had it right. Our experiment didn’t work as well as our enumerated rights in the constitution. So the P-constitutional amendments further enumerate rights and shift from the french vision of government back to the British. (classes).

  • Defining Propertarianism – for Newbies

    Apr 1, 2020, 3:40 PM “PROPERTARIANISM” IS JUST A BRAND NAME Propertarianism is just a brand name for strictly constructed traditional anglo American constitutional law, that is an evolution of our law, that prevents the crimes invented during the twentieth century, that were used to undermine western civilization. “Propertarian” was an ‘insult’ that was levied against libertarians who reduced all questions of social science to measurement by property. Fortunately, all questions of social science, ethics, and law, really are reducible to measurement by demonstrated interest that we call property. But, property, at least under our definition, is complete where under libertarianism it was insufficient. I chose the name “propertarianism” because it maintained this system of measurement, and “strictly constructed natural law of reciprocity” was too difficult a brand name. At this point, I would change it to Sovereignty, or “European Traditional Natural Law.” or something else. But the ‘term’ has stuck as a brand name so it’s hard to change it. Propertarianism consists of: 1 – The explanation for western success in ancient and modern worlds (adaptive velocity because of our individual sovereignty and resulting traditional law of property/tort.) We call this Western Group Evolutionary Strategy. 2 – The completion of the scientific method and all that it entails – which is a lot and why P is such a big program: it touches everything and it converts almost all psychological, social, and political speech to economic expressions – which is counter-intuitive because it’s scientific where our current psychological social, moral, and political speech is only normative or in the case of psychology sociology and politics, both pseudoscientific and sophomoric. We call this Vitruvianism(Metaphysics), Acquisitionism (Incentives, Behavior), Propertarianism (Ethics) and Testimonialism (Truth) 3 – The explanation of the different systems of argument used in the different civilizations, and in particular the Abrahamic means of deceit used in the ancient world (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and in the modern world (marxism, feminism, postmodernism, denialism/political correctness). We call this The Grammars. 4 – A constitution, body of law, and attendant policies that restore the American, English, anglo Saxon, germanic, western Indo-European, constitution (contract among sovereigns) and hardens it from future undermining, by creating a legal means for the prosecution of crimes of undermining, including religious (Jewish Islamic), pseudoscientific, and sophomoric (Marx, Freud, Boas, Adorno, Derrida, Friedan, and marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and denialism/political correctness), as well as the financing of undermining by prohibiting rent-seeking, privatization of commons, and socialization of losses). We call this A New or Updated Constitution. 5 – a set of policies under that constitution that form the most substantial political, social, economic, and financial reform since the roman era – restoring the civil society. We Call These The Reforms: The Policies Under the Constitution 6 – a set of restitutions and punishments that serve to return wealth to the American people, punish those who have engaged in undermining our people, and prevent repeats of undermining our people – or other peoples – in the future. We Call These the RestitutionsExplanation of How Propertarianism Does All That We create both the positive market for goods, services, and information in competition with and the negative market for suppression, restitution, punishment, and prevention, of falsehood and ir-reciprocity by the natural common law of tort that evolves scientifically through demonstrated resolution of disputes in real-world conflicts. So we create a market where people have the ultimate sovereignty (monopoly of control), liberty (choose your own destiny), and freedom (free of coercion) in a competition between market cooperation (the markets) and markets for conflict resolution (courts), as long as you do so by truthful and reciprocal means. We had these rights through most of our history but they have been stolen from us over the past century – on purpose, to destroy our civilization. But how can we (restore) our use of the law for the purpose of suppressing crimes against our people? This is how:

    1) Do you know what a formal logic is? It’s grammar of the logic of inference using sets and binary truth or falsehood.

    2) Do you know what programming is? It’s a grammar of operational logic using binary truth or falsehood.

    3) Do you know what law is? It’s a formal operational rational grammar of conflict resolution, using ternary falsehood, truth candidacy, and undecidability.

    4) Do you know what tort law is? It’s a formal rational operational grammar of conflict resolution over demonstrated interests that we enumerate as property, using ternary logic of falsehood, truth candidacy, undecidability.

