Hey, I wanted to go over this video real quick. This comes from the YouTube channel Merb 34 ST. I think they just call him Merb. He's a practicing attorney and he comments on certain cases specifically in the 1A auditing community. And I wanted to go over this because there's always this question of what's a good cop, what is a bad cop, are there any good cops, can there be any good cops? He kind of addresses this. He touches this just a little bit. I want to go over what he says and then we'll talk about it in a second. >> Good morning. Happy Tuesday. It's Tuesday, isn't it? Uh before I jump into the cast, I want to respond to two comments um amongst the litany of really stupid comments I get from James Freeman supporters. The first one, hilariously, uh said "So what? All cops are good people? That would be ridiculous." And then a bunch of laughing crying emojis. No. Well, yes, that would be ridiculous. But smooth brains don't seem to understand that there's more than two options. All cops are good or all cops are bad. There's also in there a third option, which is some cops are good and some cops are bad. I like to phrase it every cop will, over the course of their career, make a mistake. Every cop will. They're all human. You can classify that as good or bad. I don't. Everybody makes mistakes. Uh I would say that cops who frequently make mistakes probably should get fired and not rehired anywhere. And cops who rarely make mistakes probably should be allowed to continue being cops. But everybody's going to make a mistake. James Freeman made a mistake. And James Freeman is your god. So, if James Freeman, your god, can make a mistake and you know, commit domestic violence and felony uh what is felony uh failure to stop for a police car, whatever whatever that charge was. >> Is that conclusive? Did James Freeman really commit domestic violence? I mean, it could be, but is that conclusive? Or is that just a report? Is that just hearsay? Do we know this for a fact? And is it really a felony to flee from police if you truly believe police are criminals and if they catch up to you, they could hurt you. And was it a felony to really just drive at a low rate of speed away from somebody who you believe is going to hurt you? >> I don't remember it. But like if if your hero can make a mistake, why can't a cop who's not your hero? So, you know, cops are human. I wouldn't worship a cop and I certainly wouldn't worship James Freeman. Um you know, they're human. Uh the other the other comment >> Okay, before you we're not going to deal with this second part cuz it really doesn't pertain to what I want to talk about here. The question of are there good cops? Are there bad cops? Are all cops good? Are all cops bad? Well, it would be a ridiculous statement if you were to broad brush any profession except law enforcement. I'll come back to that in a second. What is a good plumber? A good plumber is somebody who comes to your house, charges a good price for their labor, and fixes your plumbing problem in an efficient manner. And he cleans up after himself. That would be a good plumber. What would be a good electrician? A A good electrician would be somebody who comes in here, disassembles your light switch, checks out what the problem is, rewires or go to your goes to your fuse box, and make sure your breaker isn't blown anymore by fixing your fuses or whatever an electrician does. A good framer is somebody who comes in and for a good price efficiently comes in and builds the wall you need built so that it can properly bear the load and hold the drywall or whatever you're going to put on that wall, and he does it at a market price that is fair to you and is agreeable to the homeowner. But what would make the plumber and the electrician and the framer bad? What if you found out that their pay and the whole reason they're there to do that good job is because they received their payment through extortion. What if they shook you down? What if it wasn't a voluntary arrangement? What if they came to your door and they're like, "You are going to pay me this." And then he does this good job. Would he still be a good plumber, an electrician, or a framer if he was shaking people down and making them do something that they didn't want to do, extracting money that they didn't want extracted? No, he would no longer be good. Why? Because he did something bad. As a part of his profession, he did something bad. Are we going to say that his plumbing job wasn't good? That his electrical job wasn't up to par? That his framing job it wasn't load-bearing and as soon as they put the roof on the the wall crumbled to the ground? That would be a bad job. But what if they did a good job, but they received extortion money so that they could do that job and the next job and the next job? Well, that would make that plumber, electrician, or framer bad. And what if they did this as a practice? What if that's what all framers did? What if that's what all electricians did? What if that's what all plumbers did? They be but they belonged to this organization that specialized in extortion to pay for the plumber, the electrician, the framer. Well, they would automatically be bad no matter how good of a job that they did in practice