"The Law is Not Optional"

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://m.nationalreview.com/article/394224/law-not-optional-thomas-sowell

 

 

Every society has orders and rules, but not every society has the rule of law — “a government of laws and not of men.” Nor was it easy to achieve even an approximation of the rule of law. It took centuries of struggle — and lives risked and sacrificed — to achieve it in those countries that have some approximation of it today.

To just throw all of that overboard because of mobs, the media, or racial demagoguery is staggering.

A generation that jumps to conclusions on the basis of its own emotions, or succumbs to the passions or rhetoric of others, deserves to lose the freedom that depends on the rule of law. Unfortunately, what they say and what they do can lose everyone’s freedom, including the freedom of generations yet unborn.

If grand juries are supposed to vote on the basis of what mobs want, instead of on the basis of the evidence that they see — and that the mob doesn’t even want to see — then we forfeit the rule of law and our freedom that depends on it.

 

[Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172]

I can't argue with that.

[Boon Doggle]

Yep.

[Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme]

Spot on. Agree 100% with it. And, so should the idiot members of Congress who walked out to do their little "Hands Up, Don't Shoot"

chant the other day. You either believe in the law......or you don't.

 

CBO

[Marshal Dan Troop 70448]

Thanks for posting. MT

[DocWard]

Thomas Sowell. A brilliant mind.