Posted on 05/13/2016 2:00:28 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Our Declaration of Independence was not only illegal, it was an act of treason. Like today, most men in 1787 worldwide equated that which is legal with justice. Who could argue against the idea that justice is joined with statutory law?
Equate the legal with the just, and the law can be whatever presidents for life, oligarchs, or a majority say it is. Mankind can be fragmented into a welter of nations, each with its own morality. Might makes right. Justice is rendered relative among the nations of the world. Since there is no single standard of justice, all standards are equally dignified.
In his Closing of the American Mind, Humanities Professor Allan Bloom wrote thirty years ago that almost all of his students said they believed the truth was relative. No matter their backgrounds, they were unified in their relativism and subsequent allegiance to equality. This explains why modern Leftists are so enamored with “democracy,” with a majoritarianism expressed across our country under a single government that would work far better were it not for those pesky states.
Adherence to relativism and subsequent democratic equality precludes the use of one’s judgment, of one’s reason. From the relativist’s train of thought it is but a short intellectual walk to legal horrors like concentration camps, gulags, and killing fields. All of the 20th century terrors which murdered many tens of millions were established by statutes and were thus perfectly legal. To the relativist, they were also just.
Some intermediate steps to the Left’s logical endpoint in America can be heard when CA governor Jerry Brown recently criticized the $15/hour minimum wage bill he was about to sign. He ‘reasoned’ that while it would cost jobs, increase unemployment statewide, and swell the welfare rolls, it was still the moral thing to do! See, a majority of the CA legislature passed it. It is therefore legal and just.
Obamacare is a scourge to a once free people, yet because it was likewise passed by a majority of congress, it is regarded as not only legal, but also just. Ask the scotus.
Don’t like the Mexican and Muslim invasions? Who are you to judge these people as less than equal to Americans?
The relativistic Left denies reason. In denying reason it rejects our Declaration and the moral underpinnings of our Revolution. Yes, our revolution was illegal and treasonous, but because it comported with the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God, it was just!
As Paul Eidelberg wrote, “Let one generation after another be taught, in opposition to the Declaration, that reason is incapable of discovering universal truth or standards by which to determine whether one form of government is intrinsically superior to another, and the will and determination of that people to persevere in any cause involving death and destruction will be undermined.”
We see effects of the overthrow of reason all around. This overthrow will not end with Obama’s Mexican and Muslim invasions, homosexual marriage or gender-neutral bathrooms. The Left is never satiated.
What to do?
We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder of the American Republic. Join Convention of States. Sign the COS Petition.
References:
Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 1987. Book.
Eidelberg, Paul. On the Silence of the Declaration of Independence. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976. Book.
What to do?
We are the many; our oppressors are the few.
In my opinion this is a very worrisome statement.
I like a site that has both sides of the story below.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/485328658331556/permalink/495898397274582/
If this were taught in higher education, it would undermine the lawyer’s monopoly on all branches of government. This is about as likely as restricting lawyers to serve only in the judicial branch, never.
Agree that lawyers should only be allowed to serve in the judiciary and be constitutionally barred from holding any state of federal elective office (other that attorney general/district attorney or judge).
If a lawyer wants to seek an elective office other than attorney general/district attorney/judge, then they must surrender their law liscense prior to filing to run for that elective office.
Yes, it would certainly undermine their monopoly.
Thanks
I read an article years ago that postulated the all power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Truth is absolute.
One’s understanding and acceptance of truth is always relative.
I agree with that. From personal experience as a victim of civil law, I can definitely say the law has very little most of the time with justice. Lawyers know this. For them the Law is not a means to keeping a modern society safe, but a game for them to manipulate and abuse. The judiciary seems to approve of the abuse of the law, the waste of time in our courts over frivolous lawsuits, and perhaps it is because they are drawn from that same pool of lawyers. Anyone who thinks the Law is for the little person or the little known just need to experience so called “justice” themselves.
One of the reasons James Madison initially opposed a Bill of Rights is that in time it would come to be seen as the limit of our rights.
I only bring that up because absent a BOR, scotus would have been forced early on to rely on the Declaration's Laws of Nature and Nature's God as the standard for justice.
Yes, and things have gotten so bad that secular ‘social justice’ is fast worming its way through our legal system.
Any adjective before ‘justice’ means it has nothing to do with justice.
That noted, thank you for your well-presented perspective.
One’s understanding and acceptance of truth is always relative.
I disagree. Only God is truth, and God in the flesh is Christ Jesus only. The world is evil and mankind is full of deadly evil, most especially those who call evil good and good evil and believe the lie that man is basically good. Mankind, all of mankind including men, women and children, are all together evil from their birth and grow worse if they refuse the truth of God in the person of Jesus Christ, who will return to capture the earth from Satan and his foolish minions of the earth. Men like Obama and Ryan, Hillary and Pelosi, McConnell and Reed, are but examples of such evil men who choose to destroy their fellow man using the lies of men.
In that case, they had a very good political reason. Since union contracts are often tied to the minimum wage, raising it meant an automatic increase for the Democrats' most ardent supporters. And an automatic increase in their own political contributions.
Whether actual minimum wage workers benefitted really doesn't matter to Democrat leaders - they got to look compassionate, reward their best supporters, and increase their cash flow, all at once.
So they were using reason - they were just lying about their true intentions.
Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll check it out. BTTT
I don’t think we disagree.
Truth itself - God’s truth - is absolute.
Man can choose to completely disregard truth. Or he can learn of it and try to organize his life around it. But man cannot ever become completely attuned to truth.
In my original comment, I did not try to say that mankind can be or become truth - only that man’s limited ability to percive, understand, and accept God’s truth is relative - a scale from 0% to less than 100% of actual truth.
It seems to me we are describing the same coin, FRiend.
Chairman Mao.
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