Are they letting crime run out of control because they want to institute a police state? From Jeffrey Tucker at The Epoch Times via zerohedge.com:
The National Guard and the State Police are now patrolling the New York City subway system in an attempt to do something about the explosion of crime. As part of this, there are bag checks and new surveillance of all passengers. No legislation, no debate, just an edict from the mayor.
Many citizens who rely on this system for transportation might welcome this. It’s a city of strict gun control, and no one knows for sure if they have the right to defend themselves. Merchants have been harassed and even arrested for trying to stop looting and pillaging in their own shops.
The message has been sent: Only the police can do this job. Whether they do it or not is another matter.
Things on the subway system have gotten crazy. If you know it well, you can manage to travel safely, but visitors to the city who take the wrong train at the wrong time are taking grave risks.
In actual fact, it’s guaranteed that this will only end in confiscating knives and other things that people carry in order to protect themselves while leaving the actual criminals even more free to prey on citizens.
The law-abiding will suffer and the criminals will grow more numerous. It will not end well.
When you step back from the details, what we have is the dawning of a genuine police state in the United States. It only starts in New York City. Where is the Guard going to be deployed next? Anywhere is possible.
Anarcho-Tyranny.
You don’t vote your way out of a CPUSA/CCP coup.
We have no Churchill and not even a Thatcher as the Long March of the enemy EDU wraps up.
The egalitarian workers utopia with some hammer and sickle to the face of deplorable kulak untermenschen shirker scum who stand in the way of the Benetton rainbow just by existing.
Forward!
Si se puede.