Government is a misery profiteer.

If you ever have any kind of problem you have to be crazy to call the cops.  All they will do is shoot your dog upon arrival at the scene (major epidemic of this is happening in the US right now).  Then they will seek to arrest someone so that the court system can charge them with ridiculous crimes and extract stupidity payments from them (payments demanded from those stupid enough to call the cops).  In too many cases, the person who called 911 (or the person they called 911 to send help for) gets killed.

If only that were the end of it.  Not hardly.  Today we learn that two teenagers are now charged with reckless endangerment for failing to stop their friend from driving drunk.  The friend then crashed into a tree and died and the cops and the complicit state are trying to figure out how best to profit from this misery.  There is nothing and I mean nothing more profitable for the state than the punishment of "crime".  It's a racket.

I wonder how much it will cost the parents of these teens to defend them from these ridiculous "you are your brother's keeper" charges.  My guess is at least $50-100k each IF they can beat the charges and a good deal more if they cannot.  The details of the charges are:  "Modlesky (the girl who died) was inside the Honda Pilot with four male teens prior to the accident... One by one, the male teens reportedly drove themselves home and then left Modlesky to get home by herself in the car. Police say they were "well aware...she was highly intoxicated."

Was this nice or wise of the kids to just look out for themselves and then leave the drunk girl to fend for herself?  Of course not.  Being unwise is part of being a teenager.  It was ignorant and selfish as well (also part of being a teenager).  But where does the state get off charging them with reckless endangerment?  The drunk girl is dead.  She cannot be brought back.  The kids involved obviously feel horrible. They might even feel like they made a very bad judgement call or survivor's guilt, etc.  Of course, they were probably drinking too so perhaps their judgement was impaired as well.  Alcohol has a way of doing that.  But the girl who died killed herself and she did it by herself.  Sorry, that is the cold hard truth of the matter.  It is not my fault, your fault, or the fault of bystanders.  She should not have been drinking and driving.  She should have demanded that someone take her home.  She should have demanded that someone call her a cab.  She blew it and it and she paid for the mistake in full with her life.

But she's dead now and there's no extracting misery profits from a dead girl so now the witch hunt for some way to profit from this tragedy has to include those who just happened to be in the vicinity prior to the accident. This is patently ridiculous.  I am not my brother's keeper and he should not expect that I am.  If I want to be charitable in some way then that is my free choice, not my state-directed obligation.

By the state's logic, anyone who doesn't stand outside a bar every night at 2am and forcibly remove the keys from every person exiting is guilty of reckless endangerment.  I'm so damned tired of hearing "It Takes a Village" because the next thing you hear is "You Didn't Earn That" and then of course "Why Didn't You Save Everyone" followed by the judge relieving you of your freedom and your money with the statement "You Have The Ability To Pay".

The cops said the teenagers were guilty of the charges because they were "well aware...she was highly intoxicated."  Well I am personally well aware that the police and the government and the banks are treasonous, lawless fvcks and that many of them have caused irreparable damage to this once great nation.  I'm also aware that Jefferson wrote, "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.".  Does that mean I am guilty of reckless endangerment for allowing the cops and the government to continue their attacks on our freedom, rights and privacy?  Of course, the only way to stop them at this particular point in time would be at the barrel of a gun. How different is that really than what the teenagers would have had to do to convince the drunk girl to give up the keys?  Different scale of course but no different in principle.

Ever try to talk a drunk out of his/her keys?  It might be charitable of you to attempt it and most mature adults I know would make a strong attempt.  But what if I don't know the guy very well?  What if I feel it is not my place to determine his sobriety level?  What if I know the person doesn't like me very much.  What if it would take physical force to get the keys?  Do I really want to open myself up to another police profiteering opportunity at my "assault" arrest for trying to get the keys?

Bottom line, should I decide to forcibly stop police and government from further thuggery it will be on my terms and in my own time, not because some asshat tries to put a moral obligation on me.  In similar terms, those who responsibly drove themselves home because they didn't trust the drunk girl to drive were in no way obliged to do anything to stop her from exercising her free will.  They are not her parents and they are not her keepers.  But government has to make someone guilty of a crime lest it lose an opportunity to profit from the misery of the people. It's disgusting and those who are part of this racket should be prosecuted themselves under the RICO statutes.