{"id":1005,"date":"2011-05-15T23:44:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T03:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1005"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:56:59","slug":"the-lair-of-the-wolf-is-his-refuge-and-where-he-has-made-him-his-home-not-even-the-head-wolf-may-enter-not-even-the-council-may-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/?p=1005","title":{"rendered":"“The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home, Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Patrick says<\/a>:<\/p>\n

[T]here is a rule older and superior to that of the Constitution. \u00a0Many Americans do not believe that to be the case. \u00a0There is a philosophical divide in America, with the Justices of the Indiana court, and their Constitution, on one side, and a different law on the other.<\/p>\n

One American called it \u201cthe Laws of Nature and Nature\u2019s God\u201d.<\/p>\n

One Englishman called it \u201cthe Law of the Jungle\u201d<\/a>. [Link added.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the recently published decision<\/a> that Patrick is referring to, Barnes v. State<\/em>, a majority of the Indiana Supreme Court holds that “the right to reasonably resist an unlawful police entry into a home is no longer recognized under Indiana law.”<\/p>\n

The dissenters describe the majority as having “abrogated” this right. But rights can’t be “abrogated.” They can only be ignored and violated.<\/p>\n

There is no right more fundamental than the right to defend one’s self, family, and home. Verily, from this right derives<\/a> whatever justification, if any, “the law” itself might have. Yet the Indiana Supreme Court in Barnes<\/em> cites with apparent approval “legal scholarship” which “[i]n the 1920s . . . began criticizing” the right to resist unlawful police action “as valuing individual liberty over physical security of the officers.” But as a commenter at the Volokh Conspiracy trenchantly observes<\/a>: “There is a reason why officer safety is not included in the Bill of Rights, and that is because they are part of the danger being protected against.”<\/p>\n

In actuality, though, “the law” and the State derived from the Constitution doesn’t exist “to protect and serve.” Rather, it exists to extort and exploit<\/a>, and whatever protecting it might do is secondary and incidental to that overarching purpose. To see that this is so, compare what the State has done to this<\/a> man<\/a> who honorably and courageously defended himself and his son and friends from two armed and dangerous men on his own property, with what the State didn’t<\/em> do to this cowardly police officer<\/a> who gunned down a man on a city street without justification.<\/p>\n

If “the law” fails to recognize the right of a man to defend himself and his family and friends on his own property, then it is good for nothing except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Patrick says: [T]here is a rule older and superior to that of the Constitution. \u00a0Many Americans do not believe that to be the case. \u00a0There is a philosophical divide in America, with the Justices of the Indiana court, and their Constitution, on one side, and a different law on the other. One American called […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,104,101,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castle-doctrine","category-cops","category-judges","category-tyrus-coleman"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1005"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peoplevstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}