It’s been well known for many years that the law enforcement industry has embraced the “comply or die” mentality. You either obey them –comply– or you die…of course always sprinkled heavily with ‘officer safety’ (police get out of jail free card). This we certainly know is especially true with federal law enforcement agents…their authority is never to be questioned, let alone resisted…just ask the FBI. The utter arrogance of federal LEOs (especially the FBI) is staggering, their delusion of grandeur knows no limits, their lust for power and authority knows no bounds.

In my series “POST-DISASTER PERSONALITIES,” part 4 (Mass Murderers) article I covered a personality phenomena, where during WWII, a strange transition took place. The book Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning documented in detail how normal, everyday police officers in Germany (non-Nazis) became maniacal, unrestrained mass murders. And they did so while performing law enforcement duties…sort of…if you consider rounding up hundreds of thousands of Jews to be shot outright or sent to gas chambers to be murdered en mass, as their duty. But the pretense of their mission was to keep the peace in recently conquered territories, primarily Poland.

I read the book closely, searching for details, documenting and scribbling notes in the margins. A very clear pattern began to develop…a “comply and die” mentality among the thousands upon thousands of police officers’ victims.

Mothers holding infants, fathers hold son’s hands, brothers carrying sisters almost to the person obeyed the orders of the German police officers…even knowing they were going to their deaths. At times they could even hear the gun shots at the slaughter pits as they willingly walked directly towards those same pits and their certain deaths.

Since this pattern of “comply and die” wasn’t the focus of the article I was writing back then, I held off relaying this phenomena until now. However, at this point in time, in the US and world in general, with everything going on around us…now is the time I must write about it. It is germane to our times…and I believe this knowledge to be essential to our very survival.

After several hundreds of pages of reading there was only a single question that mattered to me in regards to this mentality…Why?

Why in the world would they obey these police officers’ orders knowing full well they were going to their certain deaths? But not just their deaths…the deaths of their spouses, their children, their brothers, their sisters, their grandparents, their aunts and uncles, neighbors…even entire families! Why would they choose to comply and die vs resist and at least have a chance at living?

My first thought was “hope” that something might happen, some miracle might occur that would prevent their horrific ending…a bullet in the head or a lethal gas shower. But day after day, month after month, year after year proved that no such miracle was going to come and save them. Their end was certain…it was inevitable…it was death. So “hope” didn’t seem likely as a reason.

Then it became painfully clear…they had been conditioned to “comply”…comply to authority. By in large, the majority of the folks rounded up were good people…the children most certainly were. In their communities they were good citizens, good neighbors, good family members, and obedient to police authority; some had fathers and brothers that were German army veterans of WWI. However, the police were the representatives of, the enforcers of, government. So they were conditioned from childhood to obey the police…obey the orders of government…to comply to authority no matter what.

And to reinforce premise of that concept…the whole of Europe had been under the rule of tyrannical and oppressive monarchs, kings, dictators, emperors, and ruthless conquerors for thousands of years. You could easily make the case that “comply,” “submission,” “obey”…even serfdom…had become part of their mental state, if not their genetic structure.

Could there also have existed the concept that police officers were the good guys, the ones who helped, the ones who arrested the bad guys, the ones who protected them, the ones who served up justice. Were the police were viewed, almost universally, as the good guys. Well, maybe not so fast.

Police are police, cops are cops…and in my article “Do We Need Police Reform?” I pointed out the cold hard facts in the US at least:

• Only about 18% of all property crimes are solved.
• Only about 45% of all violent crimes are solved.

On any grading scale those results are a resounding grade of “F”. And to make matters worse…police in the US cost US citizens trillions of dollars every year out of our pockets. There is no evidence that the German police officers were any different…very likely not the ‘good guys’ in any objective term.

Don’t jump to conclusions…I am not saying that all police are wicked or evil…but the German police officers became such…when ordered to do so. And the millions of citizens that were marched off to their deaths didn’t see a problem with the whole “comply and die” thing.

Again…Why?

I think ‘comply and die’ was ultimately based on three things:

1. The mentality that all cops are good all of the time and only want what is best for us.
2. The concept that the police are, or at least represent, ultimate authority and must be obeyed in order for someone to be considered a good person and loyal citizen…and to stay out of prison.
3. They didn’t recognize the transition of police officers to evil mass murderers…or they had no mental foundation with which to resist that evil.

