Paul Craig Roberts: The Rule Of Law No Longer Exists In Western Civilization
Authored by Paul Craig Roberts,
My work documenting how the law was lost began about a quarter of a century ago. A close friend and distinguished attorney, Dean Booth, first brought to my attention the erosion of the legal principles on which rests the rule of law in the United States. My columns on the subject got the attention of an educational institution that invited me to give a lecture on the subject. Subsequently, I was invited to give a lecture on “How The Law Was Lost” at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
The work coalesced into a book, The Tyranny Of Good Intentions, coauthored with my research associate, Lawrence M. Stratton, published in 2000, with an expanded edition published in 2008. We were able to demonstrate that Sir Thomas More’s warning about prosecutors and courts disregarding law in order to more easily convict undesirables and criminals has had the result of turning law away from being a shield of the people and making it into a weapon in the hands of government. That is what we witness in the saga of the Hammonds, long-time ranchers in the Harney Basin of Oregon.
With the intervention of Ammon Bundy, another rancher who suffered illegal persecution by the Bureau of Land Management but stood them off with help from armed militia, and his supporters, the BLM’s decades long persecution of the innocent Hammonds might have come to a crisis before you read this.
Bundy and militiamen, whose count varies from 15 to 150 in the presstitute media, have seized an Oregon office of the BLM as American liberty’s protest against the frame-up of the Hammonds on false charges. As I write the Oregon National Guard and FBI are on the way.
The militiamen have said that they are prepared to die for principles, and the rule of law is one of them. Of course, the presstitute media is making the militiamen into the lawbreakers—and even calling them terrorists—and not the federal government’s illegal prosecution of the Hammonds, whose crime was their refusal to sell their ranch to the government to be included in the Masher National Wildlife Refuge.
If there are only 15 militiamen, there is a good chance that they will all be killed, but if there are 150 armed militiamen prepared for a shootout, the outcome could be different.
I cannot attest to the accuracy of this report of the situation (the resources required to verify the information in this account of how the government escalated a “crisis” out of the refusal of a family to bend is beyond the resources of this website) - However, the story fits perfectly with everything Lawrence Stratton and I learned over the years that we prepared our book on how the law was lost. This account of the persecution of the Hammonds is the way government behaves when government has broken free of the rule of law.
I can attest with full confidence that the United States no longer has a rule of law. The USA is a lawless country. By that I do not mean what conservative Republicans mean, which is, if I understand them, that racial minorities violate law with something close to impunity.
What I mean is that only the mega-banks and the One Percent have legal protection, and that is because these people control the government. For everyone else law is a weapon in the hands of the government to be used against the American people.
The fact that the shield of law no longer exists for American citizens is why, according to US Department of Justice statistics, only 4 percent of federal felonies ever go to trial. Almost the entirety of federal felonies are settled by coerced plea bargains that force defendants to admit to crimes that they did not commit in order to avoid “expanded indictments” that, if presented to the typical stupid, trusting, gullible American “jury of their peers,” would lock them away for hundreds of years.
American justice is a joke. It does not exist. You can see this in the American prison population. “Freedom and Democracy” America not only has the largest percentage of its population in prison than any country on the planet, but also the largest number of prisoners.
If you consider that “authoritarian” China has four times the population of the United States but fewer prisoners, you understand that “authoritarian” China has a more protective rule of law than the United States.
Compared to “freedom and democracy America,” Russia has hardly anyone in prison. Yet, Washington and its media whores have defined the President of Russia as “the new Hitler.”
The only thing we can conclude from the facts is that the United States Government and those ignorant fools who worship it are evil incarnate.
Out of evil comes dictatorship. The White House Fool, at best a two-bit punk, has decided that he doesn’t like the Second Amendment to the US Constitution any more than he likes any of the other constitutional protections of US citizens. He is looking for dictatorial methods, that is, unlegislated executive orders, to overturn the Second Amendment. He has the corrupt US Department of Justice, a criminal organization, looking for ways for the dictator to overturn both Congressional legislation and Supreme Court rulings.
The media whores have fallen in line with the would-be dictator. All we hear is “gun violence.” If only Karl Marx were still with us. He would ridicule those who turn inanimate objects into purposeful actors. It is extraordinary that the American left-wing thinks that guns, not people, kill people.
The position of the “progressive left-wing” in the United States is perplexing. Here are Americans, immersed into a police state, as are the Hammonds, and the progressive left-wing wants to disarm the population.
Whatever this “progressive left-wing opposition” is, it has nothing in common with revolutionaries. The American left-wing is totally irrevelant, a defeated force that sold out and no longer represents the people or the truth.
If protesting the murder of a young black American by Ferguson police is not legitimate and the protesters are “terrorists,” why aren’t the Oregon protestors terrorists for trying to protect jailbirds from their “lawful sentence”? This is the wrong question.
It really is discouraging that the American black community is unable to understand that if any American can be dispossessed, all Americans can be dispossessed.
