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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Eric Garner 100% Innocent Under Libertarian Law Eric Garner was doing nothing naturally illicit when he was tackled and placed in the chokehold that killed him. It can be argued, if anything, that Garner was being entrepreneurial. He had been trading untaxed cigarettes in defiance of the states slave patrol and Comrade Andrew Cuomos Cigarette Strike Force, in the words of libertys Don Quixote, William Norman Grigg. Had Garners naturally licit trade not been criminalized by todays Tammany Hall, hed be alive today. Garner, wrote Grigg, had suffered years of pointless and unnecessary harassment by the costumed predators employed by the New York Police Department, when he declared, minutes before he was killed: Every time you see me, you want to mess with me! Im tired of it! It stops today! Noted Grigg: Eric Garners exasperated proclamation It stops today! is cognate with Dont tread on me. The killing of Eric Garner was caught on camera and uploaded to YouTube. A grand jury, however, failed to see what was as plain as day to everyone else as well as to the city medical examiner. An autopsy revealed that the Garner death was a homicide, brought on, July 17, by compression of the neck and chest, along with Garners positioning on the ground while being restrained by police. The footage also shows that the cops who jumped Eric Garner with such enthusiasm were oblivious to his repeated pleas for air. Neither was an attempt at resuscitation commenced once they realized Garner was unresponsive. Instead, the cops panicked, barking orders at observers to disperse. Garners manner of death conjures the manner in which Carol Anne Gotbaum met her untimely demise, in 2008. Gotbaum, a petite, 45-year-old slip of a womanshe weighed 105 poundswas likely asphyxiated in Phoenixs Sky Harbor airport by some corpulent cops. She had become distraughtnot dangerousafter she was detained at the airport and not permitted to proceed to her destination. Unhinged, Gotbaum took off down the concourse hollering. She was quickly scrummed by meaty policemen, tackled to the ground, a colossal knee jabbed into her skinny spine. Gotbaum was then thrown in a holding cell, where she was shackled and chained to a bench. Minutes later Gotbaum was dead. Her bruised body was autopsied. As inevitably as water spiraling down a plughole, the police were exonerated. Famous forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden said:
the most likely cause of death has to do with asphyxia and could be a result of too much pressure on her chest when they were putting on the handcuffs and the shackles. Carol Anne Gotbaum was white. Cops are equal-opportunity offenders. Factoring into account the disproportionate representation of blacks among the population of law-breakers, cops aggress against whites and blacks more or less equally. (Except that whites dont riot and loot.) Not to be conflated are the cases of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, of Ferguson fame. While the evidence of police wrongdoing in Garners death is incontrovertible, the reverse is true in Brown versus Officer Darren Wilson. As the evidence shows, Michael Brown initiated aggression. He had aggressed against the store keeper and the policeman, who protected himself from this rushing mountain of flesh. In libertarian law, the individual may defends himself against initiated aggression. He may not initiate aggression against a non-aggressor. Eric Garner, on the other hand, had aggressed against nobody. Whereas Brown was stealing cigarillos; Garner was selling his own cigarettes. The law he violated was one that violated Garners individual, natural right to dispose of his own propertyloosiesat will. In libertarian law, Garner is thus 100 percent innocent. For the good libertarian abides by the axiom of non-aggression. When enforcers of the shakedown syndicate came around to bust him, Garner raised his voice, gestured and turned to walk away from his harassers. He did not aggress against or hurt anyone of the goons. To plagiarize myself in Tasers R Us, Liberty is a simple thing. Its the unassailable right to shout, flail your arms, even verbally provoke a politician [or policeman] unmolested. Tyranny is when those small things can get you assaulted, incarcerated, injured, even killed. Again: Garner had obeyed the libertarian, natural law absolutely. He was trading peacefully. In the same spirit, he turned to walk away from a confrontation. Befitting this pacific pattern, Garner had broken up a street fight prior to his murder. The government has a monopoly over making and enforcing law it decides what is legal and what isnt. Thus it behooves thinking people to question the monopolist and his laws. After all, cautioned the great Southern constitutional scholar James McClellan, What is legally just, may not be what is naturally just. Statutory man-made law is not necessarily just law. Unlike the positive law, which is state-created; natural law in not enacted. Rather, it is a higher lawa system of ethicsknowable through reason, revelation and experience. By natural law, propounded McClellan in Liberty, Order, And Justice, we mean those principles which are inherent in mans nature as a rational, moral, and social being, and which cannot be casually ignored. Eric Garner was on public property. Had he been trespassing on private property, the proprietor would have been in his right to remove him. However, Garner was not violating anyones rights or harming anyone by standing on a street corner and peddling his waresthat is unless the malevolent competition which sicced the cops on him has a property right in their prior profits. They dont. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest Begin Trace Mode for Comment # 9.
#8. To: Ada (#0)
I can agree with this while condemning the rage against the NYC police. I don't see a contradiction. The police are not to blame for laws that we might (on a case by case) think are unfair. NYC has become a safer place over the past 40 years. I'm think prohibition of activities such as peddling loosies has something to do with this. Is there another way? I'm sure. Have mayoral and conciliar directives to the NYC police helped to deliver this relative improvement? I'm also sure. The main issue for me: Garner is not a poster boy for police brutality against blacks. There must be better examples than someone who has been arrested so many times for such a wide variety of crimes. Security doesn't trump liberty, but Garner's untimely passing is no cause to riot.
Garner was not killed for being black but to enable the cops to make their quota of arrests. Garner and the cops knew each other quite well and arrested him often. He never resisted.
#10. To: Ada (#9)
I've seen the video. He was a giant man waving his massive hands around like small windmills. He even stated that he'd had enough harassment. That's not the sort of thing one should be saying during an arrest. His best bet would have been to follow orders, his right to remain silent strictly asserted, and work with his court-appointed attorney.
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