The Judiciary Is Dead

[davsel]

Excellent read:
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=221399

There is no longer any doubt at all; the American Experiment is now dead and what remains is the question of whether the people will rise and put a stop to the crapfest that we are experiencing or whether our nation will be overtaken by the likes of a Pol Pot, Hitler or Mao.

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A founding principle of justice is that when one is wronged you have recourse to the courts which exist to provide a check and balance on the improper behavior both of private individuals and the government. Without that check and balance alleged society is reduced to tit-for-tat recourse, or worse, preemptive and often violent action taken by those who believe they have been wronged.


It is for this reason that drug dealers shoot one another on street corners rather than sue over contractual disputes or lay charges for theft when one rips off the other; barred from the use of the civil and criminal systems of justice due to our idiotic insistence on prohibiting their trade in the first place they turn to the only means of justice available to them.


Our civil society depends on a clean and mature arbitration procedure by which results flow from acts and principles, not the other way around. To eviscerate that ability is to invite and promote preemptive and retributive violence both against private parties and against the government as the civilized alternative and superior means of settling disputes has been corrupted.
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[Milt]

Thanks for posting this, a typical spot-on analysis by Denninger.