Are governments above the law?

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Glenn Jacobs / 130 N. Poverty Flat / Box 954 / Eagar, Arizona 85925 / 928-333-3517
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The that government must obey

Letter to the editor;

Every level of government passes laws -- and forces people to obey them.

What law do governments have to obey?

Municipalities have to operate within the bounds of their charters.

States – and the national government – have to obey their constitutions.

They don’t obey. But they still have to. The fact that they daily violate their charters and constitutions does not nullify them. Those documents remain the law -- and the violations remain crimes. Only, nobody punishes crimes that are committed by governments.

Government agencies commit crimes against people they are supposed to protect.

Politicians foment wars against countries that never did us any harm.

Our Beloved Leaders make secret deals with foreign leaders in violation of the Constitution.

Judges get so friendly with prosecutors that defendants are utterly ignored in their courtrooms.

Municipal land-use bureaus get so interested in making their cities beautiful that they deliberately grind the faces of the poor to force them to move out of town.

Close decisions are decided by giving nice jobs (that do not involve showing up at work) to worthless, do-nothing relatives.

Judges decree that nobody has standing to challenge acts of government. Worse; they invented “judicial immunity” to protect themselves from accountability.

I don’t know how to hold government to account for disobeying the law. Does anyone? I want to know. Answer me at glenn3@frontiernet.net.

Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona