Wednesday, November 11, 2015

We are a Nation of Laws, but are They Good Laws?

   "We are a nation of laws," it is said. But, every nation is a nation of laws. A dictatorship is a nation of laws, and often they are laws that restrict and oppress. It is not whether you have laws, but whether you have good laws that matters. If you find yourself oppressing the people and looking to punish for no better reason than to show the people that they must obey, wonder if you are of the mentality of a dictatorship.
   Merely having laws does not count you among the world's best nations, but having good laws does. Oppressive nations have oppressive laws. We should wonder about our immigration laws. We should wonder, are we of the mentality that finds a fault and seeks to punish, that takes the poor and oppresses them?
   Oh, forgive, but sometimes I think it as if we tell them, "We are the kings in this matter, and you will do what we say. You have no rights. Yours is to listen and obey." If they so much as cross a border without our permission, we take great offense, and cry how they will be the ruination of our nation.
  Is it so? Or are we just an oppressive people? If we had an oppressive king, would he treat them any differently?

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