🚀 go-pugleaf

Marcus Taliaferro wrote:

> I was number 1365 to sign. It will take a bunch more than that to make it
> fly.
> M
>
> "Charles Douglas" <doyglasc@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:3D1A90F7.369E8BD1@nospam.com...
> > "Michael A. Clem" wrote:
> > >
> > > Some laws are intended to protect us, but many laws are not.  Even laws
> that
> > > are intended to protect us don't always achieve their goals;  sometimes
> they
> > > create worse problems.  In some ways, you're as bad as the "liberals"
> you
> > > complain about: "The law is the law, never mind the consequences."
> >
> So, if you don't like the law(s) get it (them) changed. Until that time,
> follow the law. It's not your decision to follow only the ones you want to
> follow and break the ones you don't like. I guess by your definition, it was
> OK for the 7 to die and 31 others injured because in your mind the illegals
> help this country in some (special) way?????? It was a justified breaking of
> the law??????
>

You're still missing the point.  Just because a law exists doesn't mean that the
alleged "crime" won't be committed.  By supporting bad laws, one is supporting
the consequences of them, including the deaths and injuries.
  Laws only work if most people accept them, and bad laws give people less
reason to respect laws, any laws.  Like any other tyranny, laws that are forced
upon people hardly deserve the term "law", much less respect.  Democracy, where
the majority gets to force their views on minorities and individuals, is not
synonymous with freedom.  It's highly unlikely that we will ever "vote" our way
to freedom, and much more likely that we will continue to vote ourselves towards
the "new slavery", as we have for the last hundred years or so.  Look how people
are falling all over themselves to give up their rights for the government's
assurance of safety from terrorists.  The value of such assurance isn't worth
the paper the legislation is printed upon, much less the sacrifice of our rights
and freedoms.
  It is *everyone's* responsibility to decide which laws are justified, and
which are not, because otherwise we'd be mindless sheep who do whatever our
"leaders" tell us to do, and not free individuals.