as part of their profession. And no amount of good can wipe away that bad. It's like the husband who 364 days a year is the perfect mate. He cooks, he cleans, he pampers and babies his wife, he brings home the bacon, he provides a house for her. They have an excellent relationship, but on that 365th day he just beats the crap out of her. That is a bad husband and no amount of good can wipe away that one day of bad. Their underlying tenant, the the foundation on which they stand is extortion. It's theft at the barrel of a gun. What if they shook you down, pointed a gun in your face, and they said, "You will pay $250, and I will fix your fuse box, but this is what you're going to pay me." Yeah, you did a great job. The lights are on. The washing machine runs. The dishwasher, you know, fabulous. No No fuses are broken, but you pointed a gun in my face. You threatened harm me if I didn't pay for it. That would automatically make that those entire professions bad. Well, that's exactly what the It's supposed to be the peace officer profession, but they call it law enforcement. The word force is in there because they depend on coercion, force, and theft, extortion in order to fund their operation, which is basically a safety and protection racket. So, in that under that umbrella of understanding, is the law enforcement profession bad? Can any one of those cops in any one of those law enforcement agencies ever be considered good if they knowingly accept a paycheck understanding that that paycheck came from the resources plundered from others at the barrel of a gun. You know what the answer to that is. And to compound that, it's not just extortion by which they're funded. They actually swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, which in most cases, that's not a bad thing. Not everything in the Constitution is good. Not everything lends to the road of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and the acquisition of property. But let's just say they swore to uphold the First Amendment, the Second Amendment, and the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, and you know, maybe the Third Amendment. You know, they're not going to be quartering troops or anything, and they're not going to protect any quartering of troops. Let's say they just abided by those Those Those Those would be good things, right? But that's not all they do. They don't just swear to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. They also swear to uphold all the laws of the state, most of which go against, run contrary to, are anathetical to the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth amendments. And they actually carry those laws out like traffic laws. All of your rights are suspended under the auspices of a corporate traffic law, and they use that as justification to temporarily suspend your rights. But your rights are suspended. To use a Bill of Rights term, all of your rights are infringed upon under the color of corporate traffic law. So, cops aren't just bad because they derive a paycheck from the extortion practices and plunder of the state by unwilling people, people who don't consent to this crap, but they also swear to enforce all unconstitutional laws, which violate your right to life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness. Name me one sheriff's department that isn't a fervent supporter of civil asset forfeiture laws. And I would point you to this letter by Jim Skinner, who is the sheriff's association president, or at least he was, out of Texas, begging Dan Red Flag Law Crenshaw to extinguish HR 1525, which would severely hamper their ability to collect assets through civil asset forfeiture. Civil asset forfeiture, by the way, is legalized armed robbery. All they have to do, you don't have to commit a crime, all they have to do is suspect that that high volume, that massive amount of cash that you have in your car, Stephen Lara going from Texas to California, is being used as a resource derived from the Mexican drug cartels. All they have to do is suspect it. They don't even have to charge you with a crime. They will take your $86,000. Thank you, Steven Lara. They will take your vehicle. They will take your property. They will foreclose on your house. Cuz this is being used in a commission of a crime. Do you have any evidence for it? No, but under civil asset forfeiture, we can take it and then we can split the profits with the feds. So, they're highly incentivized to take things of value from people who are otherwise innocent. We see this all the time. Look at the Institute for Justice. They've gotten a lot of people's butts out of a sling because they were economically terrorized by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies under civil asset forfeiture. So, all those cops are bad not just cuz they derive a paycheck from the plunder of the citizenry they claim to be protecting and serving, but they're also interfering with and infringing on the rights of people who just want to pursue their idea of happiness. And that's the entire profession. I don't care if you're talking about a local, state, or federal police force. I don't care if you're talking about a police department or a sheriff's department. I don't care