Crime Isn't The Problem

Crime is a symptom, not a problem. This would be an obvious truth if it weren't for the tens of millions of people who have invested their lives in the “blood letting” of society. Like the so-called healers of old, they have a vested interested in keeping people ignorant of the truth and an even stronger reason for lying to themselves. If the truth were generally known, that all their efforts are all for show, and any effects they have are purely incidental, then they would be exposed for the charlatans they are. And even worse, for exacerbating the problem while pretending to cure the symptom!
The problem is age old, but that does not mean it cannot be solved. The solution is as old as the problem itself, and every great book of truth has expounded on the solution, from the Holy Bible to the Buddhist sutras, for thousands of years.
I myself have been writing about it non-stop since I stopped killing and turned myself in. This blog is centered around it. And life itself proclaimes it loudly, for those prepared to hear.
The problem is fear, the solution is faith.
The problem is isolation from the source of our existence (which begets fear), and the solution is returning to the source (which requires faith alone).
You don't need to believe in God, or Buddha, or even science to realize this truth. You have only to be honest, with yourself. The more honest you are, the more self evident this truth will be, and the less fear you will have, and the less suffering you will bring into the world.
But being honest with yourself is the hardest thing you will ever do. If it is not hard for you to be honest, then you are either still deceived – and bringing suffering into the world, even if you yourself do not realize it – or, you are an enlightened being, at one with the source of all things. Which is to say, that becoming honest is the hardest thing you will ever do, but being honest is the easiest! Or, as I've written before, the “easy yoke to bear”, is the hardest one to don.
Any observer can note that our present social system, especially the so-called “Justice System”, does everything it can to support and promote the illusion of isolation from the source of our being. It fosters and advocates an “Us-Them” mentality that denies the oneness and unity of all things.
It is easier to pretend we are better than someone else, and blame “them” for our problems (our suffering) than to take responsibility for our own actions – which is the only real “authority” anyone has! When a man robs or assaults another man, the present social system literally demands that the “victim” report the “crime” and cooperate with the “authorities” in the “persuit of justice”. But no one ever expects the “victim” to take responsibility for the “crime”, perhaps by admitting that he should not have been flaunting his gold jewelery in front of young drug addicts (and what was he doing with gold jewelery in the first place, while there are starving people in the world he could have given a job to instead of buying “shiny metal” status symbols to wear?).
It was easier for me to accuse the police of being self-righteous cowards that ignorantly drove me to commit my crimes, than for me to admit that I need the police (as human beings) and that I myself was responsible for their self-righteous attitudes by acting so cowardly myself by attacking children in order to hurt “Them”.
That is until I saw through the eyes of my last intended victim that she was me, and they were too! I saw this truth as plainly as I saw her. Even now it is hard for me to fathom how I had been so blind! But, the reason for my blindness is just as plain at the same time; Fear.
I was terrified because I believed the system's lies; that I was alone in the world, and would die alone, and forever. But when I finally saw the Truth – the same Truth that all the ancients talk about, and that modern science even confirms – that I was not alone, and that I would never die! Then I no longer had a reason to hurt “them”, because I knew that they were me! And crime, for me at least, lost it's meaning.

“The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinions merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system.”
“...Whether it wants to or not, the (System) consodilates and establishes injustice. It helps men to forget their ills instead of curing them.” - Raymond Aron, French political philosopher

“We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread; Than climb the cross of the moment; And let our illusions die.” - W. H. Auden (1907-1973) American poet

“There is no such thing as the State, And no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice, To the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.” - W. H. Auden