When Americans are introduced to the idea of community policing, it always sounds fine to us. We like the idea of an orderly system where the rule of law is enforced. We're tired of being robbed and having crack houses next door. We're sick of the mess and the lawslessness that rules many American communities.
The problem is, community policing is not the American way to restore law and order. It's based on the works of Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler and Etzioni. What do these men have in common? They all subscribed to a form of dialectical reasoning, which has no parallel structure in any of the foundations for legitimate U.S. government. Community Policing eliminates many specific Rights guaranteed by both the U.S. and all 50 individual State Constitutions.(1)
The goal of every dialectic is to find a "synthesis" to conflicting ideologies. The communal (abolish private property) values of the Marxist-Zionist left were synthesized with the communal (forsake private wealth) values of the Christian faith. The religious/political beliefs of the Pope, a Fabian Zionist named Amitai Etzioni, and Catholic Jesuit priests are the entire basis for the recent push for "a return" to community policing in Anchorage, Alaska. Merged with concepts from an ancient Talmudic system of law (not the Torah-Bible) and Marxism, community policing also represents the political agenda of the Holy Roman Empire.(2)
While U.S. law was extablished to protect and maintain individual Rights, each one of these systems advocates eliminating property rights for individuals, confiscation of public and private property, and "re-distribution" of all wealth (usually into their own coffers). This is the difference between U.S. law and community "values."
Community Policing was first suggested by the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) sometime around 1990. The DLC was formed to promote the Ultimate Third Way (the communitarian synthesis of ideals). Its vague and misunderstood mission was to help "create safe and livable communities" by implementing innovative new laws and programs in local American towns and cities.
In 1994 President Clinton created the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) after the US Congress adopted the Violent Crime Act of 1994. For over a decade, 100,000 new COPS actively established the international rule of law in every state in the nation. Community Policing is a world-wide program included in UN Local Agenda 21, and it was all adopted by Clinton and Congress in 1993.(3)
At first glance, community policing appears as benign as its title. (Visions of friendly cops on bikes is a favorite image.) But the core foundation for community policing is the obscure communitarian theology of building a global collective society under the control of an international government. Community Policing is basically communist policing with a friendlier face. Community Police assist global planners to re-build America into communitarian-communist collectives. (4)
Local groups of "inter-faith" activists are actually made up of many professional community organizers who are trained to create communities based in communitarian values. (5) Community Building is a another communitarian concept that balances the rights of individuals against their responsibilities to the community. Always included in the Community Building agenda is to, "work with public officials to implement changes in public policy." (6) Community councils must first establish themselves as the "liason" group between the citizens and the government. Community Development agencies need the "people" themselves to call for various community building plans the City plans to implement. This legitimizes their rush to fill the need, and they can always say, "It's what the community asked for." (7.)
Changes in public policy always begin in the most depressed urban neighborhoods and government housing projects. Pilot programs testing new and innovative ways around individual's Rights have been tested from Boston to Seattle. They were all very successful since no one in their right mind defends the privacy or property rights of drug dealers and scary minority teenagers. High crime neighborhoods are very real to the people who live in them, and we don't blame them for assuming the new policing programs were "necessary." Cleaning up the neighborhood has a very nice ring to it. Nobody ever argues it. Many new initiatives and bills were adopted using the phrase Creating Safe Streets and variations of this "idea." (8)
Portions of the COPS' program are released to the general public on a "need to know" basis. This would include the whole data-gathering and map-making program. Capacity mapmakers go door-to-door, house-to-house, city-to-city gathering data on hidden human capital assets. The software for this map-making is produced by various corporations and distributed through Housing and Urban Development (HUD's Community 2020 Data Software), Community Redevelopment Projects, and the specially designed COMPASS program ("invented" by the DLC-COPS in D.C., back when SPD Chief Kerlikowske was Director of Grants). The COMPASS (Community Mapping Planning and Analysis for Safety Strategies) database includes information from every government database they could access in June 2000 (many State agencies held out for a while). It includes "anecdotal data" gathered by friendly COPS during Neighborhood Action Team projects, mostly funded throughout the 1980s via HUD's Weed & Seed grants. (9)
Community policing efforts in citizen data-gathering are also part and parcel to many new Homeland Security grants, created since the "need" was established after September 11, 2001. The need for more data (to fulfil the vision for the database) is directly tied into creating "new" national anti-terrorist standards for Driver's Licenses (Amitai Etzioni himself suggested the changes for Alaskans). Communitarians at Northwestern University designed the original "interviews" in 1999 used by community faith based organizations to "map community capacity" in 2000. Included in ABCD information packets are detailed personal questionaires about our skills and ability to perform low-level service tasks. The data also includes religious, political and fraternal associations, along with our name, address, phone #, age, DOB, etc. Community activists are trained to go door-to-door with the COPS gathering data during friendly neighborhood "knock and talks."(10)
Christian-Zionism is a very strong political movement in the US. Their members serve on every commmunity development council in the country. Many are paid to participate. The Faith-Based Initiative (Executive Order #) provided the seed money for religious groups that agreed to implement the goals and objectives of Reinventing America. Other grants provide alternate sources of funds to corporate developers, architects, and building contractors, with awards (and accountability) similar to what we've seen with our Rebuilding the World program in Iraq, also called "public-private partnerships". (11)
The Communitarian philosophy is that Americans need to be taught how to be more moral participants in their new democracy. The new COPS' capacity database can identify our "potential for crime," be used to "assign" us to "volunteer tasks" as part of our "new" responsibility to the community, and potentially help the government help us "find jobs." (12) Communitarians never seek to change America using our established proper and legal channells for Amendments to the Constitution. Legal changes require open disclosure, public debates, and a 3/4 majority passage in all 50 States. Since average Americans don't follow the COPS' agenda very closely (most know nothing about it), they rarely show up to put their two cents into the community "debates." Any dissenters quickly learn all dissenting voices are silenced in the community building process. Nobody in on the "change" wants the voting public to answer the most important question we can ask today:
Should we eliminate the U.S. Constitution in favor of Communitarian Values?
