Nevertheless, the essential question is this: what happens to the land
when
the taxes remain unpaid? Confiscation, and transfer to Europeans, I
would
predict with a certainty.
This court has taken the firm tact that there is no higher moral
authority
by which the state can be judged, and that the state (whether
expressing
the majority will, or not) is supreme. Such is tantamount to
legitimizing
totalitarianism, as has happened identically in other geographic
and
historical settings. A sign of the times is that Time magazine is
"troubled"
that East German guards who were "only following orders" of their
state when
they murdered people trying to escape that nation, have been tried
and found
guilty now that that particular lawless regime fell. In the
emerging
American consciousness, it is "troubling" that there should be any
higher
moral authority that constrains the state's will to power. That
is
tantamount to legitimizing any action the state may choose to take,
and
depriving any individual of the right to refuse to carry out
wickedness.
No state system should think it a law unto itself, whether called
a democracy,
a monarchy or a people's republic. Any time there has been a
failure to
realize this, terrible atrocities have followed, without
exception. And
unless such thinking is reversed, this continent will be no
different, either.
The major problem is that such thinking is unlikely to be reversed, in
the
absence of great consequent suffering, since the majority of people
know
of no higher power than that of the state, moral or otherwise. This
is
how materialism in the absence of spirituality leads inevitably
into
bondage, as there is nothing left but pragmatism. Unfortunately, by
its
very definition, pragmatism has no basis for any prior principles to
guide
it, nor any ability therefore to gauge the consequences of its
actions.
It expresses the essence of "no restraint" when it wields absolute
power.
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