Tyranny!

What is the true purpose of Law? I posed this question to a 4th year student of Law, who spontaneously replied, “Law is an instrument of social control.”

Actually, law exists in order to PROTECT everyone. That is why people have revered the law in the past. Even today, people confuse anarcho-capitalism with lawlessness – and are terrified of living without law.

We need good laws in order to protect ourselves, our properties, and our future plans. These good laws comprise property, contracts and torts – and nothing more. And all this is “private law” – in the sense that a rent contract or a sale deed are “law” because two private persons have signed it and are therefore legally bound by it.

Things are different with Legislation – which should never be confused with Law. Legislation is man-made and it is an interference in the lives of the citizenry. It is legislation that has become an “instrument for social control,” and vast powers have been created to further this evil agenda. This is all that Democracy has achieved, what with the horrendous idea of “parliamentary sovereignty.” In Europe, right up to fairly recent times, and right through the Middle Ages, the idea was of a sovereignty that lay in the law. The Law was Above the King. The King ruled under God and the Law. Now, parliament is above law – and that is why we suffer from what Bruno Leoni called “inflated legislation.”

This idea of a socialist democratic The State that tries to “control” a society that it does not protect is brought home by this story on the Ahmedabad Stasi that a reader linked to on the comment form yesterday. The reader wrote how robberies, burglaries and traffic chaos mark life in Ahmedabad, and how the Stasi Police are resorting to “social control” instead of performing their legal duties. If these were performed, the people would be better protected.

Instead, the Stasi are covering up their obvious failures by playing “moral police” during the religious festivities currently underway. The Stasi are particularly against lovers. They will not allow lovers the liberty to express love in public.

My question: Are lovers “good guys” or “bad guys”?

And are cops meant to go after good guys or bad guys?

Well, so there you have the answer: Our legal system, built on Legislation, and our administrative system, empowered by loads of “subordinate legislation,” do NOT protect us. The entire State apparatus is built to exert “social control,” mostly of a perverse kind, as in this particular instance.

They do not protect.

They only want to control, to bully, to intimidate.

This is the naked face of Tyranny.