Dear Friends,
It seems to me, law represents the will of the state, not the will of the people. There are two ways law can be used by the state. It can be a mechanism to keep societal friction to a minimum, else it can be a tool of societal control. It cannot be both, since they are mutually exclusive options, it has to be one or the other. You can tell if law is being used as a tool of suppression, or a tool of equality, by how it is applied, the laws themselves, and how they are made. In the US today, we have a system that enforces law depending on political affiliation, the law has become so complex no one, even a trained attorney, can understand it, and it is made by unelected bureaucrats. The state claims law represents the people’s will, even as government uses law to wage war against us, our interests and our posterity.
A man recently shot a woman in the back on a public street. Thank God she lived. He was fined over $347.00 and public service… for attempted murder. Had you or I simply had the firearm we would have gone to prison in that anti gun city. He had one, and attempted to murder an innocent woman with it, and a shoplifter is punished more severely. There is more to that story, I can hear you think, and there is. She was praying outside an abortion clinic and handing out pro life literature. The man became incensed that she had the audacity to try to starve Moloch, so he shot her. The courts must have thought he was largely justified, in his attempted murder, so didn’t punish him. Instead, the DOJ sent swat teams to pro life citizen’s homes, in early morning raids… to send them a message.
Madison said, in the Federalist Papers, that if the law ever becomes so complex that a trained lawyer cannot understand them, that is the definition of tyranny. By that standard the US fell into tyranny sometime in the mid twentieth century. Attorneys specialize today, because only a specialist can give a client effective representation in the Gordian knot of laws, regulations and bureaucratic fiefdoms. As they specialize, the price goes up and up, keeping the poor from being able to buy a lawyer and driving up their wage. So attorneys have an economic interest in increasing the laws, making them more arcane and irrational. The more insane the law is, the more money lawyers make, and since most legislators are lawyers… law grows more esoteric (disconnected from reality) by the day.
While the legislators have an interest in making laws as fast as possible, to force everyone to need a lawyer for every interaction, the legislative process is just too inefficient. That’s why the legislature delegated their power to make law to the Executive Branch, in the form of the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy has thousands of highly paid bureaucrats, sitting in cubicles all day doing nothing but writing regulations, to limit us hoi polloi. They create more regulations, laws, in a day then a legislature could in a decade. What efficiency! Now that the administrative state has taken over the lawmaking process, the legislatures can get down to business, and hold hearings, grandstand and politic, effectively doing nothing. Proving again, they don’t represent us, they resent us.
When was the last time you had any input on how a law was made? The bureaucracy abandoned the citizen input part of the procedure years ago. It slowed the process of oppression down. If you testify before congress, you might as well be talking to a rug, except a rug has more character. Jan 6 protesters went to prison without bail or trial while Antifa arsonists get out of jail free. Judging by the way law is made, enforced and is so complex it can mean anything a judge deems it to, and will mean something else tomorrow, depending on the political affiliation of the defendant… law is not the manifestation of the will of the people, it is the manifestation of the will of the lawmakers, the elites. Law has become a tool of social control, not societal cohesion, made by the elite, for the elites… not for us.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
