DROWNING IN LEGISLATION
The law is a weapon used by the government to strangle the life out of Australians.
The average citizen is suffocated through their perverted obsession with safety.
You’re not allowed to go fishing, hunting, buy a weapon, build the type of property you want, take cash out of the bank, smoke where you want, drink where you want, gamble, hike, camp, light a fire, or own an animal.
And I notice that the people around me are too scared to do anything for fear of breaching a rule.
They’re not sure which rule specifically, but they know that if they simply behave like a human for a long enough period of time they’ll be in breach of some piece of fake legislation.
It’s gotten so out of hand that no single lawyer or politician truly understands the patchwork of legislation that’s been put in place.
And I think that all these convoluted regulations serve a purpose
In this way, if the government ever wants to make your life hell, there will always be some legal avenue available for them to do so.
They can just dig through your past and find some obscure regulation that I didn’t adhere to in 1987.
And so all that concern about your safety is fake.
It's just a guise under which they can pass laws which restrict your freedoms.
Obviously.
It's the oldest trick in the book, but you fall for it every time.
And I think it's obvious that we don't need all these rules
Because we already had the laws right thousands of years ago.
Moses realised that we only need 10.
And in 1946, Radbruch explained to us how a slavish adherence to man-made law is what enabled the Nazi party to take control.
And I see the same thing happening in Australia today.
Our laws are totalitarian and the people love it.
They love the smug sense of self-satisfaction they get when they write to the Council about their neighbour who put a shade sail up without approval.
And when I see this, I understand how Nazi Germany happened.
I think we’re probably closer to that point than we care to realise.
Because human nature is inert.
We've always craved power and control.
And left unchecked, it runs rampant.
johngoddard / John Goddard
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