Organized Crime
There have been protests following the alleged murder of a black man by the police in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Mobs of rioters also took to burning and looting businesses in their area.
Organized crime can exist in both mobs and governments. Looters and murderers on both sides are the problem.
For instance, George Floyd’s crime was using illicitly printed money, as if using legally printed money by the Federal Reserve did not cheat people out of their money too. According to a May 29th article in the New York Times,
“Mr. Floyd’s case began with a report of a counterfeit $20 bill that a storekeeper said he tried to pass to buy cigarettes.”[1]
From the view of Saint Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Paine, organized crime was organized crime- even when it was done by the government.
Saint Augustine wrote in The City of God (426) that governments and piracy are the same. Specifically,
“Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms? The band itself is made up of men; it is ruled by the authority of a prince, it is knit together by the pact of the confederacy; the booty is divided by the law agreed on. If, by the admittance of abandoned men, this evil increases to such a degree that it holds places, fixes abodes, takes possession of cities, and subdues peoples, it assumes the more plainly the name of a kingdom, because the reality is now manifestly conferred on it, not by the removal of covetousness, but by the addition of impunity. Indeed, that was an apt and true reply which was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, ‘What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.’”[2]
Writing in Common Sense, Thomas Paine compared government to a generational mafia protection racket,
“This is supposing the present race of kings in the world to have had an honorable origin: whereas it is more than probable, that, could we take off the dark covering of antiquity and trace them to their first rise, we should find the first of them nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang, whose savage manners or pre-eminence in subtilty obtained him the title of chief among plunderers: and who by increasing in power and extending his depredations, overawed the quiet and defenceless to purchase their safety by frequent contributions.” [3]
The looting by the mob could get worse but it pales in comparison to the looting caused by the Federal Reserve counterfeiting fake dollars to finance organized crime in government and the resulting impoverishment that is exacerbating societal differences.[4]
"Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose." -John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Chapter VI pg 236
The solution to any source of oganized crime in a free country is a well trained and well armed citizenry.
Hence the 2nd Amendment to the US’ Constitution states,
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Free men (black and white) defending businesses from looting, Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 2020.
Free men (Roof Koreans) defending their businesses from looting in the 1992 Los Angelos, California Riots.
[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/29/us/derek-chauvin-george-floyd-worked-together.amp.html
[2] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/45304/45304-h/45304-h.htm Book 4, chapter 4, How like kingdoms without justice are to robberies
[3]https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/academics/founders/Paine_CommonSense.pdf Common Sense (1776), Of Monarchy and Hereditary Succession, Page 80
[4]https://www.hamiltonmobley.com/blog/interest-rates-and-inflation
