Treo wrote:
Why would they stop someone from making FTF purchases from the line ?
I mean I understand WHY but can they legally do that ?
No. But they won't be dissuaded from issuing dictates merely because some inconvenient law does not allow them to do so. You must obey them. Why? Because you are bound in morality and justice to obey them? No. You must obey them because if you don't, they will do violence to you because they can. It's not about upholding justice, but about upholding their egos. It's very simple.
Wherever there is the idea that one's actions are always justified so long as the person is "doing his job," or "following orders," injustice and unnecessary violence follow in its wake.
The most insidious thing about such a mindset is that the person who is under its influence is almost entirely unaware of it, as any convert to Christianity can tell you. Pride and arrogance are universally detestable traits, but no one who is very prideful or arrogant will admit that he is either prideful or arrogant.
There are very few policemen out there who think they
only have a right to stop people from performing intrinsically unjust aggressive or fraudulent acts against other people. They think they have the right to stop people for acts that are "wrong" only because they are prohibited.
This is known as law-worship. To paraphrase an acquaintance of mine, "They believe that people exist to serve a law, not that a law exists to serve the people."
There is a difference between a law that actually serves people, and a law that was passed with the intent to serve people. An example of the former, a law that actually serves people, is a law that says, "You cannot murder, rape, or rob other people." An example of the latter, a law that is
intended to serve the people, but does not, is one such as prohibition of alcohol. (Or guns, or drugs.) The effects of such a law are counterproductive to actually attaining a well-intended end. The law, then, is destructive of the end which it seeks to accomplish. But such a law still serves, as Jefferson said, the favorite purposes of enlarging the government, and giving more power to those who already hold power. (Read: "Not you, prole.")
When police officers are voluntarily-funded, and when they do nothing but protect the lives, liberty and property of individual people from real, immediate acts of aggression, they will be deserving of respect.
Today, however, over 70% of the acts they perform involve bullying non-violent, non-dangerous people. They do, of course, perform these actions while fully believing that they are helping the individuals in society. They have to believe it. No one can knowingly choose to do evil for evil's sake.
-Sans Authoritas
