Countless Statutes -- But Hardly a Legitimate Law Among Them

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

August 1, 2011

For a crime to exist, three conditions must be met: There must be criminal intent, a violation of a specific criminal statute, and a victim. Any act failing to meet all three of those criteria cannot legitimately be called a crime.

In any society that can reasonably be described as free, the laws are few in number, clearly stated, easily understood, and difficult to violate; crimes would consist only of an injury to the person or property of another. The Federal Register and the federal criminal code overteem with literally tens of thousands of statutes, enactments, and bureaucratic decrees that carry the force of law.

A spokeswoman for the arm of government calling itself the Justice Department told the Wall Street Journal that there is ?no quantifiable number? of federal criminal statutes, which occupy at least 27,000 pages of the federal code. Furthermore, most recently enacted statutes do not require that prosecutors establish criminal intent on the part of the accused.

The legitimate purpose of the law, John Locke observed, is to enlarge freedom by protecting individual liberty. By that standard, the enactments inflicted on us by the government presuming to rule us aren?t legitimate laws.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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