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No Law

In those days Israel had no king; all the people did whatever seemed right in their own eyes.

Judges 21:25

 

 

The “secret” meeting between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch underlines something that most Americans believe:  there is one law for the connected and another law for the rest of us.  That is a brief way of saying that there is no law if by law we mean rules that all of us are required to live by.  Attorney Kurt Schlichter at Townhall explains what all this means:

The law mattered. It applied equally to everyone. We demanded that it did, all of us – politicians, the media, and regular citizens. Oh, there were mistakes and miscarriages of justice but they weren’t common and they weren’t celebrated – they were universally reviled. And, more importantly, they weren’t part and parcel of the ideology of one particular party. There was once a time where you could imagine a Democrat scandal where the media actually called for the head of the Democrat instead of deploying to cover it up.

People assumed that the law mattered, that the same rules applied to everyone. That duly enacted laws would be enforced equally until repealed. That the Constitution set the foundation and that its guarantees would be honored even if we disliked the result in a particular case. But that’s not our country today.

The idea of the rule of law today is a lie. There is no law. There is no justice. There are only lies.

Hillary Clinton is manifestly guilty of multiple felonies. Her fans deny it half-heartedly, but mostly out of habit – in the end, it’s fine with them if she’s a felon. They don’t care. It’s just some law. What’s the big deal? It doesn’t matter that anyone else would be in jail right now for doing a fraction of what she did. But the law is not important. Justice is not important.

The attorney general secretly canoodles with the husband of the subject of criminal investigation by her own department and the president, the enforcer of our laws, shrugs. The media, the challenger of the powerful, smirks. They rub our noses in their contempt for the law. And by doing so, demonstrate their contempt for us.

Only power matters, and Hillary stands ready to accumulate more power on their behalf so their oaths, their alleged principles, their duty to the country – all of it goes out the window. But it’s much worse than just one scandal that seems not to scandalize anyone in the elite. Just read the Declaration of Independence – it’s almost like those dead white Christian male proto-NRA members foresaw and cataloged the myriad oppressions of liberalism’s current junior varsity tyranny.

There is one law for them, and another for us. Sanctuary cities? Obama’s immigration orders? If you conservatives can play by the rules and pass your laws, then we liberals will just not enforce them. You don’t get the benefit of the laws you like. We get the benefit of the ones we do, though. Not you. Too bad, rubes.

So if you are still obeying the law when you don’t absolutely have to, when there isn’t some government enforcer with a gun lurking right there to make you, aren’t you kind of a sucker?

Go here to read the rest.  By their conduct the left, and their auxiliaries in academia, the media and entertainment, have been teaching their adversaries for the past half century that rules and laws are for fools and that power is all that matters.  Donald Trump is proof that this message has gotten through.  He will be bound by no code of conduct or rules and he will attempt to win at all costs.  That he is a Democrat in skimpy Republican disguise is ironic and telling.  Schlichter ends his essay with these chilling words:

 

There used to be a social contract requiring that our government treat us all equally within the scope of the Constitution and defend us, and in return we would recognize the legitimacy of its laws and defend it when in need. But that contract has been breached. We are not all equal before the law. Our constitutional rights are not being upheld. We are not being defended – hell, we normals get blamed every time some Seventh Century savage goes on a kill spree. Yet we’re still supposed to keep going along as if everything is cool, obeying the law, subsidizing the elite with our taxes, taking their abuse. We’ve been evicted by the landlord but he still wants us to pay him rent.

Now it seems we actually have a new social contract – do what we say and don’t resist, and in return we’ll abuse you, lie about you, take your money, and look down upon you in contempt. What a bargain!

It’s not a social contract anymore – American society today is a suicide pact we never agreed to and yet we’re expected to go first.

I say “No.”

We owe them nothing – not respect, not loyalty, not obedience. Nothing.

We make it easy for them by going along. We make it simple by defaulting to the old rules. But there are no rules anymore, certainly none that morally bind us once we are outside the presence of some government worker with a gun to force our compliance. There is only will and power and we must rediscover our own. If there is no cop sitting right there, then there is nothing to make you stop at that stop sign tonight.

They don’t realize that by rejecting the rule of law, they have set us free. We are independent. We owe them nothing – not respect, not loyalty, not obedience. But with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we will still mutually pledge those who have earned our loyalty with their adherence to the rule of law, our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.

As in war so in politics:  one side will not forever obey rules that the other side laughs at.  The left is about to be confronted by a right that has finally learned the lessons the left has been now screaming for generations.  Our poor country.