    Propertarianism is aformal (strict), operational(sequential action), grammar (vocabulary, grammar, syntax, logic), of tort (demonstrated interests), and as a consequence a value neutral universal language (vocabulary, grammar, syntax, logic) across all disciplines (physical science, language-metaphysics, psychology, sociology, politics, ethics, law, group strategy), that allows us to falsify (test) every possible dimension of human action, intuition, cognition, and speech, for both testimonial possibility (truth) and reciprocity(ethics, morality, trespass, tort), and as a consequence allows us to create uninterpretable (strictly constructed) constitutions, and their enumerated rights and responsibilities, the most influential of which is the conversion of free speech to free truthful and reciprocal speech, in public, to the public, on matters public (commerce, economics, commons, politics, group strategy) by extending the involuntary warranty of due diligence and involuntary liability for the truthfulness and reciprocity of commercial speech to that of political speech.

    As such it allows us to outlaw hostile religions, and pseudo-religions especially the pseudoscientific and sophomoric restatements of supernatural Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in pseudoscientific and sophomoric and ir-reciprocal marxism, socialism, feminism, and postmodernism. Propertarianism is equivalent in scope to the revolutions of Aristotelian reason (realism, naturalism, reason), the empirical revolution(realism, naturalism, empiricism), in that it completes the scientific method by extending it from the physical to the psychological and social sciences, including that of law, politics, and group strategy. In other words, “propertarianism consists of the completion of the scientific method; its application to the totality of human knowledge; producing a universally commensurable language of all thought; its embodiment in the common law of tort; resulting in a logical and scientific constitution; permitting the criminalization of ir-reciprocal and un-testifiable speech and as a consequence the eradication of superstition, pseudoscience, sophism, fraud, and deceit from the commercial, financial, economic, political, and informational commons.” How Does P-Law Differ from Philosophy? You Could Call P-Law Operational Philosophy in The Sequence of Syllogistic Reason > Rationalism > Set Logic > Operational Logic (algorithmic) > Equilibrial Logic (economic Logic) 0) Uses Series (supply Demand) vs Ideals. 1) Uses Operational vs Set Logic 2) Users Ternary Logic Not Binary (undecidable, Truthful, False) 3) Uses Satisfaction of Demand for Infallibility Not Ideal Truth 4) Tests for Deceits Not Just Errors 5) Tests for Irreciprocity Not Just ‘good’ 6) Tests for Costs Not Just Internal Consistency 7) Tests for Closure by Reality Instead of Just Non-Contradiction 8) Tests for Limits and Full Accounting. 9) Tests for Warranty of Due Diligence, Liability, Restitutability. Edit Reasons for Disproportionate Western Success When We Explain the Reason for Western Success We Discover:

    “heroism and Excellence; Truth and Duty; Oath and Warranty; Sovereignty and Reciprocity; Law and Jury; and Voluntary Markets in Every Aspect of Life: Association, Cooperation, Production, Reproduction, Commons, Polities and War; the Direction of Surpluses to The Production of Commons and The Returns Therefrom; at The Cost of Suppression of The Reproduction of The Unproductive Underclasses; and The Direction of Dominance Expression to The Production of Commons by A Distributed Dictatorship of Individually Sovereign People and The Reciprocal Warranty of Denial of Power to Any and All.”

    Largely, It’s Just that We Tell the Truth (we Testify) – and No One Else Does (they Narrate). Propertarianism Is (a) the Completion of The Aristotelian Program (b) the Completion of The Scientific Method (c ) the Logic and Science of The Social Sciences, and (d) the Natural Law of Reciprocity Under Which All Display Word and Deed Is Expressible and Commensurable; (e) and The Means of Institutionalizing in A “market for The Suppression of Fraud” the Suppression of The Greatest Crime Against Humanity: The Big Lies that Are Responsible for The Last Dark Age and The New One that The Enemy Has Sought to Bring About. (apr 2, 2020, 8:05 Pm)

