The Rule of Law
What should we do when the "rule of law" becomes a primary means of our oppression?
What do you do when the ratio between “what is right” and “what is lawful” gets increasingly, horribly out of whack?
The way Congress and SCOTUS and, too often, even POTUS act these days, “freedom” and “rights”—let alone “what is right”—are rarely the primary considerations.
When court decisions overwhelmingly go only one way—in favor of the statists and collectivists—when Congress votes us deeper into slavery and debt, when agencies adopt the same style of arrogant, oppressive nanny-ism that came before, when politicians and their flunkies promise to do X or Y or Z, then ignore those hard, meaningful pledges and focus on the “easy,” largely pointless actions, what are we do do?
If we had a principled president who truly understood liberty—someone close to Argentina’s Milei—I would say, “Slash and burn! While you can!” Cut every unconstitutional agency and employee and policy. Unilaterally nullify every anti-freedom “law” and ignore the howling protests from those whose past behavior puts a lie to their complaints.
And then purge the Constitution of what still hinders freedom, rights, and the proper framework for morality.
Let the bodies figuratively fall where they may. Let God sort them out later.
And, yeah, yeah. “Rule of law!”
In a mostly free society, that would definitely be a worry. But while we are certainly drowning in “laws,” what we have today with a blizzard of unprincipled, arbitrary, irrational court rulings and “laws” is the OPPOSITE of the ACTUAL “rule of law.”
What is killing us are “laws” that violate our rights rather than defend them. What is smothering us are court rulings that reveal the “rule of men” rather than the “rule of law.” What is undermining us is a president who is 50-50, at best, in REALLY defending freedom.
Sure, the current president COULD take this approach with many of these issues. But I am pretty confident that he has little grasp of the meaning of rights and freedom and nowhere near the will to do much beyond a few of his pet projects.
Without drastic action—steps that focus on fundamentals rather than mostly window-dressing—we are doomed.
We desperately need another “shot heard ’round the world.”
The men at Lexington and Concord were primarily concerned with freedom and their rights as men. What they were doing was definitely illegal. They didn’t care.
There comes a point in history and human affairs, when you have to declare, “Screw the ‘rule of law.’” and fight for what is right.
We are slouching uncomfortably close to needing to declare that, “That time is now…”
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