My suggestion for Atlanta's residents is take care of your own problems and quit asking Mayor Bottoms and Governor Kemp to fix your $#@!.
I will admit that was my opinion as well, initially.
However, it seems to be unreasonable when you take it to extremes. Someone stole your weed-whacker? Deal with it yourself. Bank committed fraud against you? Deal with it yourself. Someone murdered your kid? Deal with it yourself. These examples are the very reasons we have a government in the first place. Granted, 99.99999 percent of the time the government is out doing things it isn't supposed to be doing. Then it actually fulfills its purpose and someone comes on here trying to make us feel guilty because, well, we actually don't really mind.
I'm sorry, but sometimes relying on a sudden groundswell of generic people to rise up and restore order just isn't practical. For one, we talk a lot of talk about how these things would play out in libertarianopia, but by and large it
rarely happens, and even if it does happen, it doesn't always turn into the ideal outcome that so many people seem to think it would be. I mean, we all saw what CHOP/CHAZ/whatever looked like. No government for weeks, and by the time all the crackhead animals moved into the zoo, it didn't look like a destination I'd ask my travel agent to arrange a vacation for me.
Supposing you could get a citizens militia to rise up and patrol the streets, it's not far fetched to think someone else raises one to contest your authority (I mean, what right do you have, after all?), and I'm just scratching my head as to how that is somehow
less divisive than the people on here who claim we're just stuck in red team/blue team nonsense.
Let's be clear: We're chastised for not reaching out to people on the left because we disagree with them now, but if the system breaks down and this plays out like I predict it will, it's somehow fine if we devolve into a 'might-makes-right' form of unofficial governance. Which, ironically, in essence, becomes a government by any other name. I just don't see it as a preferable outcome.
I'm not trying to insult you here, but I really wish we'd think it all the way through, and consider all possible consequences. It seems much less an invitation for tragedy for these people to be arrested and tried by a government (even if it doesn't have the specific authority), because we all know that from the ashes of civil unrest, a "hero" politician rises to 'greatness'.
I support their right to a fair trial, but that's as far as I go. I do not think it is acceptable for them to continue to ruin the lives of people who are left at the mercy of what are essentially self-appointed warlords.
