Thirty Days in the Hole - You Can't Take On the Regime Directly.

So you think you can beat the system, the legal system. They've done you wrong, and you are going to sue the agency and show them a thing or two.  You know what they did was unjust, and you are right on the law and the facts. All you need to do is get in front of the judge and tell the truth.  The judge will have to see the correctness of your argument and rule in your favor.  

Well, it does not work that way.  Clients think I am exaggerating when I warn them, "Suffer any wrong to be done to you, rather than go there."  (Dickens, Bleak House)  Then, when they come out of court, battered and beaten, shaken to the core, they often say that I didn't tell them the half of how bad it would be.  They forget that the judge is on the same team as the rest of the gummint, and they don't know about the barriers to accountability which they have built such as a gem called "sovereign immunity", meaning, "the king can do no wrong."

There was a time near America's founding when few persons ever dealt with the legal system in their entire lifetimes. Now, the system has made everything a matter of law:  a couple kids fighting on the playground, divorce, owning a gun, possessing an herb, driving a car, owning a toilet, or just about anything else.  In fact, you cannot likely name one thing that the law does not regulate in America right now.  

The reality is that we live in a police state.  Defy it, and you get 30 days in the Hole.  You can't fight SWAT teams with guns, judges, and prisons, and a willingness to use them. ("The Hole" is slang for solitary confinement in jail, usually along with nasty mistreatment by the guards.)  And when the system messes up, they don't pay for it - you do. 

A French bureaucrat named Etienne de la Boetie, (1530-1563, pronounced Ay-TIEN de La Bwet-tie), came up with a theory about involuntary servitude.  He stated that: 

It is therefore the inhabitants themselves who permit, or, rather, bring about, their own subjection, since by ceasing to submit they would put an end to their servitude. A people enslaves itself, cuts its own throat, when, having a choice between being vassals and being free men, it deserts its liberties and takes on the yoke, gives consent to its own misery, or, rather, apparently welcomes it.

We have enslaved ourselves, and a large portion of our populace ridicules any attempt to cut the size and scope of government.  If you don't believe me, check out the Huffington Post sometime.  In the preceding link, a bunch of smug statists ridicule some Maine Republicans for voting to adhere to the written limits in our constitution, without ever explaining why they despise such behavior.  I'll explain for them.  Their unstated premise is:  "Expand government, and don't take my goodies away.  Those who want freedom are the enemy."

The reality is that most people at most times in history have chosen slavery and servitude over liberty and individual responsibility.  HuffPo dolts are just doing what Greeks, Romans, Slavs, Europeans, and many others have done throughout recorded time.  They willingly took the yoke of tyrants upon themselves.  And they actually felt pain when the yoke was broken and lifted.  Rome mourned Nero. Many Russians still mourn the death of Josef Stalin, the most monstrous mass murderer of all time after China's Mao Tse Tung.  The U.S. mourned FDR.

Our permanent parasite class, in choosing a yoke for themselves, have also fixed it around the necks of those of us who have to pay for their barbarism and indolence.  Our leaders have much to gain from encouraging this dependence, and so they pander and get elected by promising to give everyone two shirts off your back. It works well for demagogues like Ted Kennedy, Robert Byrd, and Strom Thurmond, who each stayed in the U.S. Senate for over 50 years, using that tactic, and disguising it as "compassion".

The enemies of liberty are now militant in every way against the friends of liberty.  They demand we pay for their free lunch or else.  We must license our every possession, or else.  We must bow to the gods of government, or else.  Or else, what?  Thirty days in the hole.

How do we then throw off tyranny?  That is the theme of this blog - Free the Law.  We will clearly trumpet  the answers to that question in great length in future posts. It involves finding ways to withdraw our consent to be placed in involuntary servitude.

As a practical matter, we will have to implement massive education of the citizens on the subject of how to start to think about liberty, since all such thoughts seem long lost.  Once we begin to start thinking about the unthinkable, we need a mass-movement of non-violent resistance to tyranny which begins to toss out every politician and popinjay who continues to grow, rather than to shrink government.  Finally, we must explore the political secession of a chunk of the U.S. as a viable option.

In the meantime, just don't try to take on the government head on.  You will lose big, and end up doing your thirty days or more in the hole.