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CRIME PAYS
By Kurt Saxon
the announcer would say, “Crime does not pay”. But crime did pay then
and it certainly pays now. And I don’t mean that crime only pays the criminal.
It is true that one who commits a crime has little chance of
being caught. It is also true that if he is caught, there is little chance he
will be convicted. If convicted, there is little chance of his doing time. If he
does time, there is little chance of his serving his full term.
These are well-known facts which encourage criminality. But
what most people fail to realize is that the entire criminal justice system
itself is one of the greatest industries in our country. Many billions of
dollars annually are taken in by our criminal justice system and without an
ever-rising crime rate, our economy would suffer.
In New York City, alone, there are 30,000 police officers who
earn at least $400.00 weekly. These are needed to contend with the hoards of
habitual criminals whose only function is to rob, rape, maim and kill.
Nearly all of these criminals have records showing their
hatred for their betters. An efficient system would round them up and destroy
them all. That would cut down on the need for police officers to maybe 5,000 to
patrol, manage traffic, answer emergency calls and protect and serve as police
officers are supposed to do.
But without the habitual criminal to take up most of the
police officer’s time, 25,000 New York cops would be unemployed. Employment has
become more important than public safety. And this is not simply in New York,
but nationwide.
The criminal justice system, from the cop in his patrol car
to the U.S. Department of Justice, millions of noncriminals, make a good living
off criminality. When a prison is to be built at a cost of 200 to 500 million
dollars, the politicians awarding the contracts often get large rake-offs. The
building contractors certainly make a large profit. Those supplying food,
clothing, etc., to the prisoners, pay their bills because of those who prey on
society. The guards and the wardens live well because society pays well to keep
society’s predators alive.
The cops, prosecutor, the defense attorneys, the judges, the
bailiffs, the court reporters, the bail bondsmen and the janitors all profit
from crime. If criminals were ever forced to serve their entire sentence, thus
keeping them out of circulation for years instead of months, employees of the
criminal justice system would suffer dramatically. Habitual criminals commit
crimes while out on bail and especially while out on parole. Those who allow
them their freedom before and after whatever sentence they serve, have a vested
interest in their freedom to commit crimes.
When Florida cops were searching for the murderers of a
British tourist they came up with a thirteen year old suspect who had been
arrested 93 times! Reason dictates that the young monster should have been put
to sleep after his third offense proved an established habit pattern of
criminality.
But consider his profit to the criminal justice system.
Ninety-three arrests and who knows how many convictions? If things were to stay
the same, he would represent millions of dollars in his lifetime. He is a gold
mine, except to those he robs, rapes, maims and kills. The tragedies he and
those like him leave in their wakes is a small price to pay for job security,
legal fees and high level careers in the criminal justice system.
Not too long ago an on-the-street interviewer had his crew
focus the camera on a drug deal going on a block away from a group of cops
standing on the sidewalk socializing. He called their attention to the crime in
progress and one middle-aged officer said frankly that the judge would only let
them go and so made no move to do anything.
That cop knows which side his bread is buttered on. Like many
cops, he knows the drug dealer is, in a sense, his employer. He knows the
“war on drugs” is a joke. Drugs pump about as much money into the
criminal justice system as they do into the pockets of the drug dealers.
The phony war on drugs has caused a social nightmare scarcely
hinted at by the prohibition of alcohol seventy years ago. Like during
Prohibition, yet another and stronger set of criminals has arisen.
The profitable seduction of addictive personalities has given
us a class of addicts far worse than alcoholics. The misery caused by the drug
trade has cost billions to industry and has endangered the lives of more
non-involved people than any criminal enterprise in history.
China has no drug problem. Both the pusher and the addict are
shot!
A hundred years ago, anyone could go into a pharmacy and buy
raw opium or any narcotic then known. Drugs were not a social problem. Of
course, the immediate family of the addict was blighted. But no more than the
immediate family of the alcoholic then and now.
Drugs were cheap and legal and there was no profit in causing
anyone to take them. People felt that if a weak person chose to damage his
already inferior brain, it was his choice and his death was no loss. They were
right. So they let it alone and there was no base to build criminality on.