  • Defining Propertarianism – for Newbies

    Apr 1, 2020, 3:40 PM “PROPERTARIANISM” IS JUST A BRAND NAME Propertarianism is just a brand name for strictly constructed traditional anglo American constitutional law, that is an evolution of our law, that prevents the crimes invented during the twentieth century, that were used to undermine western civilization. “Propertarian” was an ‘insult’ that was levied against libertarians who reduced all questions of social science to measurement by property. Fortunately, all questions of social science, ethics, and law, really are reducible to measurement by demonstrated interest that we call property. But, property, at least under our definition, is complete where under libertarianism it was insufficient. I chose the name “propertarianism” because it maintained this system of measurement, and “strictly constructed natural law of reciprocity” was too difficult a brand name. At this point, I would change it to Sovereignty, or “European Traditional Natural Law.” or something else. But the ‘term’ has stuck as a brand name so it’s hard to change it. Propertarianism consists of: 1 – The explanation for western success in ancient and modern worlds (adaptive velocity because of our individual sovereignty and resulting traditional law of property/tort.) We call this Western Group Evolutionary Strategy. 2 – The completion of the scientific method and all that it entails – which is a lot and why P is such a big program: it touches everything and it converts almost all psychological, social, and political speech to economic expressions – which is counter-intuitive because it’s scientific where our current psychological social, moral, and political speech is only normative or in the case of psychology sociology and politics, both pseudoscientific and sophomoric. We call this Vitruvianism(Metaphysics), Acquisitionism (Incentives, Behavior), Propertarianism (Ethics) and Testimonialism (Truth) 3 – The explanation of the different systems of argument used in the different civilizations, and in particular the Abrahamic means of deceit used in the ancient world (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and in the modern world (marxism, feminism, postmodernism, denialism/political correctness). We call this The Grammars. 4 – A constitution, body of law, and attendant policies that restore the American, English, anglo Saxon, germanic, western Indo-European, constitution (contract among sovereigns) and hardens it from future undermining, by creating a legal means for the prosecution of crimes of undermining, including religious (Jewish Islamic), pseudoscientific, and sophomoric (Marx, Freud, Boas, Adorno, Derrida, Friedan, and marxism, postmodernism, feminism, and denialism/political correctness), as well as the financing of undermining by prohibiting rent-seeking, privatization of commons, and socialization of losses). We call this A New or Updated Constitution. 5 – a set of policies under that constitution that form the most substantial political, social, economic, and financial reform since the roman era – restoring the civil society. We Call These The Reforms: The Policies Under the Constitution 6 – a set of restitutions and punishments that serve to return wealth to the American people, punish those who have engaged in undermining our people, and prevent repeats of undermining our people – or other peoples – in the future. We Call These the RestitutionsExplanation of How Propertarianism Does All That We create both the positive market for goods, services, and information in competition with and the negative market for suppression, restitution, punishment, and prevention, of falsehood and ir-reciprocity by the natural common law of tort that evolves scientifically through demonstrated resolution of disputes in real-world conflicts. So we create a market where people have the ultimate sovereignty (monopoly of control), liberty (choose your own destiny), and freedom (free of coercion) in a competition between market cooperation (the markets) and markets for conflict resolution (courts), as long as you do so by truthful and reciprocal means. We had these rights through most of our history but they have been stolen from us over the past century – on purpose, to destroy our civilization. But how can we (restore) our use of the law for the purpose of suppressing crimes against our people? This is how:

    1) Do you know what a formal logic is? It’s grammar of the logic of inference using sets and binary truth or falsehood.

    2) Do you know what programming is? It’s a grammar of operational logic using binary truth or falsehood.

    3) Do you know what law is? It’s a formal operational rational grammar of conflict resolution, using ternary falsehood, truth candidacy, and undecidability.

    4) Do you know what tort law is? It’s a formal rational operational grammar of conflict resolution over demonstrated interests that we enumerate as property, using ternary logic of falsehood, truth candidacy, undecidability.

    Propertarianism is aformal (strict), operational(sequential action), grammar (vocabulary, grammar, syntax, logic), of tort (demonstrated interests), and as a consequence a value neutral universal language (vocabulary, grammar, syntax, logic) across all disciplines (physical science, language-metaphysics, psychology, sociology, politics, ethics, law, group strategy), that allows us to falsify (test) every possible dimension of human action, intuition, cognition, and speech, for both testimonial possibility (truth) and reciprocity(ethics, morality, trespass, tort), and as a consequence allows us to create uninterpretable (strictly constructed) constitutions, and their enumerated rights and responsibilities, the most influential of which is the conversion of free speech to free truthful and reciprocal speech, in public, to the public, on matters public (commerce, economics, commons, politics, group strategy) by extending the involuntary warranty of due diligence and involuntary liability for the truthfulness and reciprocity of commercial speech to that of political speech.

