Investigations now,

Gibbets later.

By Jack Wylder

You don’t hear the phrase “social contract” much anymore.

It is the concept that in exchange for the individual suffering some inconvenience the State would ensure that the social order would be maintained.

In its basest, most acceptable form — the State reaches into my wallet and helps itself; in return the weakest and most vulnerable among us are protected.

This “social contract” is breaking down. And my question is: If the State isn’t going to defend the defenseless … why does the State deserve the privilege of taxation? If the State can’t fulfill this very bedrock of it’s functions … why does the State have any power over us at all?

The most recent example — and for fairness I have to say that these are currently allegations — comes to us courtesy of the Unsubscribe Podcast.

A regular member of that podcast is Detective Richard Hy — better known by his nom de cyber of Angry Cop — who used an episode to highlight some issues with the Buffalo School System in New York. I’m going to try to embed the episode below. Please be warned that it involves children; and I — as former law enforcement — found it to be rage-inducing.

If you prefer not to watch that video — and if you’re twitchy about violence involving children I suggest that you do not watch it — Detective Hy alleges that the Buffalo School System is intentionally and knowingly hiding assaults, and sexual assaults, wreaked upon children in their care, custody, and control — to the point that the Buffalo School System is destroying video evidence, stonewalling investigations, failing mandatory reporting requirements, and ignoring court sub poenas for evidence. Amongst other things.

I will stop here, and remind everyone that these are still allegations from Detective Hy.

With that out of the way … There needs to be a complete, thorough, exhaustive, and objective investigation into these allegations.

And if these allegations are found to be proven, then I want to see some occupied gibbets on the playground. I want to see some smoking craters where school officials once stood. I want to see examples made of these dacoits that the memories of will cause school officials in the far future to wake up in a sweat: “This is what happens when you fail to protect the children in your care.”

I am … enraged.

Spread the word. Hold the Buffalo School System’s feet to the fire. Demand a complete, third-party investigation now.

Ian.