Non-responsive Philly Cops

The headline reads, Philly Cops No Longer Responding To Fender Benders, and I’m wondering how this news is a bad thing?

The unsecure will undoubtedly be quaking in their boots, but that is simply a learned behavior, taught, naturally, by the State as it accumulated more and more power unto itself, at the expense of self reliance.

If in a fender bender, which, as the term implies, is a minor accident, why impede the resolution of a private matter between yourself, the other driver, and your insurance companies with the force of the State?  There would be only one reason, I think, for an individual in a minor fender bender to summon the interference of the State, and that would be the individual who thinks they are the aggreived party in said fender bender desires to have the State inflict additional damages and punishment upon the other involved party, as compensation for their anger, inconvenience and lack of self worth.

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  1. I understand the urge to wax all An-Cap here, but, you see, it’s the state getting out of your way at all.

    You still need the police-department-generated report for your insurance company; now you just have to go beg for it on your own time.

    If they’re going to steal money from me, I’d at least like a little service to go with it, rather than them wasting it kicking down the wrong doors looking for crack houses…

    (WV: “used” Yup, I sure feel that way.)

    Posted by Tam  on  05/01  at  04:07 PM

  2. You still need the police-department-generated report for your insurance company; now you just have to go beg for it on your own time.

    Tam, your point is well taken, and it excellently illustrates why further deconstruction of the system, beyond not responding to fender benders, must occur.

    Americans, as individuals, have become so dependent on the State’s required blessing to do this, that and the other thing, that even small steps to liberty, such as what is happening in Philly with minor fender benders, brings forth cries of “Lay off the whip, I beg you Master, but not in this instance.”

    The system must be deconstructed, but more importantly, the idea that you, or I, can handle this, or other matters, without the State’s required blessing, in whatever form that may be, must be embraced.  Ideas matter, and unless Americans embrace the idea that they can do it, well, then America will never get off the road to “The Endarkenment.”

    Posted by John Venlet  on  05/01  at  06:00 PM

  3. I had hoped that my use of the slang term “An-Cap” would signify where my philosophical roots lay… wink

    The problem here is that Philly has removed some guards from the camp offices in order to maintain proper staffing in the towers, at the gates, and at the entrance to the showers. The removal of the guards from the offices doesn’t signify a trend towards freedom, rather they just expect you to fill out your own extermination paperwork now for the sake of streamlining the process…

    Posted by Tam  on  05/01  at  08:31 PM

  4. Tam,

    I am not unaware of where your philosophical roots lay, you daily make that rather plain when I read your colorful views from the porch.

    You’re right, of course, when you state “removal of the guards from the offices doesn’t signify a trend towards freedom.”

    The point, the idea, I am attempting to breathe some life into, is that Americans must break their dependence on the State, and the non-response to fender benders in Philly could be a crack in this dependence which could be exploited.

    i.e. Hey, I handled this minor fender bender, working with my private insurance company, and the other fender bender involvee, and didn’t even need a cop’s blessing signified in the piece of official paper.  Small steps away from dependence will lead to larger strides being taken to independence.

    I can see all the roadblocks which are in America’s path to freedom, even in this simple fender bender scenario we are discussing, but if we don’t continue attempting to run the roadblocks, even if we must run them head on, we may as well just sorrowfully wring our hands, sprinkle ashes on our heads and wail woe is me.

    Posted by John Venlet  on  05/02  at  06:49 AM

  5. “Small steps away from dependence will lead to larger strides being taken to independence.”

    From your lips to God’s ears. smile

    Posted by Tam  on  05/05  at  09:50 AM

  6. From your lips to God’s ears.

    So be it!

    Posted by John Venlet  on  05/05  at  11:13 AM

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