The Right To Be Left Alone… ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL)

The Right To Be Left Alone…  ~ BLOGGER.GUNNY.G.1984 ~ (BLOG & EMAIL):

The Right To Be Left Alone…

September 22, 2007 Gunny G Edit Leave a comment Go to comments

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The Right To Be Left Alone…

POLICE AS A STANDING ARMY…?


PART II

POLICE AS A STANDING ARMY

It is largely forgotten that the war for American independence was initiated in large part by the British Crown‘s practice of using troops to police civilians in Boston and other cities.244 Professional soldiers used in the same ways as modern police were among the primary grievances enunciated by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.

(“[George III] has kept among us standing armies”; “He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power”; “protecting them, by a mock trial….”).245

The duties of such troops were in no way military but involved the keeping of order and the suppression of crime (especially customs and tax violations).
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