    As such it allows us to outlaw hostile religions, and pseudo-religions especially the pseudoscientific and sophomoric restatements of supernatural Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, in pseudoscientific and sophomoric and ir-reciprocal marxism, socialism, feminism, and postmodernism. Propertarianism is equivalent in scope to the revolutions of Aristotelian reason (realism, naturalism, reason), the empirical revolution(realism, naturalism, empiricism), in that it completes the scientific method by extending it from the physical to the psychological and social sciences, including that of law, politics, and group strategy. In other words, “propertarianism consists of the completion of the scientific method; its application to the totality of human knowledge; producing a universally commensurable language of all thought; its embodiment in the common law of tort; resulting in a logical and scientific constitution; permitting the criminalization of ir-reciprocal and un-testifiable speech and as a consequence the eradication of superstition, pseudoscience, sophism, fraud, and deceit from the commercial, financial, economic, political, and informational commons.” How Does P-Law Differ from Philosophy? You Could Call P-Law Operational Philosophy in The Sequence of Syllogistic Reason > Rationalism > Set Logic > Operational Logic (algorithmic) > Equilibrial Logic (economic Logic) 0) Uses Series (supply Demand) vs Ideals. 1) Uses Operational vs Set Logic 2) Users Ternary Logic Not Binary (undecidable, Truthful, False) 3) Uses Satisfaction of Demand for Infallibility Not Ideal Truth 4) Tests for Deceits Not Just Errors 5) Tests for Irreciprocity Not Just ‘good’ 6) Tests for Costs Not Just Internal Consistency 7) Tests for Closure by Reality Instead of Just Non-Contradiction 8) Tests for Limits and Full Accounting. 9) Tests for Warranty of Due Diligence, Liability, Restitutability. Edit Reasons for Disproportionate Western Success When We Explain the Reason for Western Success We Discover:

    “heroism and Excellence; Truth and Duty; Oath and Warranty; Sovereignty and Reciprocity; Law and Jury; and Voluntary Markets in Every Aspect of Life: Association, Cooperation, Production, Reproduction, Commons, Polities and War; the Direction of Surpluses to The Production of Commons and The Returns Therefrom; at The Cost of Suppression of The Reproduction of The Unproductive Underclasses; and The Direction of Dominance Expression to The Production of Commons by A Distributed Dictatorship of Individually Sovereign People and The Reciprocal Warranty of Denial of Power to Any and All.”

    Largely, It’s Just that We Tell the Truth (we Testify) – and No One Else Does (they Narrate). Propertarianism Is (a) the Completion of The Aristotelian Program (b) the Completion of The Scientific Method (c ) the Logic and Science of The Social Sciences, and (d) the Natural Law of Reciprocity Under Which All Display Word and Deed Is Expressible and Commensurable; (e) and The Means of Institutionalizing in A “market for The Suppression of Fraud” the Suppression of The Greatest Crime Against Humanity: The Big Lies that Are Responsible for The Last Dark Age and The New One that The Enemy Has Sought to Bring About. (apr 2, 2020, 8:05 Pm)

  • But I’m Not Creating a Popular Political Movement I’m Creating a Revolution and A Body of Law

    Apr 15, 2020, 10:11 AM (and frankly y’all got nobody else at all other than me with anything to offer.)

    —“Curt: Don’t you realize that what you are trying to do is start a political movement? P must be a political movement if it’s ever going to get off the ground. You can talk all you want about it being the final conclusion to logic and science. You know what? That and $4 will get you a cup from Starbucks. I would personally like to see some P principles in our constitution. But it ain’t gonna happen if you don’t build constituencies. And the number one group that could be in your corner is conservative Christians. But that isn’t going to happen because you are too dogmatic about the folly of Christianity. I am offering you some advice. Delete all negative references to Christianity in your writings. Stop telling Christians they are foolish, failures, weak, arrogant, disobedient and wasting their time believing in the fake man in the sky. You are trying to build a political movement (herd) whether you choose to admit it or not. Who is going to be followers of the P movement? Marxists? Socialists? Antifa? The leftist academic elitists? The deep state? The parasitic democrats dependent on government transfer payments, single mothers, millions of recent immigrants, the AOC & Bernie millennials? No. It’s Euro Americans of which a huge number are Christian. And you’re going to piss them off. You are NOT going to gain any traction by alienating what should be your core constituency. You can be self-righteous in your P dogma and lose. Or you can try to win by forging alliances with those who can help you move forward. Choose wisely.”— Herod Bedford

