so, i came home tonight to a failed attempt to cut the lock on my bicycle storage space. this area is behind a pass code; the suspects are entirely internal, and really relegated solely to the guy with the a/c.

this person has now opened my mail, entered my apartment illegally and tried to cut the lock on my storage space. and, the property owner is just telling me to call the cops.

i'm an anarchist; i have no use for policing. what is a cop going to do? write a report and hand out a warning? make him pay a fine to the queen? what's the use in that?

civil liability is much more useful. this is the great benefit of tort law: it converts liability out of a social contract with the state and into a social contract between human beings. if he is to be found guilty of something, i should be the benefactor, not the government.

i've been over this before: we should abolish criminal law and replace it with tort law. all liability should flow between individuals.

and, conservatives can go shove their precious tort reform up their collective asses.

...but what i really want is neither criminal nor civil proceedings. what i want is for the property owner to law down some rules and enforce them - i want people to stop opening my mail and stop trying to cut my locks. sadly, it's becoming increasingly clear that this isn't going to happen without enforcing very hefty punitive damages.