Well you see, in 1492, European colonists arrived in the Americas. Ever since then, there has steadily been the implementation of patriarchal, racist institutions and laws (slavery and things like the Dawes Act of 1887, respectively).
Those two things imposed completely foreign attitudes about ownership onto self-sufficient, autonomous, and (for the most part) egalitarian Indian Nations. The Dawes Act divided Indian Reservations (abominations to begin with) into individual plots of land that would be given out at the discretion of the federal government. This completely underminded, and indeed, illegalized, the concepts of communal ownership and communal production that our indigenous people embraced for centuries.
"No laws and ordinances, sheriffs and constables, judges and juries, or courts and jails - the apparatus of authority in European societies - were to be found in the northeast woodlands prior to European arrival. Yet boundaries of acceptable behavior were firmly set. Though priding themselves on the autonomous individual
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this statement would suggest that cops are going to 1) BE THERE when your house is being robbed/ family being murdered and 2) DO something about.
the fact that people want a job where they can police other people and monitor their behavior and reprimand them for that behavior, automatically makes that person an asshole. no questions.
It’s not just that the police cannot protect you. They don’t even have to come when you call. In most states the government and police owe no legal duty to protect individual citizens from criminal attack. The District of Columbia’s highest court spelled out plainly the “fundamental principle that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any particular individual citizen
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I've heard that D.C. cops are really bad, crime is really bad, and that's even after handguns have been illegal to own there for 30 years. Crazy stuff.
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Those two things imposed completely foreign attitudes about ownership onto self-sufficient, autonomous, and (for the most part) egalitarian Indian Nations. The Dawes Act divided Indian Reservations (abominations to begin with) into individual plots of land that would be given out at the discretion of the federal government. This completely underminded, and indeed, illegalized, the concepts of communal ownership and communal production that our indigenous people embraced for centuries.
"No laws and ordinances, sheriffs and constables, judges and juries, or courts and jails - the apparatus of authority in European societies - were to be found in the northeast woodlands prior to European arrival. Yet boundaries of acceptable behavior were firmly set. Though priding themselves on the autonomous individual ( ... )
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the fact that people want a job where they can police other people and monitor their behavior and reprimand them for that behavior, automatically makes that person an asshole. no questions.
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