Jump straight to you favourite article! The Pinocchio Files - home NEW!!! Do the Pinocchio Lie Test! About the Pinocchio Files Search in the Pinocchio Files Interesting Links & Web Site Contest Police Files: ________________________... The Burden of Truth Interpreting Answers in Interrogation How to Nail a Pervert The Bullshit Detection Method The Bible never Lies ! Police Art Gallery Gift Ideas for Law Officers Science Files: _______________________... Freud is a Fraud ! Revealing Body Language The Secrets of Reverse Speech Testosterone: They Can't Help It Tip: Paralinguistic Communication Sex, Lies & Feminism Why People Lie Contribute !: ________________________... Please Sign our Guest Book View our Guest Book Submit your article Report a Bogus Web Site! Apply for our Long Nose Award THE SORES OF CRIME 4 Pages - Page 2 Little criminals There will be some point, probably in grammar school, where this child will want something, but it doesn't belong to him. He is going to have to decide: "Take it or not?" He takes it, telling himself "everybody steals" - an idea he most likely got from one of his friends who is also a thief. And now he has accepted the idea that it is okay to steal. Once this child becomes older, he is aware of what is going on in our government and in society in general. Having long since abandoned honesty and rationality, this youngster continues to act on whim. Now, he comes to a crossroads in his life: he sees some affluent-looking woman and wants the money in her purse. To get it, he is going to have to cross over a threshold: he is going to have to initiate force, for the first time in his life, against the woman. Where is he going to get his justification, his rationalization, who or what will tell him that it is okay to initiate force against this woman? Initiate force? Hmm... initiate force... now just where in the world would he get such an idea? Does something sound familiar here? Where has this youngster seen and heard this idea before? Who are the proponents of such a notion? You got it, statism, statist politicians and their agents and the liberal statists in the media and his statist teachers in school, all of whom have taught this youngster it is right for an individual to initiate force against another.   Assist, Protect & Defend against Statism For this youngster, it is a very short leap to the rationalization that it is okay for him to assault this woman because, he will say to himself, our own government uses force against people all of the time - or, maybe he has seen the stories in the news about the state seizing the property of innocent individuals and, he says to himself, if they can do it, why can't I do it? All he needs is to remember Clinton's admonition he must not fend for himself: if he mustn't fend for himself, then he has a "right" to this rich woman's money - and if he has a "right" to it, then what is wrong with forcibly taking it from her? In principle, this is the pattern of development that takes place when a child transforms himself into a criminal. Depending on the person, the rationalizations can be varied, there may be starts and stops on the way, with some stopping short of physical assault because they don't have the stomach for it, opting instead to simply become a con artist or a shoplifter or a politician. But the example of our youngster who assaults a woman provides the pattern of the development of a criminal's mind. It is not necessary to understand all of the psychological nuances of the birth and development of the criminal mind, you only need to understand there are three critical ingredients in creating a criminal: rationalization (which means: lying to himself), acting on whim and the ideas he has accepted. Thugs and hoodlums will be dealt with accordingly   Once a young person accepts the notion that it is proper to initiate force against an individual and he wishes to personally engage in its initiation, in a statist society such as we have today, he has two career choices: become a criminal, as our youngster chose -or- become a statist politician (or, one of his employees or supporters). The child who chooses to become a criminal is usually not very intelligent, uneducated, not bothered by the crudities of physical violence, may be a loner of sorts, likely envies and resents the more intelligent and some live in a fantasy world in which they dream of being famous for some hideous crime they will commit in the future. The child who chooses to become a statist politician (or one of his employees) is usually intelligent, educated, is too squeamish to personally inflict force on another and is afraid of the physical dangers to himself which may come with a criminal's use of force, is gregarious and dreams of being famous and secretly envies and resents those who earn an honest living by being productive. Both children only live to rule others.