The fewer the laws and the more clear and simple they are the less liberty is violated. All laws do violence to liberty, they are straight lines in a world where none exist. Both crime and the laws to deal with crime compromise liberty. When the laws do more violence to liberty than the crimes they prevent we have a dysfunctional government.
Today we have a government so dysfunctional we have laws written not to prevent crime but to create crime out of liberty itself.
“With liberty and justice for all” is an ideal better kept simple and imperfect. The only reason to improve justice is to enhance overall freedom. But we seek to perfect justice for it’s own sake freedom be damned.
Tyranny is justice thus perfected to the end the laws are repugnant not only to the ideals of freedom but to freedom in practice. The people have forgotten what government is supposed to be and what it is supposed to do.
Our modern quest for justice is not a noble quest. We seek to bring about less accountability and less responsibility by feeding on the fortune and freedom of our countrymen. A form of cannibalism of the spirit. A self deluding narcotic convincing us our safety and security is assured of only we as a people were not free.
All freedom is dangerous. Especially the freedom of others. Whenever a law is found lacking to intervene and prevent the least slight we enjoin our public servants to produce the remedy with yet another law. We are destroyed by laws. We destroy each other with laws. All injustice is intolerable and freedom is the first suspect in every crime real or invented.
It is an exercise in cowardice and petty power. Our public servants invite us to the feast of our neighbors. The laws they write are our forks and knives with which we carve out our share and ever more as we are able. We drink each other’s blood and devour each other’s flesh in an orgy of control. With unanimous consent we eagerly sacrifice our own liberty to take part in the consumption of America and her future.
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