Posted on 05/21/2016 1:25:07 AM PDT by Jacquerie
"I don't accept the law of gravity."
"Then I encourage you to jump, sir.”
Over the course of a weekend lunch with my wife, we pondered the goodness of craft beer, and soon wandered into the necessity of North Carolina’s bathroom law. We shook our heads at the idiocracy of Loretta Lynch’s opposition, and her disregard of Natural Law. I was warming up to say something about Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of God’s differential calculus when my wife came up with the advice above for Natural Law deniers.
Bring up Natural Law to friends, its importance to free government, and the response is often a dismissive eye roll as they attempt to change the subject. Even conservatives, those who KNOW Natural Law is essential to the great American experiment in free government, often display an uncomfortable body language.
Natural Law is at one and the same time a command of God, a rule of reason and a law in the very nature of things as they are, by which they work and we work too. Natural Law is the Law of Reason. For instance, marriage is naturally between a man and a woman. Various societies figured this out long ago. Rational people use their reason; when they do, they easily determine that teenage boys should be kept out of girls’ bathrooms. A nation that respects the Laws of Nature wouldn’t rely on its top lawyer, the Attorney General of the United States to set unnatural bathroom policy. But these high moral relativists cannot help themselves. Irrational people refuse reason, Natural Law.
Leftists cannot admit the existence of Natural Law. To fight on such unfriendly and hostile ground would admit subservience to God and His Laws. If they accepted Natural Law, there wouldn’t a be a welfare state nor even a Bernie Sanders candidacy. Whether the thief is an individual or government, theft is theft; no one man or multitude of men can give away the Natural Property Right of another.
America 2016 is in decline precisely because some of the nation and all of the national government disregards that which applies to all of us and all government at all times. God is the author of this law, its promulgator and its enforcing judge. What have been the consequences of widespread governmental denial of Natural Law; what have been the judgments of the enforcing judge?
• While the Framing generation recognized the contradiction between slavery and reason, a great war was necessary to remove the scourge.
• State sponsored murder, abortion, has denied to society some fifty-five million Americans.
• Do you support the welfare, redistributionist state? Visit Detroit or any prison. See the damage done to society through destruction of the family.
• Destructive executive branch environmental, energy, education, . . . . diktats deny our right to self-government. Administrative pronouncements have more in common with absolute monarchy than with American republicanism.
• Minimum wage laws damage the very people our Leftist masters purport to assist.
• Our borders are open to peoples hostile to American ideals due to the Leftist denial of evil.
So, we’ve come full circle to the very purpose of this Article V Blog, which is dedicated to the renewal of American Free Government. Free Government is that happy condition wherein government respects and protects the unalienable, Natural Rights of the nation, and makes no law without its consent. It is the system put into practice by our 1787 Constitution.
First principles are just that. The purpose of government isn’t to destroy the society that created it. No, its purpose is to nurture and promote civil society. I hope the reader has come to the conclusion that elections alone have proved incapable of keeping free government, and that fundamental change, a return to the Framers’ structure is our only hope to restore liberty.
We are the many; our oppressors are the few. Be proactive. Be a Re-Founder of the American Republic. Join Convention of States. Sign the COS Petition.
To the left, everything should be at the whim of some dictator or powerful or wealthy interest group. The idea that there is such a thing as objective reality and that things have a nature to them is something the left hates because that means there are things outside of the power of any would-be dictator.
The nutty left is more interested in the unnatural.
Natural Law as set forth by the Judeo-Christian traditions of Western Civilization is same natural law that governs all of the life forms on this Earth. It is a manifestation of the Creator. It is unchanging and universal and the basis of our Constitution. To deny natural law would be like preventing the salmon from returning to their birth river to spawn or the birds to build nests. It is the scientific method by which Natural Law is understood. It is the scientific method that has been the crowning achievement of mankind. From it has come all discovery and scientific understanding. It is that method of understanding that the Left must destroy to achieve their goals which run contrary to scientific fact and Natural Law. Their effort is the essence of totalitarianism and what our Founding Fathers created a New Nation to oppose.
I would also venture to say that the left’s denial of natural law is fomented by a diabolical resistance to the precepts of natural law — a resistance they fully participate in. Even many on the right fail to see the supernatural Link.
"I do not think that illegal plunder, such as theft or swindling — which the penal code defines, anticipates, and punishes — can be called socialism. It is not this kind of plunder that systematically threatens the foundations of society."
"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame, danger, and scruple which their acts would otherwise involve. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. In short, there is a legal plunder…"
"But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
"Then abolish this law without delay, for it is not only an evil itself, but also it is a fertile source for further evils because it invites reprisals. If such a law — which may be an isolated case — is not abolished immediately, it will spread, multiply, and develop into a system."
/Bastiat
Craft beer (capitalism at its finest), natural law BUMP!
DEPOPULATE socialists from the body politic. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
That is the foundation of all Leftism/Liberalism. They know it. Unfortunately, many Conservatives do not.
Some who are "conservative", in a few areas, also fall into this category. The transition to "Libertarian" comes easily, often followed by Liberalism/Progressiveism/Leftism.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed..."
Well said. I would only add that gulags, concentration camps, killing fields, Cuba, etc. are inevitable end points when Natural Law is denied.
The relatively slow departure from Natural Law, has been accelerated by progressive amendments to the Constitution of the United States and 1913 was a particularly bad year. I submit we do not need more amendments to be abused, and distorted, by the half of Society bent on the destruction of good as Natural Law understands it. If it was my call, we would be back to the first thirteen. Fourteen through nineteen have been abused beyond belief.
Many reference Romans 1:18-32, "God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity", for a sense of what's going on in our times.
The Deniers generally have a serious hostility to God and God's Law as well as many to all of the traits described in that reference.
"Whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad."
~Seneca
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"For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind."
~John Dryden
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People had more than they needed.
People didn't know what was precious and what wasn't.
People threw away things they kill each other for now.
- Eli from The Book of Eli
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