On or about 16 December A.D. 2003, a citizen of Worcester, Massachusetts went into a local home improvement store and shot two people. Reason? Alleged the shooter had a heated dispute with one of the store's plumbing subcontractors. The other victim? A bystander, a store employee.

The chief of Lowell, Massachusetts police complained that women who were coming to his office to obtain permits to carry pepper spray were "arming themselves to the teeth" while he stands there with a Sig Sauer semi-automatic 9 mm handgun strapped to his hip.

The entire logic of civilian disarmament, as reflected by the tyrannical police chief of Lowell, is that the citizenry not have the means to defend themselves against either criminals or agents of governmental tyranny. I am quite sure people such as the chief (police) dictator of Lowell find such events as the aforementioned incident to be deeply satisfying, as the desire is for the citizenry to be reduced to helplessness. Virtually all government u2018training' programs dealing with crime or terrorism given to non-law-enforcement personnel emphasize that the citizen should do nothing to defend himself but try to be observant to provide the law enforcement with useful details when – and if – they show up after the event. Government wants citizens to be passive, non-participatory serfs to be fleeced and ordered about for the benefit of the insider cliques whom the government serves. The attitudes of the upper leadership of law enforcement are simply a more brazen variant of this general government attitude.

The above accurately exposes the basis for the arrogant, elitist attitude of the police in general. If the rank-and-file police (if they had any sense) were to recognize where their interest rests, then they would support and cooperate with armed citizens and not harass them. But then power does indeed corrupt.

It is time for the citizens of every level of government, particularly local government, to take that back their communities, not only from the urban street thugs and the hordes of illegal aliens that are being invited in by the tacit approval of the politicians, but also from jack-booted legion of police who abuse, with impunity, constitutional rights. This latter class of criminals presumes a self-accorded authority to harass and intimidate at will and threaten ordinary citizens. It is this group which we must be most vigilant about because they pretend that their badges immunize them from responsible behavior. It is this group in particular that must be restored to the position of being servants and respectful protectors of constitutional rights. For many instances, currently they are little more than organized bands of thugs doing the bidding of a petty tyrannical politician to enslave and control the people period. Often they are aided and abetted by an equally corrupt judiciary advocating the social agendas of diversity, multiculturalism, and "civil rights," at the expense of constitutional liberty.

Realize that a call to 911 is an open agreement to become a willing victim of this tyranny. It is well past the time when the law-abiding tax-paying citizens of a community submit docilely to the tyranny of swaggering goons who wear badges, black face masks, and body armor. Federal police, including the FBI and the ATF, are a part of this.

It now remains the duty of the legislators to put the police back in the place where they belong in a free society.

January 17, 2004