William Elder

2017-05-02 22:09:00 -0400

Free speech suffering from ambiguous subjective laws is a symptom of a much larger problem that is indicative of the degeneration of our law-making bodies.



The core doctrine of the rule of law in a constitutional liberal democracy is that law must be written to clearly state it’s purpose, intent and clearly delineate exactly what is legal and illegal in language such that all can understand. This goes back to the Magna Carta and hundreds of years of common law precedent. Simply laws cannot be ambiguous otherwise you cannot hold those accountable to the law who cannot understand what it wants.



Issuing edicts in statute law outlawing ambiguous things open to subjective interpretation is the very antithesis of justice. Each community, social group and individual has a different concept of what is “offensive” making a fair trial impossible and opening the public to abusive enforcement and malicious prosecution – just like in an authoritarian dystopia.



In the west we are straying frighteningly close to an abusive autocratic plutocracy by our law being written by, interpreted by and only understandable by a small elite clique (the bar) with most of the common public neither knowing what s lawful or not nor understanding the law (Which has mutated into a voluminous work no single man can know completely.) We have a legal system not a justice system, in a justice system the people can understand the law and take part in the justice system – in a legal system only lawyers and autocrats know the law and it is exclusive to them alone.

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