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The law is an ass.
Right now, the illegal administration in Washington, DC is busy removing what remains of the rule of law. The nominal president is shuttering or seizing control of many existing institutions because they tried (weakly) to hold the current president accountable for his crimes.
On the books, rape and felony are illegal. In practice, the law is rarely enforced against the powerful. That’s one reason we—The Saners—and other groups—including General Strike US (https://generalstrikeus.com)—are trying to remove tyrants.
And yet the rule of law doesn’t mean much. Laws can, and often are, stupid and cruel. Think of the Nuremberg Laws, the Jim Crow Laws, the Enabling Acts. Laws are simply rules adopted by a government. There is absolutely no moral qualification built into them.
The original American idea—one of the good ideas that still remains out of reach—is that people everywhere have inalienable rights which nobody, including no government has any right to violate. Our Declaration of Independence offered a short and vague list of rights: life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That’s insufficient, but even those rights are routinely and often brutally violated by the United States government and governments around the world. These rights are also violated by giant corporations.
