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...complex modern society citizens need police to help them keep order; but in a healthy society the citizens, not the police, have the primary responsibility. A British M.P., Kenneth Pickthorn, expressed the principle in the 1930s, when a bill was placed before the House of Commons to give British policemen extraordinary powers in order to fight native fascists. "I think it was a governess, a butcher's boy and a curate," said Pickthorn, "who got in the way of a gunman after he committed a murder recently; and there was Mr. Fisk, the Battersea bricklayer, who seized a gunman...
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