If We Quit Voting

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:11:49 GMT  <== Politics ==> 

Frank Chodorov at LewRockwell.com - good argument against voting, from way back in 1945, when Mr. Chodorov hadn't voted for 25 years.

In the frontier days of our country there was little law, but much order, for the affairs of the community were in the hands of the citizenry. Although fiction may give an opposite impression, it is a fact that there was less per capita crime to take care of then than there is now when law pervades every turn and minute of our lives. What gave the West its wild and woolly reputation was the glamorous drama of intense community life. Everybody was keenly interested in the hanging of a cattle rustler; it was not done in the calculated quiet of a prison, with the dispatch of a mechanical system. The railriding of a violator of townhall dicta had to be the business of the town prosecutor, who was everybody.

Though the citizen's private musket was seldom used for the protection of life and property, its presence promised swift and positive justice, from which no legal chicanery offered escape, and its loud report announced the dignity of decency. Every crime was committed against the public, not the law, and therefore the public made an ado about it. Mistakes were made, to be sure, for human judgment is ever fallible; but, until the politician came, there was no deliberate malfeasance or misfeasance; until laws came, there were no violations, and the code of human decency made for order.

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Our Biggest Problem

Submitted by ekim on Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:44:30 GMT


Our biggest problem in the U.S. are lawyers and politicians, criminals are a distant third.

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