@H2O MAN,
H2O MAN wrote:
Give one example were a mod rule type of government has worked.
You need to understand that mob rule ignores the rule of law.
Your question implies that you misunderstand the basic relationship between people and the law... You act as though law were some abstraction apart from the reality of people, their needs, and their survival... As a form in the hands of people who do not understand it, that is what law becomes: An abstraction, and people begin to think of law as a thing, and a goal in itself...
Let me explain the true relationship between law and people... The people are the law, and what they need is the law, and not as an abstraction, but as a means of giving them justice... As Abalard correctly noted: Ius (Justice) is the Genus, and Lex (Law) is a species of it... If law does not deliver justice, and is not just, then it is not law, and no good will follow from it, and eventually the people must abolish it... Law is just a form, and a formality; but if you were gifted with sight you would see beyond law to the people law is meant to serve...
You can see in the wide spread lawlessness of people, their willingness to use law when it suits them and to ignore it when it does not, to cheat on their taxes because the rich evade them legally, to speed because everyone speeds, and no cop means no speed limit that the respect people should have for law that springs from their need and to their defense is missing... You can see in the contempt of the right for the left, and in the willingness of the right to arm itself and invite violence that law is a dead letter to them, and that to them, might makes right is the only law...What they advocate internationally, the going and breaking of other people's homes and property and the stealing of their national resources is as good as done to them, and justified for them by their willingness to support international injustice... Those who most advocate for the law, meaning Western Law are a class of criminals who care nothing for justice, and sneer at cries for justice as weakness, and they write in stone their own indictments...
Justice must come out of law... That people who are just, are also civil and civilized, pacific, understanding and kind... There is no excuse for our miserable treatment of our fellow citizens and human beings other than that it is legal... There is no defense for our destruction of our environment except that it is legal.. The law is an ass... The law we have is the butt hole of the rich and the religious from which all people are supposed to take their sustenance... If we had government of the people, for the people, and by the people we would need only laws over the lawless, that group who normally know no law but of supply and demand, and profit... People are normally moral, and so just, and lawful... The perversion of law to support private interests teaches injustice and lawlessness and violence on a scale too great to police... Look at the cost we pay to know only insecurity... We pay for the failure of law to deliver justice...
