Law

Greetings good citizen, without justice we are nothing more than microbes on a Petri dish, with the strong overwhelming the weak and predation being the rule rather than the exception.

Where does Law fit into this puzzle? Why bother with laws at all if it doesn't balance out the 'natural process'?

You needn't look too hard to find those who profess their ardent belief that the strong will survive and the weak not only will perish but should perish.

Problem is it's never about 'strong or weak', it's about NUMBERS.

Zero irony that stupid weighs heavily in our conception of what constitutes 'strong' and who is perceived as 'weak'.

Looks are definitely deceiving.

But I digress, albeit only a little.

Those who, er, imagined themselves to be 'strong' quickly realized that they were hopelessly OUTNUMBERED. The 'weak' would crush them because the 'weak' wouldn't just stand there and bleat at them like the 'weak-minded' imagined they would, they'd fight back.

So once again perception kicked in and laws were created to save the guilty from instantaneous judgement.

And what do you know, the 'strong' quickly seized control of the law and began meting out their own brand of 'justice'.

[Or at least that's what they call it, it's not their fault that you don't see it their way.] They stole the process, fair and square!

That's why a 'jury of your peers' is nothing more than an ugly rumor.

If you were held accountable by people who KNOW you [not necessarily LIKE you but 'know' you] you'd stand a chance of seeing 'justice'.

The current court system isn't about justice but 'appearances'. The officers of the court feel compelled to 'look like' they are doing something regardless of who gets, er, 'mangled'.

There's a bit of truth nobody seems interested in dealing with. More the pity.

If law [as it is practiced] is a charade, an act then why do we permit ourselves to be 'cowed' by those claiming to be 'agents of the Law'? [Wearing a badge is a sickness that has nothing to do with 'serving the public'.]

They are the ONLY ONES who take themselves seriously, everybody else knows it's an act but it is here the situation collides with the individual vs the criminal mob that can't afford to be exposed as the frauds they are.

The 'concept' of justice through law is INTENDED to level the playing field by making all members of society accountable yet LAWMAKERS in particular have regularly exempted themselves from prosecution via the power of their office.

For justice to exist it must be placed 'beyond the reach' of 'the self-serving'...[jury of your peers anyone?] (You can fool strangers but you can't fool the people you live and work with) Not that allowing a sibling or a relative to sit in judgement of you would be 'kosher'. The closest a juror can be to a defendant is a co-worker, the defendant can bounce former lovers if they feel their history would compromise the judgement of such a juror.

But wait, the other safeguard comes from the elimination of 'lawmakers'. Not only would it be illegal to create laws by fiat [because I said so] but to exempt oneself from prosecution for ANY reason!

Justice means you are responsible for your actions, regardless.

'Lawmakers' take themselves too literally. No such being exists.

For the laws to be 'just' the governed must agree to them...not just some of them but ALL of them. [This is why the laws will be simple and few.] Humans don't need a lot of laws considering most of us are ignorant of the law once it departs from the Ten Commandments and we manage alright.

Did you know that for every legal precedent there is a corresponding one that went the opposite way?

This is not a matter of 'chapter & verse' but one of 'the law is what we say it is, nothing more and nothing less'.

Don't have to be e genius to see that this situation has nothing to do with 'justice'.

So there you have it.

The Law has NOTHING to do with Justice.

Where does that leave YOU?

Nice knowing ya, Head

Gegner