When the Law Is Wrong

Wittenberg Gate has an excellent take on the Schiavo case, and what it means when the law runs perpendicular to what is right and just.

We are a nation of laws, it is often said. This is manifestly untrue.

We are a nation of men, a nation of human beings bound together by culture, by history, by accident, and by will.

We have hundreds of thousands of laws on the books, two-and-a-half centuries' worth of inscrutable scribbling by lettered parasites who presume to be statesmen.

It has gotten to the point where you and I unknowingly violate several of these innumerable, insufferable little demands a day, mostly without any consequence at all. The nation moves on.

Are each of these laws to be accorded the respect of the Decalogue?

No.

Were the legislators who crafted each of these laws infallible?

No.

Are the judges who weigh each law against each alleged violation of it possessed invariably of Solomonic wisdom?

No.

What recourse have we when corrupt judges and corrupt lawmakers conspire against their sacred obligation to their countrymen?

Read Wittenberg Gate and the implications should become crystal clear.