Peak Government: Team Biden Told to Write Regulations for the Sake of Regulating

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The Palmetto Cynic
The Palmetto Cynic
4 years ago

Bill W. & Co. are good guys, however there is a flaw in their thinking. Bear with me as I develop this thought:
Let us first make a distinction between the terms “law” and “legislation.” We must first understand this distinction before we can make sense of why it is impossible for the state and its public governing apparatus to uphold the rule of law. To expound, Hans Hermann Hoppe defines this difference:
“…rules express and explicate the “natural law.” “Natural,” given the uniquely human goal of peaceful interaction; and “natural,” because these laws are “given” and merely discovered as such by man. That is, they are emphatically not laws that are made-up, contrived, or decreed. In fact, all man-made (rather than discovered or found) law, i.e., all legislation, is not law at all, but a perversion of law: orders, commands, or prescriptions that do not lead to peace, but to conflict, and hence are dysfunctional of the very purpose of laws.”
So when we speak of “law” we refer to the “natural law”, that body of law that has been discovered and taken as “given.” Such laws would include, among many others:
•   The preclusion of taking anothers life.
•   The non-toleration of theft of material possessions.
•   The abhorrence of false witness, lying, and fraud in all forms.
Made up or contrived law (legislation) leads to conflict instead of order, as legislation’s sole aim is benefiting one segment of the social order over another. Examples include:
•   The National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA) that precludes the citizen’s right to self defense unless the citizen is using state-sanctioned firearms.
•   The Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) that opened the door to federally financed preK through 12 schools that ensure that all citizenry is properly indoctrinated in state mythology. This law requires the violation of the citizen’s property rights by requiring federal (taxpayer) funding of preK-12, whether or not that citizen has school aged children or not.
The history and end result of these two long-standing bodies of legislation are perfect illustrative examples of the concept that legislation causes conflict and disorder as they both restrict the use that one can make of their own property. The dysfunctional zero-sum result from these two simple examples is readily apparent. In the first example, the gun owner must surrender his property (firearm) to the state or pay a confiscatory licensing fee, which is another abuse of property rights where the firearm owner would surrender the most liquid form of property: money. If the property owner refuses to comply, then state has placed its police forces into conflict with the gun owner. In this zero-sum game, the state and its crony advocates for gun control have won, while the property owner loses, regardless of the alternative he is forced to “choose” between.
In the second example of abusive state legislation, a 65-year-old retired widow is forced to pay for the education of her 35-year-old neighbor’s three children. The property violation in this case is also readily apparent as the widow is forced to pay for a service she never receives. Furthermore, the state has placed the widow in a state of conflict with her neighbor. In this zero-sum game, the widow has lost and her neighbor has gained.
At this point is has been established that law is necessary for a peaceful social order, but man-made legislation introduces conflict and dysfunction. This is what Bill Whittle misses, along with most Republicans and all Democrats.

Gryphon
Gryphon
4 years ago

The Constitution was based on the concept of Natural Rights. When the Original Constitution was Eliminated after the Secession of some States, and the subsequent War of Northern Aggression, it was Replaced with a “Corporate” Constitution for the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, a “Crown Corporation” under British Admiralty Law. All ‘laws’ and ‘regulations’ are made under the “Uniform Commercial Code” of this Corporation.
“Natural Law”, as both a Legal Concept and Fact are Not Recognized by the Corporate Structure. “United States Citizens” are corporate Fictions, having No Rights, and Subject to Regulations.
While Incorrectly labeled, “Sovereign Citizens” (it’s not ‘citizens’, it’s Sovereign Individuals) is the Conceptual Legal Principle that the Founders of the Nation understood, along with Natural Law. Any ‘politician’ (s)elected or not, any bureaucrat, judge or other ‘officer’ of the government corporation is committing a Fraud by representing themselves as “Constitutional Officers”.
It’s gonna take a Lot of Ammo, and Diesel Fuel for the Wood-Chippers, to solve this Problem.