Broad meadows

A line from a movie that has spurred a lot of thought for me and captures the essence of good governance. In a scene from the movie “First Knight”. King Arthur has invited one of his previous knights, Malagant, to a meeting. Malagant sought kingship for himself and broke ranks with Arthur to do so.
In this scene, Malagant says, “Other men live by other laws,” and asks “or is the law of Camelot to rule the whole world?”

To which Arthur replies, “Either what we hold as good, right and true is good, right and true, under God, or we’re just another robber tribe.” In that simple statement he says something profoundly true: one that there is an ultimate justice (and it’s not just death) and two, that principles are important and unchanging. If we deviate from that method of governance then everything is arbitrary, at the mercy of His Majesty. And that unchecked power that believes that it is unanswerable to anyone or anything is free from moral restraint, to the harm of many. This is why false worldviews like Islam and atheism always tend toward oppression, the argument can’t be won any other way than by force.

Governments need division and fear of large threats to exist in the state they are in now. But I think most people are waking up to the fact that the biggest threat to humanity is human governance, itself. I think the flood of immigrants into this country combined with lenient, if any, sentencing is a tacit admission that they are not needed. At least not in their current form.They need crime to flourish in order to justify their existence. It’s one of the reasons they make so many useless laws, laws meant to support the state.

One way they do this is by making laws that concern the means by which a harm is committed. This makes little sense. There’s mail fraud, computer fraud, insurance fraud, but the thing to be adjudicated is the fraud, a deceptive means inflicting financial loss, not whether there should be mail, computers or insurance. This is especially true as it relates to things like first and second amendment rights.

But there is a king coming and we know him as Jesus Christ our Lord. You can “no kings “ all you want, but that’s going to happen. And justice and righteousness will be the scepter of his throne.