{"id":189299,"date":"2023-10-03T09:20:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=189299"},"modified":"2023-10-03T09:20:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T13:20:05","slug":"the-western-world-is-now-a-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=189299","title":{"rendered":"<h1>The Western World Is Now a Tyranny<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->Paul Craig Roberts<\/p>\n<p>America\u2019s reputation as \u201cthe land of the free\u201d is rooted in the Anglo-Saxon legal and political tradition, not in diversity and multiculturalism.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Law as a shield of the people instead of a weapon in the hands of rulers is a British achievement that Britain\u2019s American colonies inherited.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It was the accomplishment of a specific ethnicity known as Anglo-Saxon. Bringing rulers to the same accountability to law as the lowest peasant was a centuries-long process beginning with Alfred the Great in the 9th century and culminating in the Glorious Revolution of 1680.<\/p>\n<p>In this legal tradition law is based in the customs and mores of the people, not on edicts issued from rulers, \u00a0government bureaucrats, regulatory agencies, and activist judges.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Obviously, this conveys an ethnic basis to law.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A Tower of Babel\u2013the fate of all diminishing white countries today\u2013has no common customs and mores and no basis for law other than rulers\u2019 edicts enforced by power.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Western World today the people have lost the protection of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>law as a shield and suffer under rulers who wield law as a weapon. In the United States today demonstrators and rally attendees are turned into \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d and sentenced to prison. \u00a0Even US President Donald Trump is being subjected to four fake felony prosecutions in order to prevent him from being elected president.<\/p>\n<p>During my youth law was seen as a shield of our rights, not as a weapon to be used against us.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>US Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland explained in 1934 that the purpose of law was to discover innocence or guilt, not to dispose of an enemy:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United States Attorney is the representative not of an ordinary party to a controversy, but of a sovereignty whose obligation to govern impartially is as compelling as its obligation to govern at all; and whose interest, therefore, in a criminal prosecution is not that it shall win a case, but that justice shall be done.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>As such, he is in a peculiar and very definite sense the servant of the law, the twofold aim of which is that guilt shall not escape or innocent suffer.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>He may prosecute with earnestness and vigor\u2013and indeed, he should do so.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But, while he may strike hard blows, he is not at liberty to strike foul ones.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is as much his duty to refrain from improper methods calculated to produce a wrongful conviction as it is to use every legitimate means to bring about a just one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson saw it the same way:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics for success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>. . .<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A sensitiveness to fair play is perhaps the best protection against the abuse of power, and the citizen\u2019s safety lies in the prosecutor who tempers zeal with human kindness, who seeks truth and not victims, who serves the law and not factional purposes, and who approaches his task with humility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 1940 Jackson said that unethical prosecutors are a threat to justice because of the danger that the prosecutor<\/p>\n<p>\u201cwill pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted. With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. \u00a0In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him. \u00a0It is in this realm\u2013in which the prosecutor picks some person whom he dislikes or desires to embarrass, or selects some group of unpopular persons and then looks for an offense, that the greatest danger of abuse of prosecuting power lies. \u00a0It is here that law enforcement becomes personal, and the real crime becomes that of being unpopular with the predominant or governing group, being attached to the wrong political view, or being personally obnoxious, or in the way of the prosecutor himself.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Jackson\u2019s 83-year old description of unethical prosecution precisely describes all of the \u201cinvestigations,\u201d impeachments, and indictments of President Trump that have been ongoing since 2016 for 8 years and show no sign of abating. \u00a0The prosecutions of Trump are clearly prosecutions for the purpose of getting rid of a leader who presumes to challenge the ruling establishment. \u00a0The prosecutions of Trump underline the termination in the US of the impartial rule of law.<\/p>\n<p>Today try to find in the US a prosecutor as defined by Sutherland and Jackson. Try to find a prosecutor who has any interest in justice.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>They are only interested in coerced plea bargains in order to build their conviction rate and run for higher office on their name recognition. \u00a0If you dare to go to trial, exculpatory evidence is withheld and prosecutors bribe witnesses to testify against you. The judge is angry because you are adding to his case load. High profile targets such as Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley, Martha Stewart, Donald Trump are favorites even when there is no personal animosity of the prosecutor against them. When the prosecution is driven by animosity, as it is in Trump\u2019s case, it signifies the legal system\u2019s acceptance of law as a weapon, not as an instrument of justice.<\/p>\n<p>Try to find a honest prosecutor or judge prosecuting Trump supporters and sentencing them to tens of years of imprisonment for attending a political rally.\u00a0Unarmed people conducted by police on a tour inside the capital, as the videos released by the House Speaker show, are tried as \u201cinsurrectionists\u201d attempting to overthrow the government and establish a \u201cTrump coup.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 The use<\/span>\u00a0of law as a weapon by the Biden Regime has sent 1,000 American patriots to prison on this false charge. Law schools don\u2019t protest, Bar Associations don\u2019t protest. The judiciary aids the false convictions. The Congress does nothing. \u00a0The media eggs on the false prosecutions.<\/p>\n<p>Every one of these prosecutors and judges are abusing power for the sake of factional politics.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If you don\u2019t know what factional politics is, look it up.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It was defined by our Founding Fathers.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0They feared it would destroy democracy and the rule of law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In my book,\u00a0<em>The Tyranny of Good Intentions<\/em>\u00a0published 23 years ago, I pointed out that \u201claw and order conservatives\u201d enabled government to set aside protective aspects of law in order to easier and more certainly convict the Mafia, drug users, child abusers\u2013whoever the target was at the specific time.