The Police Aren’t Legally Obligated To Protect You

Without even thinking about it, we take it as a given that the police must protect each of us.
That’s their whole reason for existence, right?
While this might be true in a few jurisdictions in the US and Canada, it is actually the exception, not the rule. In general, court decisions and state laws have held that cops don’t have to do a thing to help you when you’re in danger.

In the only book devoted exclusively to the subject, Dial 911 and Die, attorney Richard W. Stevens writes:

Many Of The Pioneering Feminists Opposed Abortion

The idea that feminism equals the right to an abortion has become so ingrained that it -.iiems ludicrous to think otherwise. “Prolife feminism” appears to be an inherent contradiction in terms. Yet more than 20 founding mothers of the feminist movement who helped secure women’s rights to vote, to own property, to use contraception, to divorce abusive husbands were adamantly opposed to abortion.
The most famous nineteenth-century feminist Susan B. Anthony, she of the ill-fated dollar coin referred to abortion as “the horrible crime of child-murder.” And that’s just for starters. She also called it “infanticide,” “this most monstrous crime,” “evil,” and a “dreadful deed.” Surprisingly, given that unsparing language, she didn’t believe that it should be made illegal.

The Virginia Colonists Practiced Cannibalism

During the harsh winter of 1609-1610, British subjects in the famous colony of Jamestown, Virginia, ate their dead and their shit. This fact doesn’t make it into very many US history textbooks, and the state’s official Website apparently forgot to mention it in their history section.

When you think about it rationally, this fact should be a part of mainstream history. After all, it demonstrates the strong will to survive among the colonists. It shows the mind-boggling hardships they endured and overcame. Yet the taboo against eating these two items is so over-powering that this episode can’t be mentioned in conventional history.

Around One Quarter Of “WITCHES” Were Men

witches The word “witch” has become synonymous with “woman accused of working magic,” and the consensus tells us that the witch trials in Europe and Colonial America were simply a war against women (ie, “gendercide”). Most popular works on the subject ignore the men who were accused and executed for supp-osedly practicing witchcraft. Academic works that don’t omit male witches usually explain them away, as if they were just a few special cases that don’t really count.
Into this gap step Andrew Gow, an associate professor of history at the University of Alberta, and one of his grad students, Lara Apps. Their book Male Witches in Early Modern Europe scours the literature and finds that, of the 110,000 people tried for witchcraft and the 60,000 executed from 1450 to 1750, some-where between 20 to 25 percent were men.

This is an average across Europe, the British Isles, and the American Colonies; the gender ratios vary widely from place to place. The lowest percentages of males were persecuted in the Basel region of Switzerland (5 percent) and in Hungary (10 percent). Places that hovered around the 50/50 mark were Finland (49 percent) and Burgundy (52 percent). Men were the clear majority of “witches” in Estonia (60 percent) and Norway (73 percent).

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