{"id":85039,"date":"2023-04-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85039"},"modified":"2023-05-01T10:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T15:59:22","slug":"85039","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=85039","title":{"rendered":"Making That Problem Go Away"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. When government doesn’t – can’t or won’t – provide the law and order that is its one unambiguously legitimate job, people will provide it for themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And outside of libertarian fantasies, that can be an extraordinarily ugly thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

On Monday, Haitian<\/a> police confirmed that a civilian-organized lynch mob captured a group of gang members before beating them and burning them alive amongst gasoline-soaked tires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haitian police spokesperson Gary Desrosiers explained that the gang members had been roving the streets of the capital in a vehicle, which was in the process of being searched when the mob took over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Daily Mail<\/a> reports, thirteen gang members in total were somehow separated from police just before being arrested, and dragged into the street. They were beaten and stoned, then covered with gasoline-soaked tires and set ablaze.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This sort of thing isn’t unknown in America; organized crime and street gangs often bring, if not “law”, at least order to an area. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m just not sure if the mewling white progressives in Powderhorn Park prattling on about defunding the police are ready for this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve said it before. I’ll say it again. When government doesn’t – can’t or won’t – provide the law and order that is its one unambiguously legitimate job, people will provide it for themselves. And outside of libertarian fantasies, that can be an extraordinarily ugly thing: On Monday, Haitian police confirmed that a civilian-organized lynch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85045,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85039\/revisions\/85045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}