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I said that the law that is set aside in the interest of easier conviction is also set aside for the rest of us who are not Mafia, drug and child abusers, and that this conversion of law into a weapon would destroy nine centuries of Anglo-Saxon accomplishment in shielding people from arbitrary prosecution by rulers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This has now happened.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The British who created civil liberty and the Americans who inherited it have lost the protection of law.\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw and order conservatives\u201d determined to incarcerate criminals, \u00a0\u201cpatriotic conservatives\u201d anxious to protect \u201cnational security\u201d from \u201cthe Muslim threat,\u201d and \u00a0woke ideologues determined to demonize and even criminalize white people as racists, while overrunning the ethnic basis of their countries with \u00a0immigrant-invaders, together brought about the destruction of law as a shield of the people.<\/p>\n<p>One can understand the frustration of Americans when criminals escape justice and when the country\u2019s security seems to be undermined by treason. \u00a0But when Americans accepted asset forfeiture laws in order to more easily convict criminals and accepted Presidents Bush and Obama\u2019s claims that the \u201cterrorist threat\u201d justified suspending habeas corpus and due process, they forgot Sir Thomas More\u2019s warning. In\u00a0<em>A Man for All Seasons<\/em>, Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, asks his critic, who is urging him to disregard the protective features of law in order to better pursue wrongdoing, what will happen to the innocent if the law is cut down? When the law turns on us, Sir Thomas asks, \u201cwhere will we stand?\u201d \u00a0This is the question President Trump\u2019s lawyers are pondering, and the question applies to everyone of us. \u00a0If a President of the United States can be ruined because a couple of blacks in positions of power for which they are unqualified \u00a0hate Trump, what protection does law afford the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>You can see the lawlessness everywhere in the US and its Western puppet states.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>A British journalist was arrested for exposing the despicable Trudeau applauding a member of the Nazi SS.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230926\/uk-journo-arrested-for-malinformation-after-exposing-trudeau-applauding-nazi-1113677702.html\">\u00a0https:\/\/sputnikglobe.com\/20230926\/uk-journo-arrested-for-malinformation-after-exposing-trudeau-applauding-nazi-1113677702.html<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>American parents are arrested, even beaten, for protesting at school board meetings that their kids are being brainwashed that they are racists and their daughters are being sexually assaulted in rest rooms by males claiming to be transgendered females despite still having the male sexual apparatus and lusts.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/loudoun-county-father-school-cover-up-bathroom-assault-daughter \u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/fbi-opened-multiple-investigations-into-protesting-parents-gop-lawmakers-say\">\u00a0https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/fairness-justice\/fbi-opened-multiple-investigations-into-protesting-parents-gop-lawmakers-say\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Think about Seth Rich\u2019s murder on the street in Washington D.C.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Seth Rich is the person who is believed to have leaked the Hillary Clinton emails documenting her participation in criminal activity\u00a0<em>about which nothing was done<\/em>.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Seth Rich was found dead on a Washington D.C. street, allegedly, according to the Democrat D.C. police, a victim of a robbery.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Nothing was missing from Rich, not\u00a0his wallet, not his credit cards, not his cell phone.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Some robbery.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>His murder has never been investigated and never will be. A corrupt Democrat \u201cpolice force\u201d has declared a robbery when there is zero evidence of a robbery. An unsolved and non-investigated murder remains.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of investigating a murder, Trump and Trump rally attendees are being framed and incarcerated on false charges. \u00a0It is obvious that the US \u201cJustice\u201d Department has weaponized law. The US Attorney General is serving neither law nor justice. \u00a0He is serving factional politics. He is a disgrace to law. \u00a0The fact that a person devoid of integrity is Attorney General of the United States is all the evidence required to know that the rule of law in America is stone dead.<\/p>\n<p>William Blackstone wrote that weaponized law is tyranny and that when executive power weaponizes law, it is incumbent upon Parliament to impeach and punish the conduct of the government\u2019s \u201cevil and pernicious counselors.\u201d \u00a0The US Congress has taken no such steps, which means the legislature has abdicated its responsibility and assented \u00a0to the establishment of tyranny.<\/p>\n<p>The Empire of Lies has deep-sixed William Blackstone\u2019s \u201crights of Englishmen\u201d embodied in the US Constitution as the Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and the Western world have become a tyranny. This is an unavoidable conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>There is no \u201cthe one\u201d as in the movie\u00a0<em>The Matrix<\/em>\u00a0or \u201cV\u201d as in the movie\u00a0<em>V for Vendetta<\/em>\u00a0to rescue us from tyranny. \u00a0How are we going to escape the tyranny that has descended upon us now that law is weaponized? The Democrats\u2019 indictments of Trump are no different than Stalin\u2019s indictments of Nikolai Bukharin and the Bolsheviks who made the revolution as capitalist spies.<\/p>\n<p>In the framework of Identity Politics imposed on us by liberals and the Democrat Party, the inculcation of hate is the most important element. \u00a0Hate is inconsistent with objective law. \u00a0There can be no hope for a rule of law until Identity Politics is purged and unity among the people restored.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Robert Jackson himself descended to the use of law as a weapon in his role as chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. \u00a0See:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/08\/11\/tyranny-at-nuremberg\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2017\/08\/11\/tyranny-at-nuremberg\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-5.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-130830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-5-259x388.jpeg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-5-259x388.jpeg 259w, https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-5.jpeg 291w\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/10\/01\/the-western-world-is-now-a-tyranny\/\">https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2023\/10\/01\/the-western-world-is-now-a-tyranny\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}