The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization
Paul Craig Roberts
My work documenting how the law was lost began about a quarter of a
century ago. A close friend and distinguished attorney, Dean Booth, first
brought to my attention the erosion of the legal principles on which rests the
rule of law in the United States. My columns on the subject got the attention
of an educational institution that invited me to give a lecture on the subject.
Subsequently, I was invited to give a lecture on “How The Law Was Lost” at the
Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
The work coalesced into a book, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions,
coauthored with my research associate, Lawrence M. Stratton, published in 2000,
with an expanded edition published in 2008. We were able to demonstrate that
Sir Thomas More’s warning about prosecutors and courts disregarding law in
order to more easily convict undesirables and criminals has had the result of
turning law away from being a shield of the people and making it into a weapon
in the hands of government. That is what we witness in the saga of the
Hammonds, long-time ranchers in the Harney Basin of Oregon.
With the intervention of Ammon Bundy, another rancher who suffered
illegal persecution by the Bureau of Land Management but stood them off with
help from armed militia, and his supporters, the BLM’s decades long persecution
of the innocent Hammonds might have come to a crisis before you read this.
Bundy and militiamen, whose count varies from 15 to 150 in the
presstitute media, have seized an Oregon office of the BLM as American
liberty’s protest against the frame-up of the Hammonds on false charges. As I
write the Oregon National Guard and FBI are on the way.
The militiamen have said that they are prepared to die for principles,
and the rule of law is one of them. Of course, the presstitute media is making
the militiamen into the lawbreakers—and even calling them terrorists—and not
the federal government’s illegal prosecution of the Hammonds, whose crime was
their refusal to sell their ranch to the government to be included in the
Masher National Wildlife Refuge.
If there are only 15 militiamen, there is a good chance that they will
all be killed, but if there are 150 armed militiamen prepared for a shootout,
the outcome could be different.
I cannot attest to the accuracy of this report of the situation:https://www.superstation95.com/index.php/world/723 The resources required to verify the information in this account
of how the government escalated a “crisis” out of the refusal of a family to
bend is beyond the resources of this website. However, the story fits perfectly
with everything Lawrence Stratton and I learned over the years that we prepared
our book on how the law was lost. This account of the persecution of the
Hammonds is the way government behaves when government has broken free of the
rule of law.
I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a
rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what
conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial
minorities violate law with something close to impunity.
What I mean is that only the mega-banks and the One Percent have legal
protection, and that is because these people control the government. For
everyone else law is a weapon in the hands of the government to be used against
the American people.
The fact that the shield of law no longer exists for American citizens
is why, according to US Department of Justice statistics, only 4 percent of
federal felonies ever go to trial. Almost the entirety of federal felonies are
settled by coerced plea bargains that force defendants to admit to crimes that
they did not commit in order to avoid “expanded indictments” that, if presented
to the typical stupid, trusting, gullible American “jury of their peers,” would
lock them away for hundreds of years.
American justice is a joke. It does not exist. You can see this in the
American prison population. “Freedom and Democracy” America not only has the
largest percentage of its population in prison than any country on the
planet, but also the largest number of prisoners.
If you consider that “authoritarian” China has four times the population of the
United States but fewer prisoners, you understand that “authoritarian” China
has a more protective rule of law than the United States.
Compared to “freedom and democracy America,” Russia has hardly anyone in
prison. Yet, Washington and its media whores have defined the President of
Russia as “the new Hitler.”
The only thing we can conclude from the facts is that the United States
Government and those ignorant fools who worship it are evil incarnate.
Out of evil comes dictatorship. The White House Fool, at best a two-bit
punk, has decided that he doesn’t like the Second Amendment to the US
Constitution any more than he likes any of the other constitutional protections
of US citizens. He is looking for dictatorial methods, that is, unlegislated
executive orders, to overturn the Second Amendment. He has the corrupt US
Department of Justice, a criminal organization, looking for ways for the
dictator to overturn both Congressional legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
The media whores have fallen in line with the would-be dictator. All we
hear is “gun violence.” If only Karl Marx were still with us. He would ridicule
these fools for turning inanimate objects into purposeful actors. It is
extraordinary that the American left-wing thinks that guns, not people, kill
people.
The position of the “progressive left-wing” in the United States is
perplexing. Here are Americans, immersed into a police state, as are the
Hammonds, and the progressive left-wing wants to disarm the population.
Whatever this “progressive left-wing opposition” is, it has nothing in
common with revolutionaries. The American left-wing is totally irrevelant, a
defeated force that sold out and no longer represents the people or the truth.
I cannot but wonder how much the American ”progressive left” is being
paid by Washington.
Even more astonishing, judging by comments on RT’s report on the
situation and the readers comments, all RT and American blacks want to know is
where is the National Guard in Oregon? Why isn’t it called out against the
White militia protests as it was called out against the Black Ferguson protests? https://www.rt.com/usa/327809-bundy-militia-oregon-reaction/
If protesting the murder of a young black American by Ferguson police is not
legitimate and the protesters are “terrorists,” why aren’t the Oregon
protestors terrorists for trying to protect jailbirds from their “lawful
sentence”? This is the wrong question.
It really is discouraging that the American black community is unable to
understand that if any American can be dispossessed, all Americans can be
dispossessed.
It is also discouraging that RT decided to play the race card instead of
comprehending that law is no longer a shield of the American people but is a
weapon in the hands of Washington.
Why doesn’t RT at least listen to the President of Russia, who states
repeatedly that America and the West are lawless?
Putin is correct. America and its vassals are lawless. No one is
safe from the government.
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