 

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The Christian Teacher
The Christian Teacher
Tuesday, July 5, AD 2016 7:39am

Agreed!!

Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Tuesday, July 5, AD 2016 9:13am

It is coming to the point where we will have to give the same respons ethat Mattathias gave in 1st Maccabees chapter 2. That is regrettable and it would be best to avoid such a scenario. But the liberal progressive Democrats and RINOs will not have it any other way. May God have mercy on us all, for there is still time to repent.
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15 Then the king’s officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Mo′de-in to make them offer sacrifice. 16 Many from Israel came to them; and Mattathi′as and his sons were assembled. 17 Then the king’s officers spoke to Mattathi′as as follows: “You are a leader, honored and great in this city, and supported by sons and brothers. 18 Now be the first to come and do what the king commands, as all the Gentiles and the men of Judah and those that are left in Jerusalem have done. Then you and your sons will be numbered among the friends of the king, and you and your sons will be honored with silver and gold and many gifts.”
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19 But Mattathi′as answered and said in a loud voice: “Even if all the nations that live under the rule of the king obey him, and have chosen to do his commandments, departing each one from the religion of his fathers, 20 yet I and my sons and my brothers will live by the covenant of our fathers. 21 Far be it from us to desert the law and the ordinances. 22 We will not obey the king’s words by turning aside from our religion to the right hand or to the left.”
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23 When he had finished speaking these words, a Jew came forward in the sight of all to offer sacrifice upon the altar in Mo′de-in, according to the king’s command. 24 When Mattathi′as saw it, be burned with zeal and his heart was stirred. He gave vent to righteous anger; he ran and killed him upon the altar. 25 At the same time he killed the king’s officer who was forcing them to sacrifice, and he tore down the altar. 26 Thus he burned with zeal for the law, as Phin′ehas did against Zimri the son of Salu.
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27 Then Mattathi′as cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: “Let every one who is zealous for the law and supports the covenant come out with me!” 28 And he and his sons fled to the hills and left all that they had in the city.
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29 Then many who were seeking righteousness and justice went down to the wilderness to dwell there, 30 they, their sons, their wives, and their cattle, because evils pressed heavily upon them. 31 And it was reported to the king’s officers, and to the troops in Jerusalem the city of David, that men who had rejected the king’s command had gone down to the hiding places in the wilderness. 32 Many pursued them, and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the sabbath day. 33 And they said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live.” 34 But they said, “We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the sabbath day.” 35 Then the enemy[c] hastened to attack them. 36 But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places, 37 for they said, “Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly.” 38 So they attacked them on the sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.
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39 When Mattathi′as and his friends learned of it, they mourned for them deeply. 40 And each said to his neighbor: “If we all do as our brethren have done and refuse to fight with the Gentiles for our lives and for our ordinances, they will quickly destroy us from the earth.” 41 So they made this decision that day: “Let us fight against every man who comes to attack us on the sabbath day; let us not all die as our brethren died in their hiding places.”

Greg Mockeridge
Greg Mockeridge
Tuesday, July 5, AD 2016 12:53pm

“…and their auxiliaries in academia, the media and entertainment,” Um, Don, you forgot one group: the clergy.

Philip
Philip
Tuesday, July 5, AD 2016 1:58pm

“What a bargain!”

And it’s just beginning.
Blue light special…. K-Mart shoppers… includes FBI non-stick spray. Works great on those tough e-mail stains. They just disappear as if they never existed.

Can’t wait for the next crime the Beast will get away with.

Brian
Brian
Wednesday, July 6, AD 2016 5:17am

You ably summarized the fatal flaw of Trump. And it is summarized in the case made for his election by his supporters; including some very fine people indeed.

He is no different than Hillary n this important respect: he cares not an ounce for the Constitution and the rule of law and the “little people” for whom the rule of law is most designed to protect.. He cares about power. He cares about the interests of the powerful; most especially the interests of himself and his cronies.

He is no different. The urge of conservatives to elect this man is the urge to play the game of the lawless liberal hordes. But this time to get some for ourselves.

I want no part of it. He is manifestly not the answer to what ails us. He is a fuller manifestation of the disease; the other side of its coin.

The RULE OF LAW is all that matters right now. POLICY is irrelevant as our nation dies under LAWLESSNESS. I’m with Thomas More on is one. Along with everything that implies.

Just me
Just me
Wednesday, July 6, AD 2016 10:23am

Brian, what is it that you plan to do to fight lawlessness and protect the rule of law? Trump may not be a Reagan but he’s not a Clinton either.

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