Rule by black robes – an American epidemic

Returning to a subject we have touched on more and more, we see more evidence across all Fifty States and especially in the District of Criminals that the black robed judges – at all levels – consider themselves to be the true rulers of these States, and indeed, overpowering above not just every government at any level, but the people in toto and individually.

Some of the most recent evidence comes from the great State of Wyoming. It is, overall and despite many blemishes, one of the freer States in our Union. But as recent articles in Cowboy State Daily show, it is a judge-ridden State like most of the rest. It seems that half of the articles appearing over the last week or so featured some action going on in court – regardless of the activities involved.

Things like school funding, hunting, fishing, property taxes, driving down the highway, voting, buying and selling food, getting medicine, and hundreds of other daily activities by millions of Americans are fair game for judges. Who jerk people around daily and for weeks and months and even years.

Of course, much of the power and interference in our daily lives, making a living, raising a family, and every other thing which the black robes have is given to them by the People, or at least so the legislators who do so directly claim. “We’re just doing the will of the people,” they claim. “Befehl ist befehl” (orders are orders, in the original German) did not work after World War II as mass killers and torturers and tyrants at all levels were punished. Why should it work today? Or at any time.

And the judges are “just following the law” – no matter what they actually believe, that is what they say. Oh, and some claim to be applying a “living” Constitution, as apparently interpreted by Napoleanic and Papist and Sharia principles. By surrendering our lives to parliaments (commissions, councils, legislatures, congresses, etc.), and executives (mayors and governors and presidents, etc.) we people have forfeited the power to govern our own lives. And they in turn have “democratically” imposed laws and regulations and interpretations that micromanage nearly every waking and sleeping hour of our days. And then they bow down to the very judges that they appoint and approve and pay for, as though the judges were the rulers – their masters.

As we have discussed before, rule by judges is called critocracy. (As some readers have pointed out, it is also known as juristocracy or “hegemony of judges” (jurists).) Whatever we want to call it, it is not a tolerable way of running society, Or economies, Or nations. Not if we want to live in liberty, prosperity – and sanity.

(By the way, here at TPOL we don’t care for “juristocracy” because it gives an impression (wrong impression) that juries are running things. In courtrooms, juries should be running things, but despite such efforts as FIJA and clear statements in constitutions, the judge is a little tin god in his or her courtroom, and juries are there for him, the prosecutor, and sometimes the defense attorney to wipe their shoes on. All too often.)

Of course, at the FedGov level, despite various (and often surprising) SCOTUS decisions, the madness is even more stark than at the State and local level. Decisions which the Constitution clearly gives into the hands of the Executive (POTUS!) are delayed by weeks and months by tinpot dictators in District Courts. Votes in Congress are delayed, nullified, or ignored or perverted by the actions of courts without constitutional backing.

Though again, we point out that historically, in the long term, the court systems (there is not much justice left in the so-called “justice system” today) support the power and wealth of the governments that pay their salaries and their expenses, and protect them from triggered payback from those they wrong. But they seem to believe that government support they provide is to the deep state bureaucracy and not to any form of true democracy – much less a republic.

In the New Testament, Jesus tells the crowds the Parable of the Wicked Judge (Luke 18:1-8). A judge who is unjust and lacks compassion is repeatedly approached by a persistent widow seeking justice. Although he initially refused – and does so repeatedly – he eventually grants her request to be heard, to avoid being further worn out by her persistence.

The Lord leaves it up to us here in the 21st Century (at least in the Fifty States) to figure out how the widow comes up with the money for all the filing fees and court costs and how to get through the judge’s scheduling clerk and all the rest of the expensive and debilitating hoops she would have to jump through. To say nothing of the attorney’s fees, since mostly it has to be an ennobled lawyer to speak to the judge.

Your thoughts and comments, as always, are appreciated.

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