Only in our time, with a government so weakened by corruption
that such a base for criminality was welcome, could an alliance between drug
traffickers and government take place. Prohibition taught rational and decent
folk that the attempted cure was far worse than the disease. But the powers that
be remembered that Prohibition not only created a new criminal element, it also
created a much stronger police presence. More police are desired by all who wish
for more power over their citizens and/or fear revolution.
Throughout the ages, tyrannies have used any pretext to
enlarge their police forces. The public reason is to fight crime but the private
reason is to insure their safety from a population awakened to their corruption,
incompetence, etc.
Communist Russia, as oppressive as it was and as efficient as
its police forces seemed, had a large class of professional criminals. The
criminal, if so sloppy as to force his capture, was far better treated than was
the political prisoner and was released sooner. Even Nazi Germany had its
criminals, who fared better in the concentration camps, and were usually
released alive, unlike those opposed to the regime. So the very police who were
supposed to protect and serve were actually used to keep the law-abiding
citizens in line.
So the war on drugs has two purposes. The first and the most
obvious is the employment of so many in our criminal justice system. The second
is the strengthening of the criminal justice system to counteract growing
unrest.
But they all say their actions are for the good of the public
at large. Many in the criminal justice system even put on a show of righteous
indignation at the criminal element. Even jailers complain about crowding and
beg forgiveness for releasing murderous felons on the public.
Of course, they all excuse their actions by saying they are
compelled, even against their will, to observe the rights of criminals.
Although, historically, one who violated the rights of another, forfeited his
own, our system has a vested interest in granting rights to predators.
But have you ever considered what a right is? The term
“rights” has been sanctified, both religiously and civically.
“God given rights”. “Inalienable rights”. “Natural
rights”. All nonsense! These terms sound nice but only serve to give a
false sense of security to those who believe that rights are somehow guaranteed.
Consider. If God gave you a right to life, could any punk
take it away? Forget any punishment to the punk; your right from God would have
been taken away by a lesser being. Impossible.
Inalienable right? If a right can be alienated and all of
them are, frequently, it isn’t inalienable.
Natural right? What’s that?
A right is a social privilege, usually recognized by the
state. It can be violated or withheld at the whim of an individual, society or
the state. Rights have to be stood up for, fought for and there must be a
willingness to destroy anyone who consistently violates the rights of others, if
rights are to have any meaning.
Of course, there are also conflicting rights. These are
rights given to losers to compensate for and excuse inferiority. Our Founding
Fathers gave us rights to enable the individual to exercise his abilities and
keep what he earned through the use of those abilities. These rights are being
eroded by conflicting rights given to those without ability and so unable to
earn anything.
The rights given to the inferior and amended to the
Constitution are most often referred to to prevent the criminal from getting his
just deserts. Our Founding Fathers never dreamed of giving rights to those who
rob, rape, maim and kill.
Those who finally accepted the original Constitution would
have hanged over 90% of our repeat offenders. The term “Constitutional
rights” has been so perverted that the entire Constitution is in danger of
being overridden by our own government.
Clinton is even now proposing the addition of 100,000 police
nationwide. Why? To further institutionalize the whole of our populace? To
suppress civil unrest as his faltering system creates more desperation?
His reasons are meaningless since his overall incompetence
insures the collapse of our system. But as in so many societies controlled by
incompetents, for incompetents, those making money off the criminal justice
system are increasingly willing to arm the system against their fellow citizens.
Part of the solution to the crime problem would be to simply
rescind the rights of felons and kill all repeat offenders. Our species is the
only one which deliberately nurtures its own parasites and predators. But
thankfully, not all of our species do so willingly. Only those blinded by
profits and power give reasons for keeping alive those who would destroy us.
Fully 80% of all serious crime is caused by only 20% of the
criminal element. These are repeat offenders, career and habitual criminals. All
have established habit patterns of predation. They are degenerates by any
rational standards.
They are not only our greatest economic liability but a
threat to our system, our civilization and to our species itself.
There is no rational reason to keep them alive at such a
sacrifice, or any sacrifice, for that matter. Unfortunately, they will not be
done away with by our present administration. The collapse will come and most of
them will perish in the resulting chaos, along with most of those presently in
power.
But when the worst has passed and normal humans take over,
such vermin will be destroyed as a matter of course. When ridding society of
their kind becomes policy, we will need few police. Then we will live in an age
when crime doesn’t pay anyone at all.