In a legitimate law making session in the United States, whether it be Municipal, County, Bourough, State or federal, there are only elected representatives who swear to uphold the Constitution of both their home states and the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights. In a communitarian lawmaking session (13), there are only selfless, concerned citizens, stakeholders, bureaucrats, investors, insurers, and COPS. And, in case you were wondering, yes, most states have retained the Right to bring a People's Initiative to repeal unjust, poorly written, innovative or unconstitutional legislative acts (in spite of 1000 Friends). A constitution can be a wonderful tool.
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Notes:
1. Hegel's followers all used a strong totalitarian state to control the masses. Communitarian policing originated in the philosophy of opposites constantly fighting which eventually creates a perfect synthesis. We explain Hegel thoroughly in our undisputed thesis (first published in full on 12/17/03): What is the Hegelian Dialectic? (http://nord.twu.net/acl/dialectic.html) and The Historical Evolution of Communitarian Thinking (http://nord.twu.net/acl//manifesto.html).
2. Communitarianism is not only the synthesis in the left v. right dialectic, it also appears to be the synthesis in the Bible v. Talmud dialectic. "PICO was founded in 1972 under the leadership Father John Baumann, a Jesuit priest who had learned community organizing in Chicago. PICO began as a regional training institute to help support neighborhood organizations in California."(http://www.piconetwork.org/ab_history.asp). For a good explanation of the communitarian synthesis, see: Basic Ecclesial Communities in Brazil: The Challenge of a New Way of Being Church, By Marcello deC. Azevedo, S.J.Washington, D.C., Georgetown University Press, 1987. 304 Pp. $24.95 ($14.95 Paper). "This is a useful addition to the growing literature on the basic ecclesial communities (CEB's) in Latin America. Written by a Brazilian Jesuit with degrees in cultural anthropology and missiology, it provides a valuable overview of the theory and practice of what Azevedo calls a " paradigm shift" in the Brazilian Catholic church."(http://theologytoday.ptsem.edu/apr1988/v45-1-bookreview15.htm)
3. COPS did not originate from loyal American police officers. It did not come from our County sherriffs, our state troopers, nor our FBI; the brutal fact is it did not originate with Americans at all. In Clinton's Remarks at the DLC Gala in 1994, he called community policing "a DLC idea- we've been advocating it for years." For more background on the DLC see: http://nord.twu.net/acl/thirdway.html. Clinton was very clear about his communitarian vision for Amerika: "We believe American citizenship entails responsibilities as well as rights. And we mean to ask our citizens to give something back to their communities and their country. I believe that, and if you do, we've got a great future. (Applause.) Now, this is what I want to say to you: You have to decide what your mission is in this new world, because the truth is, we are already making a difference in the new Democratic Party. In the last two years, despite the atmosphere of contentiousness and all the difficulty, more of the DLC agenda was enacted into law and will make a difference in the lives of the American people than almost any political movement in any similar time period in the history of the United States. And you ought to be proud of that." Clinton created the President's Council on Sustainable Development (PCSD) in 1993, right after the Earth Summit at Rio. The PCSD commits the U.S. to the goals outlined in UN Local Agenda 21 (http://nord.twu.net/acl/agenda21.html).
5. "More than 160 professional community organizers work in the PICO National Network. PICO national staff includes experienced executive directors of PICO affiliates and other staff who work to support existing organizations and respond to requests from new efforts." (http://www.piconetwork.org/ab_staff.asp).
6. . "Local PICO federations provide leadership training for neighborhood residents and congregation members throughout the year using interactive and experiential adult education tools. Leaders learn how to build and sustain strong organizations, research and analyze community issues, develop budgets, plan for their communities and work with public officials to implement changes in public policy." (http://www.piconetwork.org/ab_training.asp)
9. I have hardcopies (obtained from the DOJ under the FOIA) of the Seattle application to be a pilot test city in the 2000 COMPASS program. Our NATS pilot test results were used as part of this application. See Dawson et al v The City of Seattle et al currently under consideration in the Ninth District Court of Appeals: (http://nord.twu.net/acl/dawson.html). I followed the Crime Mapping e-list for about a year. One time an Anchorage crime mapper explained the different methods between gathering data on urban rats as opposed to mapping country mice. (http://nord.twu.net/acl/COMPASS.html)
Niki Raapana is the co-founder of the Anti-Communitarian League (http://nord.twu.net/acl). She can be reached via email: anticommunitarian@hotmail.com.