Broad meadows

In this series, I have been writing that things such as traffic enforcement rules and other mechanisms like them exist only to serve themselves. In so doing, they pervert justice by punishing those who do no harm, immediate or corrosive(more on that later). And given the size of police departments, one would think the streets were awash in blood. But where do we see police cruisers? Along the sides of roads. In between highways. Pulling over cars for spurious and arbitrary reasons.

At the same time, our population has been attacked by its own government using the COVID vaccine. By its own admission, tens of thousands of people have died within 48 hours of receiving it. And also by their own admission, that number represents only a small percentage of actual instances. Has anyone in any official capacity responded to these crimes against humanity. No, they are too busy trying to cover up the fraud, waste and abuse that the current administration seems to be uncovering.

So what makes for good law? The Ten Commandments represent what I would consider the standard for all law. Perfect law. It goes beyond the behaviors to be avoided, but the reason they occur. In terms of human governance, it goes beyond what can be imposed by law. Even if a government is able to force someone to say they believe something doesn’t mean that they actually do. For tyrants, the words are enough. For God, you have to mean it. So let take a look at the Ten Commandments.

“You shall have no other gods before me.
“You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below. You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, but showing love to a thousand generations of those who love me and keep my commandments.
“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name.
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
“Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the LORD your God is giving you.
“You shall not murder.
“You shall not commit adultery.
“You shall not steal.
“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” Exodus 20:2-17.

Paul writes in Romans 7:8, “For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” But sin, seizing the opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting.” It is the desire to have others possessions that causes many to break the other commandments. It’s what causes people to lie, cheat, steal and murder.

What law is meant to do is to, through the threat of punishment, is to dissuade people acting on any covetous desires by harming another in the above commandments. In each of the commandments from “You shall not murder” to “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor” do a definitive harm to someone’s body, property or falsely, their reputation. What this means is that there is no need for law beyond these harms. I’ll look at the other commandments in the next writing.