Dear Friends,
It seems to me, something that’s going unseen but is vitally important, is the fact people, including law enforcement, are starting to ignore “laws.” In Arizona, the governor’s unconstitutional edict has been roundly ignored, opposed and vilified by law enforcement itself. For the absurd despotic action it is. In Illinois, the land of Lincoln, the unconstitutional gun “laws” are being ignored there as well. This is a brand new thing. Never before in my lifetime do I remember laws being ignored by the populace. Not simply surpassed, when law enforcement isn’t around, like a speed limit, but literally scoffed at. By law enforcement itself. This is a profound statement on the public’s opinion of our leaders, laws and their authority. How long before jury nullification becomes a thing? It shows abuse of authority has a cost.
Out of a sense of normalcy bias, people will go along, to get along, with absurdity from their government. That’s how hyperinflation, wars and a collapsing society come about. We go along because, let’s face it, who has time to protest, write letters and meet… other than the idle rich, people on the dole, and paid rioters? Most normal people, who’re connected to reality, have no time for these things. We have work to do… to keep ahead of the tax burden, inflation and stay in compliance with their ever growing regulations. As a result, the average person isn’t well informed about politics, and so, as Plato warned us… we are ruled by inept, immoral and unaccountable people. Yet we go along with the absurdity. Well apparently the absurdity has got too absurd and the people are starting to buck.
One of the reasons a society collapses, is because those who pass laws and regulations lack a feedback mechanism. The elite are insulated from the outcome of their ideas. Others pay the price while the elite get the benefit. So the state passes laws and regulations that are ever more disconnected from reality. Moreover, when its discovered that the laws they passed to solve a problem, make it worse, people will demand a new solution. That solution is always to pass another law that’ll make the problem worse. Adding more friction… making laws grow constantly in scope, reach and absurdity. The solution is never to remove the failing law and replace it with a social or cultural solution. Law grows ever more complex until, even a man well trained in law can’t understand them all… as Madison called Tyranny.
Today those laws and regulations are so obviously antithetical to our Constitution, it’s getting harder and harder to go along, to get along. They’re taking our guns away? By executive fiat in Arizona. Meanwhile Illinois has made gun registration mandatory. These are laws that are so patently unconstitutional, even law enforcement can’t abide them. Even as the federal government cuts the razor wire on our southern boarder and welds the gates open, opening our society to terrorism by foreigners, our government calls for us to beware of Islamophobia. Then, in the next breath, claim right wing pro constitutional extremism is the nation’s greatest threat? The crazy elite have discredited themselves and now the establishment they’ve abused for so long. So much so they’ve made cops scofflaws.
Abuse of authority has a cost. People will go along for awhile, until things get too bad. Inflation gets out of hand, crime, disease and wars become overwhelming issues… and the elite pass laws that make no sense whatsoever. That’s when people will recognize the elite for what they are, as crooked as a horseshoe. We’re seeing the results of decades of abuse of authority starting to play out. As the state’s storm troops, BLM and ANTIFA waged war on us. The apparatus of law enforcement was used to frame innocents to forward a political narrative. Yes, people are waking up to the abuse of power our elites are engaged in… and we’re not going along anymore. Our elites burned the document that gave them authority and so have none. So treat them with the contempt they’ve earned.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
