LAWLESSNESS IN GOVERNMENT AND ON THE STREETS HAS TO BE PUNISHED

 LAWLESSNESS IN GOVERNMENT AND ON THE STREETS HAS TO BE PUNISHED

By Domenick J. Maglio PhD. Traditional Realist

 

ECCLIASTICS 8 1:11 When a crime is not quickly punished, people feel it is safe to do wrong.”

 

Lawlessness has become a bane in every facet of the US experience. In our urban areas citizens are witnessing expensive items being robbed from upscale department stores without any retribution. Similarly, there is no enforcement of the law for burning buildings and physically assaulting or even killing others. The police are being defunded by progressive elites while their hands are tied by ridiculous restrictions making the duties of apprehending out-of-control criminals impossible. It is the “old wild west” on steroids, without any sheriff to reestablish law and order. Chaos reigns in our government, dysfunctional families, and nation.

 

In many rural and suburban areas self-destruction of youngsters has become epidemic. Drug addiction, overdosing, suicide and divorce are rising dramatically. Students are not following the simplest rules in school and blatantly disobey the limits of the family.  There are little to no consequences for being an irresponsible student or even for harming innocent ones. There are few normal standards being met in academic and behavioral areas.

 

School board members who are supposed to respond to parents’ interests are dismissing parents as if they have no right to know what their children are learning or how teachers are treating them.  Our government schools have gone rogue dismissing their accountability to all. Unelected bureaucrats have been emboldened on all political levels by the solidarity of the institutionalized bureaucrats who dictate to citizens what they will do and accept. These arrogant officials believe they have the power and right to impose their will on the citizens. 

 

Prosecutors in state governments are not imprisoning chronic criminals who have committed brutal acts, even murder. Lawmakers are not following the constitutional laws they have sworn to follow. These political elites are not passing laws for the betterment of the people they represent rather to control them for political and financial gain. This abuse of power by elected officials is happening from the local community level all the way to the White House.

 

Our representatives in the house, senate, judiciary, and presidency also are behaving as if they are no longer accountable to the people. Each of these institutions has found illegitimate ways to circumvent their duty to the people’s government while becoming petty lords in congress. Many bills are passed before they know what is in them.  As Speaker Pelosi said, “we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” An overwhelming number of federal laws are being decreed by federal agencies such as the FBI, IRS, NSA and CIA and a host of progressive bureaucrats not properly passed by the legislative process. Even the teacher unions have their hand in making mandates for our children.

   

Some of the agency’s declarations, even state fines and jail time, are decreed without sanction of congress. These subversive tactics of bypassing our constitutional republic have been ignored by the Marxist media. When progressive lawmakers are found guilty of criminal charges it is not publicized while any member of the opposition party is immediately outed and removed for similar transgressions.  Our legal process has been replaced by executive orders and bureaucratic edicts. 

 

The third branch of government, the judicial, has abdicated its responsibility to uphold our constitutional rights by often not even hearing cases. Many of the lower judges legislate from the bench. Too frequently there has been silence or ambiguous rulings on obvious transgressions of our constitutional rights.  The US Supreme Court appears not to be drawing a clear line between what is legal or illegal.

 

Authority figures in our homes, schools and federal government must be encouraged and given the necessary power to establish the system of law and order in each of their domains. Parents, teachers, local and federal courts should do their duty to set appropriate limits and enforce them to create a safe, wholesome environment. As a society we have not only tied the hands of our police officers but our parents, teachers, prosecutors, and local officials to provide reasonable and effective consequences for harmful behavior. We should understand that if there are no strong deterrents to misbehavior they will continue to increase. 

 

Discipline to follow a moral lifestyle starts with the family. To establish appropriate citizens, we need positive role models that live and demonstrate the moral values that they preach. When children are living in a calm, Godly environment they learn one set of moral values and behaviors. When they are placed in the midst of antisocial chaos, they learn how to survive, which is an opposite set of behaviors and values.

 

Without law and order, civilizations fall. Stability of a society is nourished on Biblical, moral family values, law, and order. 

 

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers and blogs, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a recent book entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can see many of Dr. Maglio’s articles at www.drmaglioblogspot.com.