Posted on | September 3, 2025 | No Comments
“Ultimately, police exist not to protect the public from criminals, but to protect criminals from the public,” Professor Glenn Reynolds has said. As in so many cases, however, the advancements of civilization are generally taken for granted by the destructive agents of “progressivism.”
Most Americans have little appreciation for such rights as trial by jury, enshrined in our Bill of Rights more than two centuries ago, which still remain unknown in much of the world. Our justice system rests upon a foundation that took centuries for our distant ancestors to construct, but how many people have taken time to read Winston Churchill’s A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, which recounts this development?
Furthermore, however, the origins of modern police are so little known that, during the 2020 peak of “Black Lives Matter” mania, it was widely claimed (and apparently, believed by many) that our police forces originated as patrols to apprehend slaves — a hateful myth so far from the truth that it cannot be considered a mere error, but is rather a deliberate libel. The world’s first police force was established in England in 1829 under the guidance of Sir Robert Peel. In the U.S., “The first organized, publicly funded professional full-time police services were established in Boston in 1838, New York in 1844, and Philadelphia in 1854.” However, uutside of large cities — which were the only places with sufficient tax revenue to support a full-time police force — law enforcement remained in the hands of the county sheriff, a title which itself derives from origins in England (the “reeve” of the “shire”).
On the American frontier, the agencies of law enforcement were so limited that the pioneers mainly had to rely on themselves to defend their lives and property, which is why the horse thief could expect no more “justice” than could be obtained with a long rope and a tall tree. The concept of “frontier justice” was behind the once-famous advice that Andrew Jackson got from his mother, which has been variously quoted, either: “Andy, never tell a lie, nor take what is not your own, nor sue for slander, settle those cases yourself.” Or: “Never bring a suit in law for assault and battery or for defamation. The law affords no remedy for such outrages that can satisfy the feelings of a true man.” In other words, there are times when you just have to whup somebody’s ass.
All of this is preamble to an online video, reportedly recorded in Australia, of a young fellow who decided to whup somebody’s ass. The algorithm won’t allow that video to be embedded, but what it shows is a Muslim youth who allegedly was seeking to have sex with an underage girl, but when he showed up at a park to meet her, was confronted by someone who, I suppose, was the girl’s older brother. A solid beatdown was delivered, probably sufficient to deter repeat offenses.
A reminder that the police exist primarily to protect criminals from vigilante justice. Lax law enforcement (and two-tier justice) will have consequences that liberals won’t like. https://t.co/3LhLmfKqOv
— The Patriarch Tree (@PatriarchTree) September 2, 2025
We have seen widespread unrest in the United Kingdom lately because the law enforcement establishment there has failed to protect young girls from such menaces, and if something isn’t done to correct this failure, I suspect we’ll see more such vigilante measures. You have been warned.
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