Writes Spencer Hahn:

The city of Newark, NJ, is enforcing a 1960s law that bans the use of barbed wire and razor wire by the common people. The result: even more property crime in a city plagued by crime. Didn’t “we” all enter submit to government to protect our property (“we” did nothing of the sort, but it is the justification that statists frequently use)? Now, not only do they not protect property, they won’t even allow the common people to do so.

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Make that, To Entrap and Destroy. Here the cops set up one of their prostitution stings (helping to improve the tone of the neighborhood, as usual) and catch two 93-year-old men who were talked into something, or confused into something, by cops pretending to be prostitutes. The prevalence of stings and other forms of entrapment show that the police are, by and large, agents of injustice. Whatever happened to the friendly local cop on the beat who actually talked to regular people, and had their liking and respect? Gone the way of the rest of the old America, I guess. (via Drudge)

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“HIGHLAND PARK, Texas — Highland Park police handcuffed a 97-year-old woman and hauled her to jail last week for having an expired registration sticker.

“Police said they have a no-exceptions policy. Everyone gets treated the same — arrested, handcuffed, and taken to jail — even on minor traffic warrants.” (Link courtesy of Joseph Stromberg)

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