World Peace and the Scourge of Lawlessness

The Scourge of Lawlessness

We have always had laws to guide us.  When we first formed together as tribes we did so mainly for mutual protection.  We granted our leaders the power to direct our lives through a framework of rights and responsibilities to insure the safety, success and stability of the group.

As our tribes grew these rights and responsibilities were codified into laws which afforded the weak protection from the strong, granted rights and privileges and assessed penalties and punishment for the disobedience of the covenants which defined our place in society.

The respect and obedience with which we observe and comply with our mutually agreed upon laws afford us all with the surety that if we conduct our selves and our business within the proscribed bounds of the law we can expect a certain level of protection from predation by the those who neither respect the law, nor abide by its restraints.

For some of us, blessed to be living in the developed world, this willingness to obey the law and conduct our lives within its confines has led to a society relatively free from wholesale graft and corruption, relatively free from the demoralizing and destabilizing effects of nepotism, crony-ism, corporate abuses and political malfeasance.

Sad to say, to many of us living on this planet, this is not the case and the law is merely a thing to keep us cowed by fear, and a shield to provide the elite and well-connected with a smokescreen to rape, pillage and plunder as they will. 

Until these regimes of institutionalized injustice are dealt with, until injustice and oppression are eradicated and liberty and justice restored, none of us, regardless of where we live, will be free from their adverse effects. 

Until all of us are free, none of us truly will be…

A unified World Federation of Nations, along with a respected, protected and enforceable Human Bill of Rights will provide us with a society within which we can all flourish and prosper in peace.