if you're talking about a police officer or a deputy. They're all in on this. That's how they get their income. That's how they get their paycheck. And that's the promise that they make. Basically, when you're promising to enforce all the laws of the state including drug war laws, see prohibition for the failure on that one. If they're going to enforce one single drug law, one single gun law, you know for a fact that those cops are bad. They're crooked. Does this mean that all cops and all deputies, they never ever do any good things? I've seen cops do good things. But then I question, how many bad things have they done prior to them doing this one good thing? Saving a baby from choking or giving clothing to a homeless person or actually saving the public from an armed madman, none of which any of the 376 officers on the scene at Robb Elementary School did in Uvalde, Texas. Let me just remind you, 376 officers from over five different agencies stood down as children in a school were being summarily executed, which logically tells me that if anybody from the LAPD were in those same shoes in Uvalde, if anybody from the NYPD or the Phoenix Police Department or Mesa or Terre Haute, Indiana or the Broward County Sheriff's Office in Florida, if any one of those were standing in those Uvalde Police Department shoes from all of those agencies, they would have done the exact same thing. Otherwise, you would have seen at least one person try the unlocked door and put his body in the way of danger for the sake of a classroom full of people including little kids and teachers. But you didn't see it, did you? Because not only are cops extortionists and plunderers, not only are they rights violators and tyrants, they are in a very real sense cowards. Every single one of them. 100% of 376 officers did absolutely nothing when they could have done something. They'd rather save all their energy for economically terrorizing somebody on the public highways under corporate traffic law, of course. So what is a good cop? Can there be a good cop? Can cops do good things? Absolutely. Can there be a good extortion agent, which is what you are when you derive a paycheck from the plunder of the people? I contend, no way. Just like you can't have a plumber, an electrician, or a framer who gets the sum of their paycheck from plunder, from extortion, from coercion, from state-funded, state-sanctioned violence. And the other thing that Merb was talking about is law enforcers making mistakes. >> Every cop will, over the course of their career, make a mistake. Everybody makes mistakes. >> I would say willfully committing murder and beating somebody to a pulp until he swelled up and died, yeah, I'm talking about Tyre Nichols over there in Atlanta at the hands of the Scorpion unit, whom pummeled while he's crying for his mom. Is that really a mistake, one of the mistakes that you're talking about, Merb? Did Philip Brailsford just make a mistake when he pulled the trigger five times on innocent Daniel Shaver? Did Matthew Schneider from the Glendale Police Department make a mistake when he tased Johnny Weecroft in front of his screaming children and his family 11 times, two of which were in the private parts? Was that just a mistake? Was it a mistake when Yanez offed Philando Castile as Philando Castile was just trying to comply by getting his CCW out of his wallet? Is it just a mistake? Accidentally sending your boss a racy and explicit text intended for your girlfriend, that's a mistake. Calling your teacher babe in home room accidentally when answering a question, that's a mistake. Gunning down Johnny Hurley and shooting him in the back after he saved the Arvada Police Department, that's intentional. Dislocating Karen Gardner's shoulder, throwing her to the ground, and then leaving her in a cage handcuffed while you mock her outside reviewing the body cam, that ain't no mistake, Merb. When the Knapp Commission back in the 1970s and the Mollen Commission in 1994 concluded that the NYPD, the entire NYPD, was corrupt from top to bottom, including brutality, theft, and active police criminality. That's not a mistake. That's a system that's built on plunder, economic terrorism, outright extortion, coercion, and let's just call it what it is, outright active evil. And with that umbrella of understanding, with that foundation of definitions on what theft actually is, what extortion actually is, and the fact that you can't clean it up with euphemistic terminology, testifies to the fact, not the belief, but the fact that all cops are bad because they chose to be part of a system that is utterly corrupt. And even though it's possible for them to do some good things, just as possible as it was for the SS soldiers who followed Hitler to do good things, it does not wipe away the fact that they have promised to uphold all laws, which is utterly evil. Leave your thoughts about this for the world and the global thought police in the comment section below. If you want to support the channel, you can do it for free by liking this video, sharing this video, subscribing to the channel, hitting the bell notification icon. Hey Merb, I'd like to get your response to this. If you think I'm wrong, show me where I'm wrong. Take care.