WHAT IS THE LAW?

     Society cannot exist without a codified law, so stated or so well ingrained that it needs no codification in a formal manner. The law, in every advanced society, seeks to be just, impartial, and contain within it a spirit of the law as well. It is when the law turns dark, unjust and immoral, a conflict of legality and morality, that we come to a critical turnpoint of society. Without a proper law there can be no advancement for that society and in fact, there will be a downturn in the economy, in the living conditions and in the general society at large.
    The law is meant to improve life, yet it can also be twisted so much that it ruins life. yesterday I mentioned the Gulf of Tonkin incident which truly enmeshed us in the disaster of the Vietnam War, a disaster which nearly totally ripped us apart, and today there is mention by a commentator of the similarity between the Gulf "sabotage" and that same incident. Humph!! Too litle, too late? The "law" will be used here to further involve us in a made up situation which so help us all, could very well lead to a WWIII and the end of life as we know it. Can you just imagine the evil configuration of North Korea, Iran, Russia and China as allies against the USA - who will fight without its normal allies and will have to ally itself to Arab countries whose governments and laws are total anathema to the average citizen. Think it hardly likely? Just take a look over to the East Coast, to Washington, DC, to the Oval Office, and tell me again - what is reality, what can happen that once was unthinkable?
     So what do we do with the law. The law can be subverted covertly and overtly. When the Alabama State Legislature votes to effectively ban all abortion save some dramatic risk to the mother's life, and determines it is just oh so proper to demand that a woman carry a baby for nine months, a baby that resulted from rape and/or incest, I wish we could inflict this upon the men who voted for this and upon the women who do so as well, turning traitor to their own. And how many of these holier than thou people actually have had abortions or arranged them for others as they used their funds to make that possible? How many more women are we going to lose to back alley abortions and self attempts at abortion in desperation? How are these unwanted fetuses going to be taken care of, provided for after birth? See, no one ever takes that into account, as the same people cut the funds of the safety net, cut funds for food, for housing even as they demand their cruel and unjust and immoral laws be obeyed. And add the topping of threatening to put the doctors who do the right thing into prison for life!! Yup, just adds to the developing crisis of enough doctors by jailing those who are compassionate and know the difference between legality and morality.
     Covertly, we have a huge developing crisis that will remain with us long after the Demented One and his allies are out of office - may that day come soon! Using the stooges of the Senate, Trump and his minions are pushing through incompetent, biased, hate filled, backward thinking losers as judges, enough so that we have over 130 of these dangerous incompetents who will fill the benches for at least two decades and more are coming down the line.
     The law said we had to return the 'property' of the person of the slave to their owners. The law said that Jews were not human, hence had to be turned in to authorities when found and used as fodder for the maws of Nazi Germany. The law said there are to be no abortions. The law said that birth control was illegal. The law said it was okay to hang a twelve year old for the horrendous crime of stealing a loaf of bread due to ravaging hunger.
     A character stated famously that "the law is an ass". Yes, and no. There are dumb laws that have remained on the books for too long. And there are dangerous laws that are being revived and once again placed on the books. It is now okay to arrest a person for the crime of giving water and food, aid, to an illegal immigrant found in the desert or on the road. It is now legal to rip families apart, to keep people right here in America in secret holding jails, no one allowed to know where they are or what is happening to them. It is now okay to 'lose' children. It is now okay to throw people in makeshift cages under highways, to deny medical care to children, thus allowing them to die.
     What is the law and what is it meant to do and be? What do we do when the law is unjust, is immoral, threatening our physical safety as well as our immortal soul, our sense of decency? It is called civil rebellion. It is called activism. It is called decency. It is called compassion. It is called the right thing to do.
     We are going to have to make a choice very soon, within the next year and a half. Do we get off this road back to barbarity, to cruelty, to unjust laws, dangerous laws, or do we remain cowering in our rooms, afraid to speak out, living in a dark and hateful and hatefilled society?
     The proper answer to the question of 'what is the law' remains in jeopardy. We, the people, have to choose. We, the people, have to decide if we are going to turn 'property' back, be it one race, ethnicity or gender, or are we going to run that Railroad again? Or even better, how can we avert this unjust and immoral yet legal state of being? We had better find the answer to that question and many others real soon. We had better make up our minds and know what we choose carefully, fully understanding the consequences. Once again and as for always, the choice is ours,the decision is ours, the need to act is ours. So......