No Rings, No Drama, Just Dominion

[Mark C]

"Wrong." "Sin." Not words I'd pick. It's a choice that - in FAR too many cases - the Constitution forbids Big Brother to make. Often explicitly.

It will be, virtually without question, the mechanism that enables the 'Mark of the Beast,' based on the legal concept of 'commerce.' (Forbidding to 'buy or sell' - as is already being done for too many businesses and professions - without 'permission.')

It was one of the truly Evil mechanisms used to enforce the COVID BS. Suspending the 'licenses' of any physicians, nurses, or others who might have objected to Medical Malpractice on an international level.

I got what is actually called an "Airman's Certificate," and later an 'endorsement' for Instrument Certification (PPSEL-Inst) because I wanted to learn to fly. And while I can argue that the FAA (especially now) often does more harm than good (and allowed 'pilots' to be MANDATED to take an injection that their OWN "Federal Aviation Regulations" for Medical Certification say explicitly should ground EVERY single 'licensed' pilot who took them: "Do NOT Issuse - Do NOT Fly" - so how's THAT for caring about "safety" and the flying public?) - I will acknowledge that mistakes in aviation get people killed.

 

[Mark C]

You could say that personal ballistics should also be regulated for the common good, but we have a very specific Constitutional law that prohibits such restrictions.

Some do, and that's a separate issue, but related.

It turns out that most (I would argue - the VAST majority!) of "government regulation" by way of 'licensing' is not only at least implicitly (marriage, trades, agriculture) but explicitly (arms) forbidden.

The 'argument' above began based on whether something that should NOT be 'licensed' at all from a legal standpoint is whether or not something people (who often don't know any better) should SUBMIT to. I contend that we all have a choice, but that it often amounts to a direct submission to "another master," sometimes at greater cost than the subject-slave is aware of.

Steve brings up a different issue, specifically with regard to the "Right to keep and bear arms," but with more general application.

MOST 'government regulation' (and licensing) is not only unlawful, but outright COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE.

This is particularly obvious when it comes to 'firearms' (a term of art used to sidestep the Second Amendment - note what it says carefully.)

To quote Thomas Jefferson:
"Laws which forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.
...But such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailant; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
"On Crimes and Punishment," 1764

The obvious but oft-unreported fact that well over 90% of all "mass shootings" occur in what I properly refer to as "Gun-Free Killing Zones" brings that point home.

I can, and have, make a similar argument that licensed marriage is not only counter-productive, but leads to outright evil. Not only broken families, "forbidding to marry," [more than the licensed 'one'] and rampant 'divorce' - but licensed abomination (sodomy++) as well.

There seems to be a more general principle at work here...