Will today's 'perverted rule of law' be the ruin of us all?

To the editor:

Many of us cheer evil trends of our day, the rhetoric of politicians cheaply espousing words such as "the rule of law." Their words describe the essence of liberty without morality to back them up. Today's politicians are effective because we the people are filled with cultural perversion. We know not what true law is because it remains almost non-existent like an oasis in the middle of the desert. Schooling should require the reading of Frederick Bastiat's book The Law and measure the law today against his wisdom, in 1848:

"The Law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The Law, I say not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become a weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!"

The biblical principles in the minds of the countryman that wrote "[w]e are endowed by our Creator with certain unalienable rights - life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," doesn't exist in the American mind of today. Instead, toleration of all the pillars of Americanism, Judaeo/Christian ethics, that birthed honoring life, liberty and property have gradually been surrendered to a new religion called humanistic wokeism. The same wokeism that was the foundation of the Marxist states of Nazi Germany, the U.S.S.R. and Red China. All three political systems providing histories of blood, death and misery for hundreds of millions. Yet, the powers that be shelter these warnings from the past, perverting and limiting information. Only courageous publishers outside of mainstream control provide the truths that will save our nation.

Americans tolerate the deceptive nature of most politicians who like the sound of demanding the "rule of law," but in office forget this foundation of liberty. Remembering the gulags of Stalin and Hitler's death camps is rarely taught, therefore the toleration of evil has been progressing. The Jeffrey Epstein affairs hides behind the evil nature of the Washington, D.C. - the Deep State behind the Deep State is threatened . All the stumbling blocks defending evil are in action to enforce the ruling law that perpetuates tyranny: "rules for thee but not for me ."

Bastiat's courage must be reborn in the mindset of Americans: "It is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow citizens to it." Would you believe that Ben Franklin, the least religious delegate at the Constitutional Convention proposed this wisdom to be in the Constitution: "Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God?" Franklin's words, backed by moral courage, resulted in liberty enjoyed by our people for 250 years. Shall we embrace his wisdom to save the Republic for another 250 years? Or shall we follow the footprints of tyranny where law becomes a weapon to control all the people?

- Russ Payne,

Merrimack