mr peters shares some thoughts about the empire's version of 'policing';

Do you feel anxious when you glance in the rearview and notice there’s a plumber’s truck behind you? You might even feel relieved – if your upstairs bathroom piping failed and water’s rapidly ruining everything below.

But otherwise? Why would you? Plumbers don’t constitute a menace. Law enforcers, on the other hand. . . .

Almost everyone gets a little edgy when they glance in the rearview and see one behind them – or up ahead, sitting by the side of the road. Why is that? After all, the majority of us are not criminals.

But there is a law we may have failed to obey.

The distinction is important.

Criminals, properly speaking, are the minority among us who actively seek to harm others, in the literal sense of the italicized word. Criminals deliberately commit acts of violence. They accost people physically – sometimes just because they’re thugs and enjoy doing that sort of thing. Or they threaten to accost them physically, so as to get them to hand over their property. Some just take (or deliberately damage) the property of others when the owner isn’t there to accost.

This is the essence of criminality..........more........