Jehovah Witnesses vs Marxism on Divisive Politics and Dissent

***EXCLUSIVE TO RUMBLE***

I review that JW.org article "Why Is Politics So Divisive?—What Does the Bible Say?"

(https://www.jw.org/en/library/series/more-topics/why-politics-so-divisive-bible-say/)

*** Political & Para-Political Dissent:

"Dissent: An unwillingness to cooperate with an established source of authority, which can be social, cultural, or governmental."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/dissent-political

*Para-Political refers to non political phenomena which has political consequences.

The Greek POLIS: https://www.worldhistory.org/Polis/

"IN PRACTICE, WHATEVER THE POLITICAL SYSTEM ADOPTED, POLITICAL POWER WAS DOMINATED BY A FEW ARISTOCRATIC FAMILIES."

Corruption & Political Neutrality (JW.ORG)
https://youtu.be/K-NXRLAt4dA

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As a tangient, I briefly discuss my understanding of the origins of the Police as a State entity in the Roman Empire.

Mary Beard is the expert on Roman History whose work I have studied.

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome. Mary Beard,
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28789711-spqr

Religions of Rome, Volume 1: A History. Mary Beard. John North. Simon Price.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167946.Religions_of_Rome_Volume_1

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/167945.Religions_of_Rome_Volume_2

*** Other perspectives on the History of The Police in the Western world:

"In 7 BCE Augustus divided the city of Rome into 14 regiones (wards), each consisting of vici (precincts) overseen by vicomagistri, who were responsible for fire protection and other administrative and religious duties. In 6 CE, after a particularly bad fire, Augustus expanded the city’s fire brigade into a corps of vigiles (firefighters and watchmen), consisting of seven squads, or cohorts, of 1,000 freedmen each. Each cohort was responsible for fire and, especially at night, police protection in two regiones. As a further measure to impose order on the often violent streets of Rome—a city of nearly one million people—Augustus created three cohorts of police, which were part of the army of the state and were placed under the command of the urban prefect. Those cohorts could, in turn, call upon the emperor’s own bodyguard (the Praetorian Guard) for assistance."

https://www.britannica.com/topic/police/The-history-of-policing-in-the-West

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"The origins of modern-day policing can be traced back to the "Slave Patrol." The earliest formal slave patrol was created in the Carolinas in the early 1700s with one mission: to establish a system of terror and squash slave uprisings with the capacity to pursue, apprehend, and return runaway slaves to their owners. Tactics included the use of excessive force to control and produce desired slave behavior."

https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/origins-modern-day-policing

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The Invention of the Police

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police

"To police is to maintain law and order, but the word derives from polis—the Greek for “city,” or “polity”—by way of politia, the Latin for “citizenship,” and it entered English from the Middle French police, which meant not constables but government. “The police,” as a civil force charged with deterring crime, came to the United States from England and is generally associated with monarchy—“keeping the king’s peace”—which makes it surprising that, in the antimonarchical United States, it got so big, so fast. The reason is, mainly, slavery."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police