Obeying the law
In a blunt declaration to the German Law Academy in October 1936, Heinrich Himmler stated:
“We National Socialists set to work not without a sense of justice—which we bore within ourselves—but outside the law. From the beginning I was totally indifferent to whether our actions contravened some law. In the accomplishment of my duties I do what I can to justify my own conscience and what makes common sense in my work for the Fuhrer and the German people. Foreigners…spoke of course of lawlessness within the police and therefore within the state. They held everything to be lawless which did not conform to their own notions of law, but we in actual fact were laying the foundations of a new law based on the right to life of the German people.”
Ninety years later, high officials in our own government are promoting lawlessness to do the bidding of our own leader and claiming that it is also what is best for the American people.
We are a nation that was built on the fundamental principles of law.
The weakness of our Supreme Court to uphold our laws and a Congress unwilling to do its job, to be a separate and equal part of our government to check and balance the other two branches, has emboldened this second Trump Administration’s reign of terror.
If you are aghast and outraged at the direction that we are being taken, there is a solution that still may not be too late to employ.
Simply go to the polls this November and fight bullets with ballots. That includes right down to the local level of government. Don’t complain and do nothing. Stand up and vote!