Judge Sends Amish Men to Jail Over FinesChris | InformationLiberationJan. 13, 2012 |
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Every tiny government fine is ultimately backed up by the barrel of a gun. Refuse to pay and you will be thrown into a government cage, sufficiently resist and police will murder you over something as small as a ticket. In this case, these Amish men are being jailed because they refused to pay a series of fines levied against them for not having orange triangle reflectors on the back of their horse-drawn buggies. AP reports: MAYFIELD, Ky. - A group of Amish men were sent to jail in western Kentucky Thursday for refusing to pay fines for breaking a state highway law that requires their horse-drawn buggies to be marked with orange reflective triangles.In fact, the judge could easily dismiss the case and throw it out if he so pleased, he chose not to. See this quote from Albert Jay Nock: Once, I remember, I ran across the case of a boy who had been sentenced to prison, a poor, scared little brat, who had intended something no worse than mischief, and it turned out to be a crime. The judge said he disliked to sentence the lad; it seemed the wrong thing to do; but the law left him no option. I was struck by this. The judge, then, was doing something as an official that he would not dream of doing as a man; and he could do it without any sense of responsibility, or discomfort, simply because he was acting as an official and not as a man. On this principle of action, it seemed to me that one could commit almost any kind of crime without getting into trouble with one's conscience.- "Anarchist's Progress" in The American Mercury (1927); § III : To Abolish Crime or to Monopolize It? |