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Title: Rising for the judge, bowing to the state
Source: Lew Rockwell
URL Source: http://www.lewrockwell.com/lora/m.lora57.html
Published: Nov 18, 2008
Author: Manuel Lora
Post Date: 2008-11-18 06:24:06 by Ada
Keywords: None
Views: 291
Comments: 21

When one walks into a business, most often you are greeted. As part of treating customers as their very livelihood, companies usually enact policies that make it a requirement for employees to acknowledge the arrival of a client or customer.

Imagine, however, if instead of getting a "hello" or "good morning," the manager of the store asks you to greet him. Further, imagine if the manager holds you at gunpoint and threatens you with imprisonment. Assuming you could escape, chances are that you’d never go back to that store. Yet this is what happens in the courts.

Virtually everyone in the courtroom has to rise when the judge enters. Failure to do so might result in contempt of court – you can get a fine or be sentenced to jail time for your audacity. This is, of course, absurd. First of all, government courts are financed through taxation. People who do not use the system at all, for example, still have to pay. This is a form of redistribution, also known as socialism. Aside from the fact that the resources to run the system are extracted aggressively, often the accused are victims rather than victimizers.

Laws and ordinances regulating peaceful drug or firearm possession or usage, municipal codes regulating assembly, zoning, prostitution and gambling, for example, violate no rights and therefore have no victims. Thus, when an innocent person is brought (violently or through the threat thereof) to one of those government courts, the last thing one expects is to be further humiliated by having to stand for the judge. If anything, the judge should be kissing the defendant’s feet and begging for forgiveness.

We should not be surprised that the state does whatever possible to ascertain its aggressive political power in every instance; the courtroom is not an exception. Perhaps in the old days it was customary to rise for the judge. So what? Today, however, I see this not as a gesture of respect but as a demand for obedience. The judge, a state bureaucrat, has no authority over anyone. Prove that the judge and the court deserve any respect. After all, they were the ones (along with the legislative and executive branches) to kidnap people from their homes, families and places of employment, only to be dragged to face "justice." Show that, especially in the case of victimless crimes, the defendant should stand for the judge. The concept of contempt of court, so long as the state holds a monopoly over this institution, is a farce. I believe it is the court, along with all the thugs it employs, who is in contempt.

Anyone willing to show the violence of the court by refusing to obey is a hero. Rising for the judge is bowing to the state.

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#10. To: Ada (#0)

This writer is just another example of what is wrong in this country. Showing respect is good manners, something the country has damned near lost. It takes along with it civility and a host of other positives that make the world a better place to live.

So what, he says? The dumb ass hasn't lived long enough to remember that society was more civilized not long aqo.....and it isn't getting better, and won't get any better with the likes of him 'in charge'.

rowdee  posted on  2008-11-18   11:33:40 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#20. To: rowdee (#10)

This writer is just another example of what is wrong in this country. Showing respect is good manners, something the country has damned near lost.

this article is written in responce to this court case. Watch the videos in the link and tell me this judge deserves to be respected. This judge aka gangbanger with a gavel deserves to be run out of town on a rail and his armed bodyguards deserve the same fate. The judge is an example of whats wrong with this cuntry they seem to think we work for them and that they can make us bow down and grovel before thier almighty presence. its suppose to be the exact opposite and until these jackbooted thugs respect the constitution there will not be any respect shown to them period

http://freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi? ArtNum=90921&Disp=0

freepatriot32  posted on  2008-11-18   17:08:24 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#21. To: freepatriot32 (#20)

I won't waste my time reading and watching, freepatriot. There's a right way to get the guy removed if he's doing wrong from the bench. No one wants to take a proper course....... I'm not saying the judge is good or bad, right or wrong. Doesn't matter. What does matter is that each generation in 'merika gets worse and worse as it moves along the path to the gutter.

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