Here's something not too many people know. Back in the mid 1980s, I was
accepted to a couple of graduate school law programs. I never really
told anyone because I decided I didn't want to go. Or rather I told
myself that life had decided for me and that I couldn't afford to go.
There have been times in my life when I have wondered how things would
have turned out for me had I gone. Perhaps my life would have been
better, perhaps not. I wonder if I would have let knowledge of the law
corrupt me, as it seems to have done to so many others. I wonder if I
would have let knowledge of this secretive and highly influential
language taint my world view, or if I would have somehow managed to
remain true to my morals and principles despite subjecting myself to the
poisonous rot that passes itself off as law these days.
As it stands today, I have the clarity of hindsight to base my thoughts
upon. I think that perhaps I have a better understanding of the law than
many current day lawyers. At least I don't have the burden of knowing
that I need the masses of people to not understand the nuances of law in
order to make a living. I believe, as do many others, that the law
should be written in plain English, or whatever language the masses
understand, so that everyone understands it, not just a few who can then
manipulate the language to their benefit. I believe we should do away
with this language known as legalese which has a tendency to take common
words and change their meaning for uncommon purposes.
The law should be simple. You don't harm others. You don't steal from
others. Things like that. Of course there's going to be extenuating
circumstances that might come about from time to time and these things
should be considered, but the basics remain simple. So many people seem
to worship this thing we call "the law" that it almost seems spiritual
in nature. Yet spirit can be evil as well as good. Spirit can be
detrimental as well as beneficial. There is a spirit behind these laws
and that spirit should be designed to provide justice for someone who
may be victimized by a powerful entity. The law ceases to be legitimate
when it becomes the powerful entity that is victimizing the common folk.
In today's society, it is not the spirit of a law that is enforced, but
the letter of the law. For instance, if a law says do not cross a street
except at the crosswalk or you will be fined, you could be fined even
if you had a legitimate reason for breaking that law such as trying to
avoid someone who means to cause you harm. We'd like to think that those
who enforce the law could use their discretion to understand when the
spirit of the law is being violated as opposed to the letter of the law,
but this is hardly ever the case. We'd like to think that judges and
juries would be able to do the same, but this is again hardly ever the
case. Enforcers enforce the letter of the law, no matter how much harm
that letter might do to another human being. Judges and juries only
judge guilt or innocence via interpreting the letter of the law, not
it's spirit.
The power of the law is its spirit. That power has been usurped due to
the desire for expedience and the laziness of the common folk. It has
been corrupted due to governmental greed and the desire of the ruling
class to control the masses. The justice system itself has become one
huge injustice, one huge miscarriage of justice, one huge revenue
generating mill that punishes the innocent by encouraging plea bargains
where they plead guilty to a lesser charge to avoid attorney costs and
jail time, protects the guilty in the same way, and upholds bad laws by
not allowing or encouraging juries to judge the law itself over and
above the defendant's guilt or innocence.
Today's laws are selectively enforced. They are often created by the
dictates of government agencies controlled by the executive branch
rather than through the conscientious debates of the legislative branch.
Those with political power or who are able to afford the cost of
political favors can oft times be excluded from the law while those
without who can't afford it must suffer the consequences of a law that
causes harm. Such is what we see in this huge 1600+ page monstrosity of a
law that is fallaciously entitled the "Affordable Care Act" and more
commonly known as Obamacare. It may have a well meaning spirit, but its
letter is malicious and malignant. It is the letter of this law that
will be enforced and as this happens its spirit vanishes into the ethers
as a dystopian society sprouts into being.
The federal government has attempted to shut down some of its more
innocuous aspects supposedly over the attempt to defund the
implementation of this bill. The executive branch has failed miserably
in its attempts to deny the public certain services (that should cost it
extremely little to no money to provide) and to point the finger of
blame at a certain political party. Many people now understand what this
is really all about and that closing national monuments and parks is no
way to go about solving this problem. It is my hope that those in the
political class who are making a stand against funding Obamacare will
take it one step further and repeal the entire law.
Yet I don't hold much hope that this will happen. There are powerful
interests that want this law implemented no matter the consequences. As
many have discovered and as I have said from the beginning it is the
insurance companies who benefit greatly from this law, not the common
folk. Think about it for a moment, how much better off would you be if
you could get the federal government to mandate that everyone had to own
the product or buy the service that you offer? With premiums going
through the roof and the government forcing all to either buy the
insurance or get fined, many will soon find that they will have much
less cash to spend on things like food, rent, gas for the car, clothes,
and other little necessities of life. Some may find they won't be able
to afford such luxuries as new shoes for their kids. Some may have to
leave their nicer homes in favor of more affordable abodes. Some may
find they just can't afford to be alive after they are fired or reduced
to part time labor all for the sake of a few insurance company
executives whose companies' profits needed to be boosted by law.
Someday this law may indeed go into effect, and it may be someday soon.
When this happens the people need to disobey. They need to simply not
sign up for the mandated insurance. They need to simply say "no." When
this happens they need to refuse to pay the fines. They need to,
whenever possible, dare the establishment to come arrest them. They need
to, in effect, grow a pair. When enough of the productive in society
are threatened by government, something has to give. When this happens,
it is my hope that the enforcers will side with the people who produce,
not with the criminal, parasitic government. Bad law should not be
enforced. When the letter of the law is harmful it should be judged
illegitimate. No law that does such harm should be implemented in a free
society, but if it is than it will be time for the people to stand and
push back against it.
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