    Go to my twitter page. What does the pinned tweet say? Here. I’m going to post it below for you. My response is that instead you stop making excuses for the truth in order to burying your head in the sand using faith as an excuse. You can never have a theocracy. You can only have trifunctionalism, or you can disappear from this earth. Truth and Law vs Wisdom and Faith. I’m not looking for a majority, any more than were the founders. I’m looking for 1% or less of the population that will fight to restore the constitution and our civilization without pandering to anyone, whether christian, or fascist, or marxist-socialist-postmodernist-feminist, or anything in between – we are made from rule of law and christianity, fascism, liberalism, and leftism are all privileged cults of fantasy that are possible because the few – the very few – were willing to pick up, carry arms, sally forth, and fight to preserve them despite cowards like you. Either your civilization and its operating system of law comes first, or you are an enemy of our people. If your faith is before your people, or you are the enemy of our people. if it comes before our law, our people, and our civilization then you are the enemy of your people. Your privilege of faith is due to our civilization, and our law, and the truth within our law that you deny in order to maintain your faith. Christian self congratulatory delusions are only possible, as is judaism, because real men fight for the law to have the freedom to provide you with that self indulgence. The few strong, reciprocal, and brave, do not need the approval of the many weak, irreciprocal, and cowardly. So grow up, man up, shut up, and fight for our law. Because the survival of your faith is predicated on it.

  • But I’m Not Creating a Popular Political Movement I’m Creating a Revolution and A Body of Law

    Apr 15, 2020, 10:11 AM (and frankly y’all got nobody else at all other than me with anything to offer.)

    —“Curt: Don’t you realize that what you are trying to do is start a political movement? P must be a political movement if it’s ever going to get off the ground. You can talk all you want about it being the final conclusion to logic and science. You know what? That and $4 will get you a cup from Starbucks. I would personally like to see some P principles in our constitution. But it ain’t gonna happen if you don’t build constituencies. And the number one group that could be in your corner is conservative Christians. But that isn’t going to happen because you are too dogmatic about the folly of Christianity. I am offering you some advice. Delete all negative references to Christianity in your writings. Stop telling Christians they are foolish, failures, weak, arrogant, disobedient and wasting their time believing in the fake man in the sky. You are trying to build a political movement (herd) whether you choose to admit it or not. Who is going to be followers of the P movement? Marxists? Socialists? Antifa? The leftist academic elitists? The deep state? The parasitic democrats dependent on government transfer payments, single mothers, millions of recent immigrants, the AOC & Bernie millennials? No. It’s Euro Americans of which a huge number are Christian. And you’re going to piss them off. You are NOT going to gain any traction by alienating what should be your core constituency. You can be self-righteous in your P dogma and lose. Or you can try to win by forging alliances with those who can help you move forward. Choose wisely.”— Herod Bedford

    Go to my twitter page. What does the pinned tweet say? Here. I’m going to post it below for you. My response is that instead you stop making excuses for the truth in order to burying your head in the sand using faith as an excuse. You can never have a theocracy. You can only have trifunctionalism, or you can disappear from this earth. Truth and Law vs Wisdom and Faith. I’m not looking for a majority, any more than were the founders. I’m looking for 1% or less of the population that will fight to restore the constitution and our civilization without pandering to anyone, whether christian, or fascist, or marxist-socialist-postmodernist-feminist, or anything in between – we are made from rule of law and christianity, fascism, liberalism, and leftism are all privileged cults of fantasy that are possible because the few – the very few – were willing to pick up, carry arms, sally forth, and fight to preserve them despite cowards like you. Either your civilization and its operating system of law comes first, or you are an enemy of our people. If your faith is before your people, or you are the enemy of our people. if it comes before our law, our people, and our civilization then you are the enemy of your people. Your privilege of faith is due to our civilization, and our law, and the truth within our law that you deny in order to maintain your faith. Christian self congratulatory delusions are only possible, as is judaism, because real men fight for the law to have the freedom to provide you with that self indulgence. The few strong, reciprocal, and brave, do not need the approval of the many weak, irreciprocal, and cowardly. So grow up, man up, shut up, and fight for our law. Because the survival of your faith is predicated on it.

