3 ms·
> The law has become an illegitimate tool of violenence to oppress any who dare oppose the state. The state controls the law, so anything it does that is not a
by stefantalpalaru 11y ago
> The law has become an illegitimate tool of violenence to oppress any who dare oppose the state.
The state controls the law, so anything it does that is not already legal can be easily made so.
> The only solution is wide scale defiance.
Defy those who hold a monopoly on violence on your own peril.
- avmich 11y ago> The state controls the law, so anything... In the US there is a finer distinction. "State" can be understood as "all politics combined", and then yes, state does controls the law, and does that by the definition. Or you can consider state be "government" - with a set of hired specialists (ministers) under the guidance of elected official (president) - to be different from people representatives (Congress), which are actually controlling the law - and are supposed also to keep an eye on the executive branch.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoIn Italy - and in most of Europe - the executive branch actually makes laws, using a loophole that's supposed to provide quick legislative responses to emergencies, and then strong-arms the legislative into approving them unmodified by asking for a vote of confidence that, if negative, would mean instability (a new government would need to be negotiated and voted by the parliament).