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Re: Re: Top wasting taxes payers money on stupid court cases |
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Anne |
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Jul 30, 05 - 4:58 PM |
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lysky@ntlworld.com |
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The court case isn't stupid. It's critical. So will be the cases brought against the international war criminals guilty of genocide and hiding in our midst under the aliases of Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary. Either we believe in the force of law or we don't. Either all are equally answerable under the law or there is no law. Under current criteria, the war against Iraq was illegal. Paying for it rather makes us all just a teensy weensy bit liable. Accomplices to the fact. I'd rather not be so considered, thank you. And I need the protection of law to help me fight this latest iniquitous imposition upon both my purse and my conscience.
Some laws that we have may be considered by certain individuals as immoral and therefore non binding. The last time I attended Catechism Classes, that was considered OK. Have things changed any since then? And sometimes the law is simply an ass; Both St Thomas More and Charles Dickens knew that donkey's years ago. But generally, it's all that we have meanwhile to hold onto against the tides of total dissolution. We constantly have to refine the law, under the guiding light of a sense of ethics. Maybe 21st Century ethics just aren't "wot they used to be". Or maybe they are about to improve exponentially if the Peace Tax Seven get their way. Maybe we have been lobotomised into letting the current powers that be, ride rough shod over rescinding rights under law that have been ours for centuries. Therein lies the rub. We might be trying to take one step forwards. This sorry excuse for a Government is hell bent on taking us six steps backwards at every turn.
But there is a sacred point however that can never be compromised. That is the area of a person's personal conscience. Sometimes a man or woman has to do more than simply hold out against state laws that he or she considers immoral. Laws can be amended or changed for political expediency, but a person's sense of personal honour is uniquely theirs, and should be cherished and permitted to remain inviolate; beyond compromise. Our present laws are iniquitous in this respect, and must be completely reformed. How would this critic of the "stupid" court case feel if he was legally obliged to go out and rape and pillage upon instruction by the state or the clergy, willy nilly? Would his own nice little semi detached, pretty little wife and brand new car back home feel 100% safe meanwhile? What if he was still being inveigled into selling his children or his neighbour's children into slavery and prostitution upon the sacred and express whim of some tin pot Deity...or being made to pay ransome for his own personal deliverance from some dictatorial Right Royal Prat? Would he feel quite so confident then that questioning the status quo was a stupid waste of time and money? Certain behavioural expectations have rightly gone the way of the dodo, regardless of our strange affection and nostalgias for certain sacred texts and traditions. Being forced by law to fund other people's current military paranoias and madnesses should be encouraged to disappear a.s.a.p. from the statute books likewise. But it has to be settled in court before we can all go home and have a nice quiet cup of tea to celebrate our coming of age as a species. Finally. |
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