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Dear Editor Gwinnett Daily Post:
Over the last 60+ years, Republicans have repeatedly negotiated with the "Devil." Like their socialist stable-mates, they keep using federal law to perpetuate their brand of commerce and society. Republicans came close to breaking out of this flawed immoral strategy during Reagan’s first term and again in 1994 with the Contract with America.
In every culture, past and present, it has been just to use force to protect your life and property. Force is justified if another person is trying to kill you. Just law, is simply the collective right to use protective force. Justice is always defensive, not offensive. It is never just to take someone’s life, liberty or property; except in defense of the same.
Man’s first laws were likely prehistoric. Two cavemen agreed to take turns protecting their combined families and property. The implied threat of their collective force is called law. There is no logical way to extend just law beyond its defensive use. This matches the individual’s right to use defensive force. Two cave men joining forces to protect themselves from a common threat have a stronger combined defensive position.
Law is unjust, when it uses the threat of force, to constantly redistribute wealth or favoritism based on political correctness or fashion. When Republicans use law to do this, they have no moral defense when the other side does it. How can they denounce social welfare while corporations gobble up taxpayer money?
Everything government gives you must first be taken from somebody else. Once law, with its implied threat of force, is used to organize anything other than justice, it infringes on somebody. Commerce, philanthropy, labor, education, and religion are things we as individuals can do without the threat of force. If we choose to give away our property, we do it. If we choose to trade with our neighbor, we do it. If we choose to work 12-hour days or do the minimum labor required to sustain our existence, we do it. Law cannot be used to organize these activities without destroying individual liberty and justice.
Once unjust law becomes the norm, it attracts people who take advantage of its unlawful usefulness. Do not wonder why we have sleazy politicians.
I recommend Republicans pursue a moral strategy firmly rooted in justice. I’m not talking about endless debates on thousands of issues. I’m talking about an overriding principle based on justice for all.
Wes Alexander
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