  • Warm Body Democracy and “Sitting Ducks”

    Apr 16, 2020, 9:29 AM

    —“The distortions to adjust for population counts are just that – distortions, made to make those areas look bigger than they actually are. (They also require you to accept the legitimacy of warm-body democracy.) They are not big, they are not powerful. They are sitting ducks.”—Michael Andrade

  • Warm Body Democracy and “Sitting Ducks”

    Apr 16, 2020, 9:29 AM

    —“The distortions to adjust for population counts are just that – distortions, made to make those areas look bigger than they actually are. (They also require you to accept the legitimacy of warm-body democracy.) They are not big, they are not powerful. They are sitting ducks.”—Michael Andrade

  • P Constitution Has Room for Everyone … Just…

    Apr 22, 2020, 10:36 AM

    —“From what I’ve read in the P Constitution, it has room for almost everybody. It just restricts those everybody’s from harming anyone else. In the P Constitution made a great effort to strengthen many of the amendments in the US Constitution.:–Robert Danis

  • P Constitution Has Room for Everyone … Just…

    Apr 22, 2020, 10:36 AM

    —“From what I’ve read in the P Constitution, it has room for almost everybody. It just restricts those everybody’s from harming anyone else. In the P Constitution made a great effort to strengthen many of the amendments in the US Constitution.:–Robert Danis

  • Law Enforcement Be Under P-Law

    Apr 22, 2020, 11:55 AM

    —“How different would the function of law enforcement be under P-law than how it operates in today’s society?”—

    Primary differences are: 1) adopt sheriff public service model rather than police (corporate revenue generation) model, 2) to increase the number of officers in each incident so that force isn’t required 3) coupled with the ability to call large numbers of ‘trained’ citizens (militia) to assist (similar to volunteer fire departments); This increases the chances that someone who knows the individual can talk him or her down. 4) the population would be trained by continuous pubic service announcements on how to react to police officers. 5) Restore more discretion by senior officers, and lower the number of people who are put into the system. In other words ‘make time for human beings’. The acceleration of human behavior into rat-utopia panic is due to alienation, and the consequences. Social pressure and getting attention on one’s ‘ir-reciprocities’ and ‘feeling the social pressure (guilt)’ does not accelerate conflict behavior as does a relationship between an ‘oppressor / opponent / authority” with an officer. Shame is more effective than we think. Which is something we used to know. 6) We would restore all rights of self defense and all OBLIGATIONS to defend the commons: physical, normative, informational, and institutional. Meaning that a lot more criminals would be shot for ‘starter crimes’ – my favorite being porch-thieves, and within a decade behavior would return to ‘normal’. What does this amount to? Restoring the number of people protecting private and common. ORIGINS Where does this come from? Study of dutch british and german police forces, and study of how french citizens are taught to react to police. Source of the problem is distributed us population vs concentrated european population, and associated coverage costs. In effect we are forcing officers into a position where they cannot use numbers to encircle (see italian method) remain calm, and de-escalate, and so must use force to obtain control and bring into the system. The ability to storm someone’s home rather than wait to take them in public is another that needs to be changed. In effect we are trying to be too efficient with expensive officers, and we are paying the cost in increased distrust of the police courts, and political institutions becasue of it. We don’t need wild west sheriffs. We need to encircle, show consideration, de escalate, and if escalation is necessary it’s because there is no other choice, not because of the power ratio between officers and subjects. I can write more but in general, Americans suppress more petty crimes than europeans which is important and why we have nicer suburbs – and we want to keep it that way, and we are better at investigation – esp FBI – than european countries, but they are better at civil policing than americans. We are a more militarized society However, what I’m recommending is that we are a more “MILITIA-ISED” at the local level so that we restore investment in the material, social, political, and informational commons.