Thoughts on Government

"Give us more laws for we will follow."

It would seem that America’s battle cry these days could be summed up using this general cry “Give us more laws for we will follow, tax us for we will give, and by all means use more force to make everyone comply.” It is a nightmarish vision. Can we be so stupid as to believe happiness will ensue??

Simple laws are added and forced upon us at an alarming rate. It comes to the point where people beg to live in the bondage. Can the convenience of being told exactly where, how, and what time they can get rid of the garbage really be worth the cost of freedom which one is forced to pay? Why for the convenience of not having a messy neighbor are people so willing to give up the rights of decision making which allow life to be enjoyable?

To simply state my political standpoint I am inclined to see a small, weak form of government to be more of an ideal goal. It would seem that with each new investment of power in government we turn over more freedoms thus the corruption increases and the bondage deepens.

I believe that higher law is of greater validity than civil law. Right and wrong are not matters of opinion which can be bended and molded to fit the whims of society. The founding fathers were wise to base their patterns of liberty on higher law using patterns from the old common laws.
I would say that in my general use of the word law I would define it as is a morally binding rule of conduct. To be a good law it must be based on these two basic ideas. Fulfilling all you have agreed to do and not encroaching on the rights of others.

Government as a whole actually would seem to be at odds with those those laws. Since a government is set up as a institution which claims the privilege of violating both of these ideas. It is continuously encroaching on the rights of law abiding citizens and it does not hold up it’s end of the bargain. I see government as the bully who sets himself up on the playground. He tells people the way his games are to be played but breaks his own rules whenever he can do so to his own advantage.

A state of government is inevitable for there will always be a bully on the playground who is capable of strong arming his victims into submission. I must concede then that the key to keeping a good government would seem to be keeping it in check, allowing it to have only a small influence so that the power it invests over the whole of it’s realm is relatively harmless. Much like an alliance on the playground to insure that the bully isn’t able to harm those he seemingly controls.

To quote Thomas Paine, “Government even in it’s best state, is but a necessary evil.”