Russell Twyce

“We fight for the rule-of-law!”  The politician hammers his fist on the podium and shouts.  “The rule-of-law is our way of life.”

“Freedom rules,” a young man in the audience shouts at the top of his lungs, “and law drools.”

The politician’s security squad hustles out, tackles the youth, and they drag him away.  The other folk in the assembly are uncertain of how to react.  The heckler had said ‘freedom rules’ and that was a concept they’ve been taught to cheer, but he had finished with a slur on the rule of law.  His message was mixed and so is the general reaction.  Some hope the lad is severely pummeled by the burly security guards, and he doubtlessly will be.  Another group feel compassion and wonder why youth is so rebellious towards a rule-of-law system that protects them (the rule-of-law really doesn’t protect anyone).  The third segment of the crowd is unsure of how to feel, so most exercise apathy and push the confusion to the back mind.

[private_Chevron]There two opposed concepts in the young man’s criticism of the rule-of-law.  The first was ‘freedom’ and the second was ‘rule’.  One cancels out the other.  You can have freedom or rule but not both.  To suggest otherwise is illogical.  I know that you’ve been conditioned to believe the rule-of-law equates to freedom but it doesn’t-period.  Rule is (obedience, non-freedom, slavery) and freedom is freedom.[/private_Chevron]

Right now, your brain is likely screaming “ANARCHY!” Because that’s how your trained to react. But that’s also false.  The opposite of the Rule of Law needn’t be Anarchy and Chaos, just as the opposite of a PC is not ‘no computer’.  The opposite of rule of law could be, and should be social order keeping by a method that isn’t the rule-of-law, just as the opposite of ‘no PC’ can be, and is ‘Mac’.

[private_Chevron]Those who favor the rule-of-law, do not want you to believe that an alternative is possible: they don’t even want you to think clearly and rationally about a different system than law–so the society you live in has been stuffed full of pro-law propaganda.  Your brainwaves have also been saturated with the false belief that; the rule-of-law protects you (it doesn’t: the rule-of-law only protects itself), without the rule of law there would be chaos (without any public order keeping there would be anarchy but the rule of law isn’t the only way to keep chaos at bay), and that the rule-of-law and law makers are addressing the social problems that seem to be growing despite all efforts (In fact, the rule of law is CAUSING most the ills in society.)

The solution to the problems with the rule-of-law: Get rid of the rule of law in favor of a better method.  There IS a far superior alternative but you’re not even going to be able to comprehend that unless you can overcome your societal programming to think logically and clearly about the rule of law issue.[/private_Chevron]