Law – it always sounds so enticing. “We are a country of laws” – words that are
often brandished by the authorities. It
is though interesting to me to ask the question of those same authorities – do
they believe in their own words?! I ask
this as it often seems to be the case that the people that make the laws in
this country are the first ones to break them.
Yes, there is a parliament in the country and it busies itself with producing
laws. Although to be more precise, it is
preoccupied with copying and plagiarizing the laws of other countries. And they do that with absolutely no
shame. Even before starting to prepare
the proposed law to become legislation, it is actually being derived from
another’s work.
The question is then, can a law that is prepared like this
actually be considered supreme? Can it
gain genuine respect? Would a person
writing (copying) it have genuine respect for both its content and spirit? I think not.
Ask the further question – who are the people sitting in parliament
now?! Ministers, high ranking officials,
those who are part of the close circle around the president, his relatives and
sycophant “art workers.” These are the
same people who readily violate laws – again, minsters, MPs, bureaucrats and
the President’s close circle.
There is a famous line from a film: “I prepared the sword, it
won’t cut me.” And those violators of
the law live in accordance with the very same principles. That is, since I have copied the law, it
won’t affect me. And really, the sad
reality is that it does not.
Our MPs only ever discharge their duties effectively in just one
instance, which is when they discuss legislation about their own pensions. The rest of the time they really don’t know
themselves as to what they are up to.
Ordinary citizens don’t
dare to break the law (a citizen might break at rule as the most) as they are
afraid of the law. That’s because the
laws are in effect tested on the very same citizens that they are meant to
protect. These people are being used
like unwitting rabbits in a laboratory test.
Matters are compounded in that the court system does not have the trust
of the people. There is a system, of sorts,
but it is possible to manipulate that into any direction you wish, if you are
rich and powerful, because there are so many voids and grey areas in the
Law.
I cannot say for sure
that these voids and grey areas are in place through accident or design and
that’s because it may be a result of plagiarizing the laws of other countries
and things being lost in translation.
However, one thing I am certain of is that no-one tries to fill those
voids. And that’s because the
authorities benefit from the gaps and grey areas. By using those voids, they become empowered
to do things like conceal illegal actions undertaken by their businesses. They also carry out various legalistic experiments
on their citizens by using those gaps.
The harsh reality is, they can arrest whoever they want just as much as
they can release whoever they want.
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