Libertarian Rants

I’m tired of seeing these movies that attempt to justify and/or glorify crime. Earlier this year a kid was dragged from the back of a car by car-jackers to his death in Rio. Poverty exists all over the world, and in most places in far worse forms then in Rio. My dad’s family drew water from a well and slept 7 to a bed, but not one of them became crooks. It’s downright irresponsible to blame crime on poverty, but it’s obvious that crime continues to keep poverty levels high. Favelas have running water, sewage, schools, electricity, clinics, all amenities that you won’t find in slums in Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the rest of Latin America, yet crime is higher in the favelas of Rio than anywhere else.

It’s time to ask the questions that people are afraid to ask when it comes to crime, and no serious film-maker wants to do that, it doesn’t sell. The mayor of Rio recently quoted study in a book called ‘Freakonomics’ which showed that legalized abortion is the single most effective way to reduce crime. After this book was published, studies were done in India and Finland that showed the same results. There was a huge outcry against him, but there was also a lot of support. As long as religion dictates political Brazilian culture, there’s going to be crime. One of our biggest downfalls as a culture and our society is that we treat the criminal like a victim, and ignore the victim. This comes from the Catholic/socialist trend in thought so prevalent and destructive in our society.

It’s disgusting that these movies “expose” police violence but refuse to show that these criminals specifically target the families of police officers, often killing them or killing and kidnapping their children and spouses. Our problem is cultural, its endemic, but to make it seem like it’s environmental is intellectually dishonest and absurd.