Rule of Law, or not

Another great one at Sultan Knish. Read the whole thing. Here are some snippets.

Saturday, June 23, 2012

A Lawless Society

A Bill of Rights drafted today would look very different than it did back then.... The entire thing would run a few thousand pages and would be filled with all sorts of escape clauses, which when added together would render the whole thing meaningless.

That is the essence of a lawless society, which is to say that there are oodles and oodles of law, but it's merely a complicated way for those in power to enforce their will on others. If you want to force people to do something, all you need to do is study enough clauses, lay out your reasoning and it's done.

The United States has drifted into lawlessness, into laws that are the guns of government. Want to force everyone to buy health insurance? Pass a law. Ignore any questions of legality because legality doesn't matter. If people come out to protest, send out your SEIU thugs to beat them. If you lose your Senate majority, use Reconciliation to pass it. If the Supreme Court threatens to investigate the Constitutionality of the law, threaten the Court.

Rights become entirely positive and empathy based. 

And often those who excel at marketing their suffering aren't suffering at all, while those who are genuinely suffering remain silent. Empathy-based law commodifies pain, but it's empty of justice.

The government-media complex acts out the empathy narrative. Its reporting has nothing to do with the facts, but everything to do with emotion.

Law is impartial. It states absolute principles that apply regardless of faction and position. But in a lawless society, there is no law, only power. The left has ushered in a lawless society, but we will all have to live with the consequences.

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And what happens, in general, when a society's economy collapses?

And what happens, in general, when a society's Rule of Law collapses?

Think

Act

Prepare

Train