We need to return to Lawless Old West. After we dispel the Hollywood Myth that the West was Lawless, a chaotic, violent, “lawless” place full of shootouts, outlaws, and disorder.
The West was not lawless. It was actually governed quite effectively by common law that came from natural law that this country and most of the world has totally forgotten and given it’s power away to government. .
An Armed society is a polite society.
The Old West proves that a free people, operating under simple, rational common law enforced privately, can maintain order far better than a large government bureaucracy ever could. The “lawless West” was mostly a myth used to sell the idea that we need more government.
There were no large, centralized police forces or bureaucratic governments in most areas — yet order was maintained.
Famous “wild” incidents (gunfights, bank robberies, etc.) were heavily exaggerated by dime novels, movies, and later government propaganda to justify expanding federal and state power. The early days of false flags in media.
the West became more chaotic and corrupt after the federal government and political law (statutory law enacted by legislatures) moved in and replaced the organic common-law system. Political law introduced arbitrary rules, favoritism, corruption, and inefficiency — exactly the opposite of the stable, rational common-law order that had worked so well.
- Common law (scientific, discovered, based on natural law produces peace, prosperity, and justice.
- Political law (man-made, arbitrary, enacted by governments) creates disorder, corruption, and tyranny.
Private and voluntary mechanisms dominated: reputation, ostracism, boycotts, arbitration, private detectives (e.g., Pinkerton agents), posses, and occasional citizen vigilante committees.
These principles were practiced for centuries in early Christian Ireland under the Brehon Law — a sophisticated, customary, non-political legal system based on discovered natural law, contracts, reputation, restitution, and private enforcement rather than statutes passed by rulers.
The reason family members can’t get 15 minutes alone in a room with these thugs is because they do not commit crimes against a person. Nope. If somebody comes into your house, robs you and takes a family members life, it’s considered a crime against the state. Not against you. You have zero rights and unlike common law, the individual owes you nothing for your damages. Instead they create income for the state.
Of course, in modern day America, we have no centrist party. Both parties want more government to serve their agenda’s.
The libertarian party and the Constitutional party are completely worthless, modern day, political parties who are operating as if we are in the Stone AGe and not acknowledging modern day politics and media. They have no wise leader. No family, company, town, city, country can survive without a wise elder. People need a face because we suck at principles.
The freakin’ libertarian party doesn’t even have a spokesperson with commentary on social media by a person who people take seriously. And both sides hate the center.
So until the country collapses, and the words common law and natural law are actually taught in law school and electorate understands the difference between political law/Statutes and common law. We are screwed.
In all the Grimm Fairy tales, the king and queen are old and sickly. The kingdom is in disarray. It returns to normality after a crisis period which is a zeitgeist and golden mean in time.
It’s still early in the crisis period. Keep stacking lead.
