The Sicilian Message . . . Meant for Us

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Will Trump become even stronger now that he’s been created a “felon” – 34 times! – by a “court” (and jury) that everyone understands was convened to convict him? That is the belief asserted by Devolutionists – the people who believe that this is all a show and part of an elaborate operation to expose the corruption of the system so that it can be un-corrupted.

Of course, such a thing has never before happened in the history of government-gone-bad (which of course is all governments, which are necessarily bad; the difference being a matter of degree only). Once government goes really bad – as the one that controls this country manifestly has – there is but one way to un-corrupt it and that is to rid ourselves of it.

What happened to Trump is not about Trump.

It is about what is going to happen to us – now that the precedent has been set that anyone can be created a “felon” anytime the government decides to create any of us as one. You may recall the book, Three Felonies a Day. The gist of it being that there are so many laws that it is effectively impossible to avoid committing “crimes.” This endows the government with the power to prosecute us for these “crimes” whenever it likes – which amounts to whenever it decides it does not like us. This endows the government with the greatest power there is: The power to make us afraid.

When a person knows he is vulnerable to the exercise of arbitrary power – when he knows that he cannot rely on due process, rules of evidence or even the slightest pretext of fairness – that he can pursued by Inspector Javert at any time and that his consignment to prison is an inevitability once the gaze of Javert is fixed upon him – then he lives in fear and that fear serves to keep his head down and his mouth shut.

Trump wasn’t so much taught a lesson as we were sent a message.

How will he – how will we – respond?

The Devolutionist say – rightly – that is no longer possible to pretend the system isn’t malicious and so illegitimate. Implicit in this is the duty to reject it as illegitimate. Trump – himself – is irrelevant except in the human sense that irrespective of what one thinks of him personally, what has been done to him must not be countenanced for the same reason that a wrong done to anyone must never be countenanced.

Wrong is now official.

It is policy.

There has always been the tendency but it was restrained to some extent by the necessity of at least pretending to not be overtly wrong. There were rules that had to be followed – at least to some degree – that restrained what could be done by the law. But – as we have just seen – the law is now become (openly, right in our faces) whatever the law decides it will be.

All we can do now is come to terms with the fact of the thing – and decide whether we’ll continue to pretend and play along with it. Or decide the time has come to repudiate it and act accordingly, by denying it our consent for openers. By regarding it as we would the “laws” of a common street criminal or gang of them. It may be prudent in the moment to pretend to play along but in our hearts we know the deal and as soon as the opportunity arises to not play along, we ought to take it.

Whatever form that takes.

One form that is very effective – because it very healthy – is making it plain we know who they are. That they are not “public servants” but thugs with official titles. That they are sons-of-bitches, every one of them – by definition (or at least until they prove themselves not to be).

We can “shrug” – by working less (or even mot at all)  so as to be taxed less (or even not at all). We can lie and “cheat” – because it is absurd to characterize lying to a “public servant” – or “cheating” them – as immoral. That would be like faulting a rape victim for avoiding rape by telling her rapist she has Herpes – so as to avoid being raped.

Anything goes to get Trump? Then anything goes – to protect ourselves from those who just got Trump and who have made it plain they mean to get us, too.

Ich scheisse uber alles.

And all of them, too.

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