Should We Obey All Laws?

Townhall.com ^ | May 16, 2012 | Walter E. Williams

[Biggirl]

But if those laws conflict with the laws of God, God’s laws much come first.

[tomkat]

Bravo !

+1

[Lady Lucky]

I don't believe that you could find a U.S. soldier who would follow a presidential order to descend on a state to round up or shoot down fellow Americans because they refuse to follow a congressional order to buy health insurance.

Well I believe it.

[Lady Lucky]

I don't believe that you could find a U.S. soldier who would follow a presidential order to descend on a state to round up or shoot down fellow Americans because they refuse to follow a congressional order to buy health insurance.

And then there's the paramilitary police. How many more incidents need to happen before you start believing that people will do just about anything that authority commands?

Search "Milgram" for a refresher course.

[USCG SimTech]

I don't believe that you could find a U.S. soldier who would follow a presidential order to descend on a state to round up or shoot down fellow Americans because they refuse to follow a congressional order to buy health insurance.

Well I believe it.

If a member of the armed forces is issued an illegal order it is that service members duty to report the illegal order and TAKE ACTION to resolve the situation. This includes arresting that next upper chain of command for mutiny.

[Uncle Ike]

I really wonder if, in our Nation as it exists today, there is a sufficient number of non-sheep to form the critical mass necessary to beat back tyranny...

[TheCause]

A Royal Proclamation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLIJv6z21XM

Liberty will reign.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2FAAVPX-jg

[Lady Lucky]

Yes, I'm aware of that. Nevertheless, many will not choose to view a given order as illegal, but instead decide to agree with the authority that commands (and that controls their careers, their fortunes, their very lives).

In any case the soldiers won't be troubled with the job of suppressing resistance to obamacare. The paramilitary police will SWAT down all opponents.

Imagine if they'd been around during Prohibition.

[EBH]

Moral people can't rely solely on the courts to establish what's right or wrong

This is what is profoundly different in our country today. When they removed God from the public square they made the government the final say in what is moral.

Agree or disagree all you want, but one only needs to look to 0bama's current stance on gay rights and the twisting he did to get it to fit his 'christian faith' and one has the truth. 0bama standing up there acting and proclaiming the immoral acts of government, as the voice of God's intent.

[muir_redwoods]

When the government (all three branches, federal state and local) abandoned the Constitution and ceased to be bound by it the precedent was set that all laws are voluntary and observance of thd law I’d unnecessary so long as one can avoid the jack-booted street gang of the police.

I’m not advocating anarchy, I am merely observing it practiced by professionals.

[Kaslin]

bump

[Little Ray]

And what about seizing privately owned firearms and ammunition from the public? We already KNOW that cops will do it (wake up call courtesy of the NOPD - Katrina).

[Kaslin]

correct

[EBH]

If a member of the armed forces is issued an illegal order it is that service members duty to report the illegal order and TAKE ACTION to resolve the situation

Here is the twist on that...

If the law stands, the order is not illegal. The only way the order is illegal is if the courts rule 0bamacare is unConstitutional and 0bama/IRS/government implement it anyway. Then and only then is it illegal. Members of the armed services are not protected from immoral laws, just illegal ones.

[Lazamataz]

Walter Williams is amazing.

[stockpirate]

SCOTUS is NOT the final word on the US Constitution, it is “We the People”, and no we should not obey laws that are against the US Constition, as Jefferson I think said, “Rebellion to tryanny is obedience to God”

[Pollster1]

But if those laws conflict with the laws of God, God’s laws much come first.

"Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's." I think we all know how little is owed to government when there is a conflict, since everything is God's.

[Lady Lucky]

Of course!
Although in recent years the Second Amendment seems to have cut a few extra teeth, you know if enough people got stirred up to resist government oppression, the gun grabbing would commence in no time at all. Manufacturers would get “temporarily” shut down (and shutting down a business temporarily can be like stopping someone from breathing temporarily).
The Occupy vermin could turn back the pro-2A advances all by themselves with a few lively riots in major cities.
Our push will inevitably come to govt shove, and govt holds most of the cards.

[Biggirl]

Thank-you for the scrpture confirmation.