• But more than this, laws are formulated, legislated, implemented, and enforced to justify the violence of the people that benefit from these laws.
• Worse than these laws are systems designed to justify covert violence done against the general population by the powers-that-be, people that initiated and established these systems -- economic, educational, social, etc.
• A good example of this is the creation of the corporation whose rights are rights not even given to individuals, like the right to declaring bankruptcy -- that corporations still benefit from -- which was taken away from the individual recently in the US. This corporate monster has now its own life, and it inherited the mental form from whence it was created, along with its tendency towards greed, violence and vengeance.
Interview with Noam Chomsky about rights of corporations, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJjWC1FlA20&eurl=http://violenceandvengeance.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html&feature=player_embedded
• The present economic system itself is designed with this background; that is why it is violent. The system is designed in a manner that the only way for a company to survive is by giving its workers a bare minimum subsistence income. If the stocks of a corporation is losing its value, the first thing that its management does is to lay-off thousands of its employees.
• Not to worry, though, because this system is like a chicken with its head cut off, but still running -- without knowing that it is already dead.
Click here to view "Believe it or Not" feature on "Mike, the Headless Chicken. http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/mike_on_youtube.php
As an aside, just today, in the news, a high school student could be sentenced the maximum sentence of up to 38 years in jail for hacking. If this is not harsh punishment, I do not know what is. What is even worse is that this young student is going to be punished under a law that he does not have the right to vote for. And what for? To make him an example. To show other young people hacking will not be tolerated.
"It would appear that it is a preexisting situation of power that establishes any given law, and that law in turn legitimates power. So it is power, as the imposition of an intention, whether accepted or not, that is our central theme. It is said that “might does not make right,” but this nonsense can be accepted only if one thinks of “might” simply as brute physical force. In reality, however, force (economic, political, and so on) does not need to be expressed perceptually in order to make its presence felt and to command respect. Moreover, the naked threat of physical force (the force of arms, for example) is used to impose situations that the law is used to justify. Nor should we overlook the fact that the use of arms in a given direction depends on human intention and not on laws." --Silo, The Human Landscape, http://siloswords.blogspot.com/2009/03/silo-human-landscape.html•••