It is also discouraging that RT decided to play the race card instead of comprehending that law is no longer a shield of the American people but is a weapon in the hands of Washington.
Why doesn’t RT at least listen to the President of Russia, who states repeatedly that America and the West are lawless.
Putin is correct. America and its vassals are lawless. No one is safe from the government.
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When boneheads blog.
You finally found the mainstream in the middle of your life
You tapped into a vein of endless gold chains, now you're locked up tight
Tearing down the middle of it, splitting it right in half
Bobbing up and down the waves like a runaway slave on a Huck Finn raft
Take your wife, take your family, take your gun, running through the woods And the burned out neighborhoods, looking for someone
A member of your tribe, a place you can hide 'til the war has begun
'Cause in the fields before the flood, you'll be spilling blood like a native son
Where you gonna run to? There ain't no underground
If only you could fly, you'd cut across the sky like a rifle round
Oh, who are your people and where is your homeland?
'Cause they're dying side by side at the river of pride
Where we tried to take a stand
Take your wife, take your family, take your gun, running through the woods And the burned out neighborhoods, looking for someone
A member of your tribe, a place you can hide 'til the war has begun
'Cause in the fields before the flood, you'll be spilling blood like a native son
John Hiatt - Native Son
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ_4fQNFL84
Nice.
Your underestimation is a joy to behold.
@Kato, Pitchfork Pat is a genius.
paul needs to spend some time in china/russia/etc. and see that while the US system needs some fixing, it's FAR from lawless.
suckomei
You forgot the sarcastic marking.
Or work for the Govt.
Wait for the civil forfeiture...Wait for it....Wait for it... Your conversion is imminent
Roberts is dead on. Anyone that cannot see it has their head in the sand.
Where is Jon Corzine?
When a politically connected wanker and Wall Street get bailed out for their crimes of corruption and immorality there is no rule-of-law, and no reason to work.
If that ever sinks in with the sheeple toiling away to pay Obamacare premiums and get nothing on their savings the French Revolution will become a picnic.
Not holding my breath, but if they don't keep the Ponzi propped and the spice flowing it will be epic.
I could slit Corzines throat and eat breakfast while he bled out in front of me and I would call that a perfect day.
What if he farted on your oatmeal?
What if he farted oatmeal?
zorba THE GREEK
I GET SO EXCITED WHEN YOU TALK DIRTY LIKE THAT. i AM A VOYEUR, Can I watch?
Based on the headline, I think Mr. Roberts under-estimates the people.
I got eaten alive, the last time I challenged Mr. Roberts...
He's correct. There's way too much law.
Gov lately has really upped it's game on social media comment bots. Youtubes and things like that critical of gov are met by them, comments on the situation in oregon are almost unanimously in favor of gov. It's fake.
No shit?
It is not Russia that created ISIS. It is the good old criminal US Government. The same people that steal from their citizens and oppress every country they come in contact with. They drone innocent children in other countries, they let criminals like Hillary run around breaking the law and they reward her by pushing her towards the highest office in the USA. Criminal bankers are rewarded and never jailed. I can go on for days. This is not the same USA it used to be. How does someone like Obama even get elected. What an absolute idiot! Im embarassed to be an American, truly embarassed.
To quote John B Wells: ISIS is USUS. What else is new? C'mon, did you really buy the BS of Argos, Zero Dark Thirty, etc. The only bunny I know is real is the Donnie Darko bunny because I seem him everytime I take my SSRIs with a flouridated water chaser.
It is not Russia that created ISIS. It is the good old criminal US Government. The same people that steal from their citizens and oppress every country they come in contact with. They drone innocent children in other countries, they let criminals like Hillary run around breaking the law and they reward her by pushing her towards the highest office in the USA. Criminal bankers are rewarded and never jailed. I can go on for days. This is not the same USA it used to be. How does someone like Obama even get elected. What an absolute idiot! Im embarassed to be an American, truly embarassed.
CORZINE!
SCOTUS is lawless...
PERIOD!
Oh fuck it! Go with the flow and make money. CXW and GEO are going to clean up in the new world order and they have 8% divs to boot. Round out your portfolio with water utilities in areas where water is at a premium and you will be one of the elite as opposed to the sheeple who are relying on 401(k)s overly invested in FANG, their overprice four walls and a roof, and their steady paycheck.
You Norks.
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Did you have to study to be a scumbag or did it just come naturally?
Maybe if you studied a little, you wouldn't be working for a pay check in a warm body job and living in a 99.9% mortgaged overpriced shack which will have less resale value than what you owe on your note.
So when do the Bentley & the Lambo get out of the body shop there Elijah?
I'm thrifty - Porsche Cayenne for the significant other, Porsche Boxster for myself, and a 1995 Chevy Suburban for the dogs.
Bentleys are overpriced technical POS for insecure Europhiles (Range Rovers fall in this category as well) and though Lamborghinis might give you and trash from the hood hard ons, they give secure individuals who didn't grow up in the gutters of America nothing but head aches.
