LAW

Ecclesiastes 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 7:7 For oppression makes a wise man mad, And a bribe corrupts the heart.

This is just opinion, it is an attempt at logical reasoning. There will probably be many with more reasoning power who will point to glaring holes in my argument. However we must each make our own way through the muddle of the world, trying to fathom the complexities, many of which are there just to baffle us, as a way of extracting more money from those whose entire existence seems to be on the treadmill of hard work.

I was asked to sign a form, it listed a whole raft of tick box items, to which you had to tick and sign. Some of these were what they could do if you did not comply with the nanny state course, one was for ten pounds, a lot if you have no job. The last was; that should you fail to turn up, they would charge you for the cost of the course. They noted I had not signed the form. I said I could not sign because they were asking me to be liable for an unspecified amount. Even if they specified the amount I would not have signed because I did not have the money to pay, even basic bills were a push and various kind folks were helping me. The distance and time of year could easily have caused transportation issues, apart from the fact I had already gotten temporary jobs during the recession (depression) so being on a getting a job type course did seem a bit well you can guess!!!

This instance got me to thinking about other things to which we agree yet we really do not have enough knowledge to agree with full or in many cases even partial understanding. Even law professionals, Police, Judges, Lawyers and Solicitors who are immersed in the law would be hard pressed to find one of their member who could know all the active laws. Now by laws we are colloquially referring mostly to the tens of thousands of statues that we are regularly reminded, are the law. Now we are also reminded that ignorance of the law is no defence, and this from the legal profession who themselves must at least in part be ignorant of the law, unless they all claim to know every law and statute? So how can we agree to be bound by the law, that is stand under its authority, if we do not understand all the law? Isn't this just like signing to agree to be bound by a contract where we may be liable for an unknown amount?

Even the den of vipers, colloquially known as banks, have to give us all the terms and conditions that apply, and update us when they change these so we can in principle at least withdraw our contract with them should the new terms not be to our satisfaction. Yet how many of us are regularly updated with new terms and conditions from the government each time an new law(statute) is enacted? Now they may claim it is impossible it would cost too much, so how are we expected not to be ignorant of the law, most of us do not have the time, money and resources to study the law, to the same extent a legal professional does, and is it possible for them to know all the law? When we play a board game, the rules are generally simple, easy to remember and easy to understand. Yet still folks decline to play because they find the game to hard? So why do we play the governments board game, because we have to, because we seem to have no choice, and how can we play? Do some cheat? Yes. Do some lead a very restricted life in the hope that by doing this they will not do anything wrong, even though they have no idea, or little knowledge of what they can and can not do, they do not know their rights, and even if they did, many rights are routinely denied.

It is almost like a game that is beneficial to those who make the laws and those whose profession is involved with the law. The more complex the game the more we need others to help us play. Of course this does not come cheap. Why else would you disarm good folks, if not to make it safer for bad folks working conditions.

If we can not know all the law, surely when asked do you stand under the authority of the law how can you, if you don't know what it is you are agreeing to? God tells us not to bear false witness, would it not be false to claim we know the law when we don't. Most folks would struggle with the ten commandments let alone the tens of thousands of governments commandments. How can they enforce the law, if even they do not know all their laws, how can there be justice? If they say do you UNDERSTAND you must truthfully say NO. If asked Why? I have not been trained in the law, so how can I understand the law?

If you don't know every law how can you be in compliance with the law? And for those who say that some laws are specific and so we do not need to know all the laws. How can you know which ones apply to you if you do not know them all?