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COMMUNITY
times these acts were commit-
ted by men who set themselves
as rulers and holy men, the
so-called highest standard in
the land i.e. the ‘elites’. Com-
pare that with a president who
will order the arrests of those
caught in the act of corruption,
while conveniently protecting
his family and cronies or even
himself, yet they are all guilty of
doing the same thing. Consider
the numerous cases worldwide
of people who were sentenced
to lengthy prison terms, even
death sentences, who were ac-
tually wrongly accused. Consid-
er the greedy person, corpora-
tion or government that decides
it wants the land that you and
your family have owned for
hundreds of years and so they
use the court system to take it
away from you and declare you
landless. Just like the fig tree
leaves, the law, a system built
and created and established by
man to cover his nakedness is
what they turn to, to try cover
their failures and ineptitude and
mostly, rebellion against a true
connection with God.
Parents, teachers, govern-
ments, employers and others
in positions of authority have to
understand one thing, people
are inherently wired to identify
and reject injustice and dis-
honor. It is innately wired in us
by God, for various reasons.
This is what those ‘in charge
of things’ tend to think of as a
person being ‘ungovernable’
or ‘difficult’. They are not. They
have simply observed a contra-
diction somewhere or spotted
dishonor somewhere or iden-
tified injustice that they natu-
rally reject. If rulers, business
leaders and even parents fail to
understand this, they will quick- actions that they take concern-
ly respond to this reaction with
the force of law, but if they care
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to dig deeper and understand, themselves and come gently
they will quickly find out that the and softly to the people who
root cause is based on simple hired them in the first place and
logic. The individual in question say to them, “Let’s work out a
has taken note of contradictions solution together that we can all
between what is written as law live up to,” but I find that it is dif-
and what is done by the ‘ruling ficult for heavily compromised,
class’ in reality and they ask arrogant and corrupt people
why they are subject to a matter to even admit error or to calm
that the people in charge them- down and come down to the
selves do not honor. It is not level of a simple person (which
complicated. One’s moral au- they are. as you find once they
thority to establish rule of law is lose their positions) and dia-
directly related to their own hon- logue as friends, sans the law.
oring of the same rule of law. The law does nothing except
Without this honor they lose all create dichotomy after dichoto-
spiritual and moral authority and my. It cannot do anything else.
will as a matter of course have That is its nature. The law is
to resort to physical force or divisive, pure and simple. Good
threats of physical force in order and bad, right and wrong, those
to gain compliance. This results are the criteria it recogniz-
in a cycle of defiance, rebellion es… unless you have a really
and the threat or use of force, great lawyer or in some cases,
on and on and could end badly pockets deep enough to line the
for either party. coffers of a judge and jury sub-
I often wonder whether govern- stantially. There is, therefore,
ments feel at a loss of what to no justice in the world and in
do when it comes to the man- light of this injustice, there is no
agement of people, and then I order, because the people who
realize that they do and that this have entrusted the system to
bewilderment is displayed in the their proxies for effective man-
agement have taken note that
ing the people. Then I wonder their trust has been dishonored
why they do not simply humble and they rebel in one form or
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