It is painfully evident that #1 is utterly untrue. There is no hard and fast evidence as to what percentage of cops are good or bad. Based on the increasing number of bad cops being arrested, tired, and imprisoned…and applying some statistical norms…I believe 30 – 55% of all law enforcement officers could easily and accurately be classified as “bad” or close to it.

As for #2, the first part is true…cops are, or represent present day ultimate authority, governmental authority. They are referred to as “law enforcement officers” not public/citizen protectors or rights/liberties/freedom defenders. No, they exist to enforce the law that government bureaucrats and politicians impose on, force upon, us. But what about the second part of #2…if we disobey LEOs, does that make us a bad person? Does it make us a disloyal citizen?

What about disobeying a bad cop? Or, how about disobeying a good cop in the act of enforcing an unconstitutional law? What does that make an otherwise regular person in those situations?

Just for a minute…take #2 in the context of the Nazi Germany. Or how about in the context of the American Revolution? Think about that for a minute if you would, please.

Finally #3, why didn’t they see the transition? I mean to me it seemed pretty dang obvious…ticket pushers to mass murderers shooting infants and sometimes just burying people alive en masse. Or, did the police officers make transition slower…one step at a time…one lie at a time…one small incremental change at a time?

Or, as I suspect…did the people being forced to their deaths simply not have the spiritual or mental foundation to resist evil? Did they, with extremely few exceptions, lack the courage or will or mental ability to resist the horrific monstrous actions taking place? Was the ‘comply’ concept so overriding they simply could do nothing else?

Those observations and speculations are from the comfort of hindsight…hardly fair to those that lived through it. I acknowledge that and appropriately apologize to those that I have offended.

Here is the question that is now bothering me right this minute…Are we living through it now?

Obviously LEOs in the US are not mass murderers…although there are plenty of reports daily of cops killing unarmed people, sicking attack dogs on people to mutilate and kill them, etc.. In the US we don’t have widespread, or even small areas, where cops are rounding-up people to shoot them or send them off to the gas chambers. But what if they were already taking those small incremental steps to get to that point? Acquiring the unquestionable authority and means to become that which can become monstrous?

What if they were already militarized with gear and weapons? What if they already used military vehicles and tactics? What if they already assumed martial law authority when it suits them? What if over the last 130 years they have steadily eroded our rights, liberties, and freedoms? What if they have already established the right to stop and demand identification from anyone they wish? What if they already worked with secret FISA courts outside of US Constitutional due process? What if they have moved beyond the concept of “comply or die” to “comply and die anyway”?

What if we have been completely conditioned to “comply” in order to be a good person and loyal citizen?

Stand up patriot…salute the flag with the blue stripe damn it!!

What if we are being threatened into submission?

What if the Colonists 250 years ago had, to the person, been completely conditioned to comply with British soldiers enforcing the laws of a tyrannical and oppressive British government? Where would we, the USA, be now? Would the US Constitution even exist? Would there even be a USA if the Colonists had been successfully conditioned to comply?

Would we, individually, become so conditioned as to comply with…well, anything and everything we were/are told/ordered to do? Are we already there? Do we resist the wrong, evil, or illegal aspects of government or their minions today in the here and now…or do we accept it and move on?

Or, as freedom loving, Constitution loving, individuals…do we know how to exercise our agency when it really matters? Do we know when we should not comply? Do we have the courage and will to not comply? Do we know how to appropriately not comply?

Maybe, just maybe…that is why we have the Bill of Rights!  Questions is…Do we have the courage, mental fortitude, and willingness to not comply…to resist…to fight against…evil?

What would our Founding Fathers do?

 

 

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Related Article –

• Authoritarian(ism)
• POST-DISASTER PERSONALITIES : Part 4 (new) – Mass Murderers
• Do We Need Police Reform? (Part #1)
• No more gray man…TIME TO BE BOLD !
• Rise Up !
• “Rise up !” Actions & Suggestions
• SitRep – 10/19/2022 – Dire Warning !
• Conversation with Ron…EXCELLENT !
• Seems there’s a little frustration…
• Fantastic Response from Jim

 

 

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