Dear policeman: Youre not a peace officer. Your job is not Law Enforcement. Those are euphemisms. You dont keep the peace. You routinely initiate conflicts where, otherwise, no conflict would have been. You are an agent by which your employer uses violence to enforce a monopoly on law de facto. The vast majority of the disputes that you initiate on behalf of your employer are also adjudicated by your employer, where the plaintiff, the judge, the antagonist (thats you) and the only witness (also you), all represent the same party, and, since no corpus delicti, mens rea or acts reus can be produced, doesnt technically qualify to be heard according to its own laws. Your employer is indistinguishable from a criminal cartel. You do not serve us. When the matter of whether or not you have a duty to protect the subjects of your employer has been brought before one of your employers courts, your employer has decided that you do not. But, when you are charged with the task of using deadly force to apprehend a person who has incurred no liability for damages to anyone, you are obligated to obey. Everything Ive written, here, is literally true. I understand that you cant believe that, but, once you strip away all the obfuscation and rationalizations, nothing else remains. So, you see, even if you always do your job, as you believe it to be, to what you believe to be the best of your ability, you cannot be a good cop. There is no such thing as a good cop because what cops do is, by necessity of its nature, bad. Definitions: Corpus delicti (plural: corpora delicti) (Latin: body of crime) is a term from Western jurisprudence referring to the principle that a crime must have been proven to have occurred before a person can be convicted of committing that crime. For example, a person cannot be tried for larceny unless it can be proven that property has been stolen. Likewise, in order for a person to be tried for arson it must be proven that a criminal act resulted in the burning of a property. Blacks Law Dictionary (6th ed.) defines corpus delicti as: the fact of a crime having been actually committed. Mens rea is Latin for guilty mind.[1] In criminal law, it is viewed as one of the necessary elements of some crimes. The standard common law test of criminal liability is usually expressed in the Latin phrase, actus non facit reum nisi mens sit rea, which means the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty. Thus, in jurisdictions with due process, there must be an actus reus, or guilty act, accompanied by some level of mens rea to constitute the crime with which the defendant is charged. Actus reus, sometimes called the external element or the objective element of a crime, is the Latin term for the guilty act which, when proved beyond a reasonable doubt in combination with the mens rea, guilty mind, produces criminal liability in common law-based criminal law jurisdictions. De facto is a Latin expression that means concerning fact. In law, it often means in practice but not necessarily ordained by law or in practice or actuality, but not officially established. It is commonly used in contrast to de jure (which means concerning the law) when referring to matters of law, governance, or technique (such as standards) that are found in the common experience as created or developed without or contrary to a regulation. When discussing a legal situation, de jure designates what the law says, while de facto designates action of what happens in practice. It is analogous and similar to the expressions for all intents and purposes or in fact.
Posted on: Fri, 02 May 2014 08:40:04 +0000
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