In a perfect world, that is. Yet that reality is no excuse for creating laws which create wrong-doers rather than protect us from the bazaar crazies out there. The former would do better, if they were educated better. The latter would do wrong anyway just to spit in the eyes of authority figures.
Yes, I am a minimalist. I judge according to need rather than desire. It is not my job or yours to create traps that turn non-violent human nature violators – that includes us all – into jailbirds. In jail it is the law of the jungle, and to survive one must become street smart like the hardened criminal.
Many who go into jail for drug usage, fraud or other non-violent crimes come out of that system a real criminal.
We must not let legislators – in an attempt to to coddle the voters’ prejudices and ignorant beliefs – to pass gotcha laws. We must allow the world to have a large portion of untidiness and disorderliness if we wish to keep our freedoms and avoid a police state.
Today’s New York Times featured an article about the new Draconian laws in Arizona to keep illegal wetbacks out of their state. Many people claim that those people are loiterers, burglars and steal jobs from the locals.
To the contrary, I see those people as being a reflection of misplaced priorities. In return we create two phantom criminal classes: the Mexicans are non-violent people wanting to escape poverty in their own land and the enforcers (with voters on their side) are also being victimized and criminalized for hiring such illegals.
On both sides of a divisive issue are being created jailbirds rather than social issue solutions. All laws should be only for the temporary address of non-violent malfeasances, and not for getting tough on phantom criminals.
From the IRS to Interpol to armies’ of liberation, we are creating enemies and criminals that do not and need not exist. Shoot first and ask questions later is great for a Dirty Harry movie – fiction – but is criminal in ninety-five percent of life’s daily issues.
The age has arrived when we should commence the dismantling of laws and dictates which create enemies and criminals out of thin air.
The late Rev. Martin Luther King sums up my argument when he says,
“Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
Unjust laws kill and destroy lives of many who err just once. No God nor judge should wield such power. Laws are, for the most part, a Gestapo tactic used by those in power. The first step in trashing these excesses to develop an awareness of them. Hopefully, I have done my part.
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