Dear Slavey - October 17th Edition

Earlier this week our editor-in-chief Jeff Berwick wrote an article explaining why it is never a good idea to call the police. We know that must seem like an extreme position to take, especially if you’ve been conditioned to think that the police are really there for your protection, but it is a position that is making more and more sense every day as the US becomes more of a militarized police state.

Thing is, we’re voluntaryist free marketers. So we don’t like public policing at all for the same reason we don’t like “public” anything, including schooling or housing. Anything provided by government is paid for with stolen money and is inherently of lower quality than that which would be provided by the market. Public policing will always fall short of its supposed goal of protecting people and instead just become a tool of enforcing the laws of the ruling class. Like those in the hip hop community, anarcho-capitalists can never see the police as anything other than overseers on the plantation that is the state.

Today’s inquiry to Dear Slavey makes the case and reminds us that the police are something to be feared and avoided.

Dear Slavey,

I do odd jobs to survive and travel around in my truck with lots of tools. One afternoon the police pulled me over for a broken tail light. While the guy was writing up a $50 ticket he noticed some bolt cutters I had in my back seat. I explained that I need them for my job and he freaked out telling me he should arrest me for having tools used for theft and he took them away. I know it doesn’t really matter if anything is ‘legal’ anymore because the police do what they want, but what’s up with that? Sometimes I have to cut locks off for people who’ve lost their keys. I’m not breaking into houses. Is making a freaking living illegal now? I thought of recording what he was doing, but that opens up a whole other can of worms, doesn’t it?

Pete in Orlando, FL

Dear Pete,

We are living in a police state. It doesn’t matter what’s legal and what’s not anymore, so the best advice I can give you in the future is to have as little interaction with the police as possible. I can’t stress this enough because unless you have money to hire really expensive lawyers, especially in smaller jurisdictions, they’ll just throw you in jail if they don’t like what you’re doing and the ‘law’ doesn’t matter. It’s not illegal own tools, but unless the police feel you have a good reason to have them, or you’re not dealing with a total dick (I think that’s what happened to you), they’ll just tell you they’re illegal and take them away. And if you’re thinking of recording the encounter get ready to really piss them off, although that’s not technically illegal either. Follow this handy guide for recording your next encounter with the police.

If you would like to get more Dear Slavey, check out our brand new newsletter: TDV Homegrown. It’s written specifically for those of you readers who have to remain in the USSA police state during its economic collapse and social turmoil.

In this month’s issue not only will you get more useful advice from Slavey on medical insurance and being in police custody…

…You will also get some advice from our newest contributor that could save your life one day. TDV assistant editor Justin O’Connell is also on hand to tell you why you might want to get a national ID card, and Justin also has information on the perfect job for the Homegrown type and how to get it. If you have to be in the USSA as things get worse, this could be the ideal way for you to make a living.

To sign up, just click here and scroll down to the bottom of the page and select “Homegrown $39/yearly”. And you read that pricing right. Homegrown is only $39 for a year’s subscription. After all, this newsletter is specifically to help those without the resources to set themselves up comfortably in another country and who will have to continue living through America’s economic decline. So we’ve priced it accordingly! 

Justin and I also have a couple personal anecdotes with police encounters that you might find both entertaining and instructive. I hope you join us over at TDV Homegrown soon. 

Regards,

Editor, The Dollar Vigilante
Managing Editor, TDV Homegrown

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