{"id":1628,"date":"2009-09-22T09:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T16:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/the-roots-of-american-order\/"},"modified":"2009-09-25T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:06:22","slug":"the-roots-of-american-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/the-roots-of-american-order\/","title":{"rendered":"The Roots Of American Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Origin<\/a>\"Origin<\/a>\"Origin<\/a><\/p>\n

Russell Kirk, “The Roots Of American Order,” pp. 187-189.<\/p>\n

No question that the “enumeration of civil liberties in the Constitution” has “endangered” many civil rights belonging to many un-anticipated parties not specified in the Constitution.\u00a0 Hence the ever-accelerating expansion of civil rights litigation.<\/p>\n

And no question that “political power decree of positive laws without reference to general consent has led to the evasion, defiance, and diminished respect” for statutory law resulting in the “substitution of force for justice,” –another trend in law and enforcement that continues to accelerate.<\/p>\n

These trends do not lead to more or better justice, equity or fairness.\u00a0 They substitute the rule of men for the rule of law by shrinking the domain of liberty in human action, and eliminating opportunities for moral choices.\u00a0 While it’s all done in the name of the “public good,” ironically, people who act without making a moral choice cannot be good.\u00a0 Coercion and force nullify morality.\u00a0 Morality requires free choice.\u00a0 Without a moral choice, people cannot choose the good over the bad or evil.\u00a0 The best they can do is obey–the moral stature of a “good doggy.”
\n\"Good<\/a>
\nPerhaps the left tolerates Islamic submission<\/a> so well because they’re both systems of obedience.<\/p>\n

Each day the news is full of reports of what people liberated from their moral responsibility have done to other people, to the world and to themselves.\u00a0 People who do not experience morality are disconnected from justice or concern for mankind.\u00a0 All the totalitarian systems – Marxism, Islam, Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Progressivism, Gaia, and their numerous combinations and derivatives – take us toward amorality in the name of their concepts of the public good.\u00a0 All of them are self-defeating as they collaterally damage innocents and non-believers.\u00a0 All of them institutionalize corruption.<\/p>\n

Freedom, voluntary choice, limited government, judicial equity, all of these traditions preserve moral choice and enforce moral responsibility.\u00a0 There will always be bad men and women.\u00a0 Inflexible totalitarian systems do not contain self-correction mechanisms.\u00a0 They insulate bad people and bad policies from their negative consequences.<\/p>\n

Liberty is messy, but it’s still better than everything else because it allows us to evolve.\u00a0 The left only want evolution they can control.\u00a0 The right recognizes the fact that individuals know best how to direct their own evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russell Kirk, “The Roots Of American Order,” pp. 187-189. No question that the “enumeration of civil liberties in the Constitution” has “endangered” many civil rights belonging to many un-anticipated parties not specified in the Constitution.\u00a0 Hence the ever-accelerating expansion of civil rights litigation. And no question that “political power decree of positive laws without reference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1628","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-constitution","7":"category-cult-politics","8":"category-morality","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}