Well, for someone so 'thrifty' as yourself, I'm sure that little collection there has really 'appreciated' in value over time. Hell, I'm sure they started appreciating in value the moment you rolled out of the dealership.
I'm sure that you pray every day HOPING you get into an accident, so that those hefty insurance premiums will pay out & not be wasted.
If you are buying vehicles for appreciation then you are a bigger moron than I thought you were. Then again, the 1995 Suburban has appreciably more utility than anything in any price range on the market.
PS Progressive only charges me for 100/300 policies on all three vehicles $1800/year (with their full payment discount). If you think those are hefty premiums, you might want to think about getting a real job which pays you in real money a/o/t minimum wage and all the big Macs you can eat.
Why bother working when I can simply kick back and watch you & your moron friends hustle around playing leapfrog with each other until you drive the Ponzi of your own making into the ground? For that I don't need Big Macs. Popcorn will do.
So tell me. The day that it all vaporizes, which goes first in the firesale? The Porsche? The Dog? or the significant other?
Imagine it! This vampire pulling a plow with his overrated volkswagen... I find it quite pastoral.
Bonehead, he was referring to you.
Seems to me YOU are more guilty of your ragging than you think.
Free Corzine!!!
JOHN TRUDELL - THE FUTURISTIC POLICE STATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itqFOBzLbyw
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rip
States have always been "Lawless", unless that state is completely transparent - the whole point of secrecy in government and intelligence is to protect themselves from prosecution when committing criminal acts.
The thing that made this lawlessness so blatant and systemic was, to me, this culture of "Exceptionalism" that became a buzz word for excusing criminality and evil acts during the past couple of decades. - A kind of moral relativism where it is only a hysterical crime if somebody else does it. It's not murder if the shooter carries a cheap tin badge. It's not fraud if the fraudster runs a powerful bank. It's not theft and murder if our close ally commits it. It's not propaganda if it's from our msm. It's not a war crime if the criminals wear our uniform. That sort of thing.
This culture of blatant lawlessness from the very top on the international stage was bound to trickle down to the local level. Corruption and fraud covered in the sweet delusion of chanting USA #1 or the sour warmongering hatred towards others broadcast 24/7 in the msm hungrily encourages this exceptionalism and makes lawlessness not merely a worrying endemic of DC and Wall St., but American culture through its core.
Lawyers don't practice law anymore they make "deals". It's a joke. It's so corrupt it's nothing more than a shake down operation.
This guy is smart!
Lawyers.....they don't call them liers for hire for nuthin'.
Shakedown huh? Take for example ..
You're in Geneva, Switzerland. You're on business. Maybe some time for pleasure later on ..
Before you know it, the Surete have arrested you on preliminary charges of ..........
get this ..
UNPAID TAX BILL IN ....................... WISCONSIN ..
You are in cell #130 at Prison du Bois Mermet, CH du Bois - Gentil, 1018 Lausanne, Switzerland ....................... for 134 days. You are not specifically awaiting trial in any Swiss court. Your offense is supposedly in ........................ WISCONSIN!
https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp (Read Me First)
Don't worry Dr. Roberts, the establishment has no choice but to abide by my laws because I am much smarter than they are, and they don't stand a chance of ever catching up in this life, or any other. Since March 10th 2008 Bear Stearns time New York shitty my boot has been firmly planted on their collective necks and I am not about to remove it anytime soon. Moreover, they cannot achieve so-called Alpha(tm) and are suffering under their collective ignorance of the Beta they are left with to ruminate on until the cows come home for all I give a shit.
Note: The establishment is frightened, lost, bewildered, and scared out of their wits when it comes to their earned cumuppance in light of 2008 judgements rendered. Everything you witness from here on out is but institutional fear & paranoia.
If only Weyerhaeuser and Monsanto had been allowed to Citizens United a few governors, they could have clearcut the Redwoods years ago and these cattle grazing patriots would have the pastures they need. And, patriot ranchers are always a friend to the bear and wolf! In the name of Ayn Rand, only in pulp fiction.
I take it you reside in a city because you sure don't know much about farming and ranching.
PCR needs to read:
How Corrupt Is the American Government? Posted by: George Washingtonthe news, some guy murdered his pregnant daughter and half buried her in the basement while nearby the police arrested a priest for buying crack in the vicinity of an unrelated drug surveillance operation. the guy who killed his daughter is lawyered up and has not been arrested. the news, some guy shot his wife in front
of his two kids. the news.
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Modern Humans are Walking Dead! ~John Trudell
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJnApEtg1I
Hey, Hillary is and has been Law abiding! This video shows how well she has behaved over the years. http://yournationnews.com/hillary-camp-freaking-out-as-this-video-goes-v...
I must add that the video contains graphic images (of Hillary Clinton's face) that some viewers may find disturbing. Viewer discretion advised.