Are "respecting" the law and "following" the law the same thing?

[Vermont Carry]

I do no believe they are the same. I have absolutely NO respect for 99% of federal so called "laws" (because almost all of them are patentely unconstitutional), yet I follow them to keep the storm troopers from throwing me on the next boxcar to the gulag with the millions of other non violent so called "criminals" the feds lock up every year.

I constantly hear people say that "we should respect the law." I belive that such bullying statements are straight out of the government loyalist's handbook. If they recognized what a destroyer of lives that government is, they would INSTEAD advocate the FOLLOWING of the law so as to keep you safe, as opposed to demanding that you "respect" (or lick the boots) of it.

America needs fewer laws, not more prisons. — JAMES BOVARD

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey

Good men must not obey the laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[Vermont Carry]

I didn't get a chance to put out my favorite quote in the other thread before it was closed, but it applies to that as WELL as this one. I meant it in response to those who rivet our chains upon our necks

So, if in previous positions of employment, I worked for the Federal and state governments at various times, does that make me a Hessian?

If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow-sufferers

 

[Al Norris]

Vermont Carry: You're new here. Don't know how long you've lurked before joining, but this thread is not much more than a continuation of the other thread that you started today. One that I've just closed.

I think it safe to say that YOU are the only person that most likely doesn't know why.

Allow me to elaborate. The US is a representative republic. That means we vote for members of congress to represent our interests. When those politicians don't do what we think they are supposed to be doing, we vote someone else into their office.

Regardless what you or I may think of these congress-critters, the majority of those casting votes must think they are doing a bang-up job, or they wouldn't keep electing the same people back into office.

And that my friend is the way it is supposed to be. Don't like it? Then get enough people to vote your way and go to it!

Now, as for the Law. We are a nation of Law. There are set ways to change laws we don't like. See the above explanation. Otherwise, we obey the law and we respect it, because we are the ones that voted in the folks that are making the laws!

This is not tyranny. This is the limited democracy at work, as per the Constitution. Didn't you make mention that we are supposed to follow it? We are!

Don't like the way the Courts interpret the Law? There are Constitutional means to change that also... But that means that you have to read and understand that document in the first place....

...Ah, I see that you have noticed I closed your first thread and are responding to a closed thread in this thread. Bad manners here at TFL. But it just reinforces what I said above, that this thread is much the same as the first one.

With that, this one is also closed. Duplicate thread; lack of decorum; and lack of curtesy to the membership at large.