Regulated into Anarchy

In the first article, Peter Hitchens at the Mail demonstrates how regulation in the name of politically correct victimhood results in anarchy. It works like this: In the UK it has become de rigeur to consider criminals as not responsible for their actions - they are victims of their upbringing, of society, of discrimination, of whatever. So, being victims, they are not responsible for the crimes they commit against regular citizens.

In fact, regular citizens who defend themselves against these criminals are seen as actually victimizing the criminals even further, which results in punishment of the non-criminal for the crime of self-defense. Since regular citizens know that the criminals will get no punishment, they endeavor to punish the perpetrators themselves. The punishment gets more violent as the liberal government and its police force attack - not the perps - but the property owners.

As a result, UK property owners are now much more likely to perform a "summary execution" in the knowledge that it is the only justice available.

The second article, by blogger John Hopkins, expresses the need for conservatives to play the same dirty, below the belt games that the Left plays. For example the MSM jihad against Sarah Palin's family could have been called racism (husband Trig, and the children are of a minority). And Leftist commentators should have their family history, tax history, sex lives etc all outed for public examination. The full rule book of Saul Alinski would be applied to the Left, just as the Left applies it to the Right.

The intent of the Alinski approach is to gain power through EVERY avenue available, no matter how unfair. Distortions are sustained through the MSM; Speakers are throttled by shout-downs; the masses are indoctrinated by full control of the conversation using techniques of bullying and fear of financially damaging lawsuits.

Using these techniques requires funding and support; the Left has the ACLU and Soros. The Right, not so much.

Further, the use of these techniques means the abandonment of the ethic of fairness. In fact it means the abandonment of all Judeo-Christian values, and this is the real reason that the Right - so far - has not lapsed into full anarchy and toe to toe war.

But as the first article shows, there are conditions of abandonment and despair that do create the conditions in normal humans that make the inconceivable conceivable, and even actionable. The results are not civil, because they are caused by non-civil conditions. But they obviously can and do happen. It amounts to war, and because the only ethic is to win, it would be obscenely vicious. Statists are nothing if (a) not determined, and (b) enabled by a fully relativist ethic.

Final comment: When a raging bull charges out of the pen and down the road toward town, there is only one rational solution; guess what it is.