Sure it will.

“You killed someone. It’s wrong and it’s against the law. You have to pay.”

“My conscience dictated that he had to die. He had sex with my wife. My wife said it was rape. There were no witnesses.”

What do you say to that?

That’s already the way it is. It’s called “jury nullification.” An individual must do what he thinks is right. If it happens to be against the law, and he gets caught, then, if the jury concurs that the law does not reflect justice in the situation, they can vote that the defendant is “not guilty.”

Because most laws don’t put a man of conscience on trial.

Those kinds of laws are relatively simple to defeat (do not comply).

Most laws accumulate tiny injustices that amount to an attack on the individual by millions of pin pricks. And this is accomplished through excessive legislation, and laws that are fragmentary grenades full of hidden, destructive directives.

The way you stop this is to force anyone who wants to vote on a law to have to physically sit down and listen to what he/she is voting for.

“If you defy the government by refusing to comply with their laws, then they will most certainly put you on trial and exact their retribution. That should be obvious to anyone with any common sense. Then you will be forced to comply with the government’s laws and be subjected to whatever penalty the government deems appropriate.”

If want to be free, then you must be aggressive. Freedom is for heroes.

“What are you going to do, tie people to a chair and force them to listen to you? Are you also going to force them to vote the way you want them to vote? Stop being ridiculous.”

Did you not read my initial comment?

Constitutional amendment.

The path of freedom is paved with blood and tears. If you enjoy it without having to have bled, then God bless you. But understand that the cost of freedom is eternal vigilance, and it cannot be sustained without the willingness of the strong to defend it at all costs.

You have to keep your government in check.

This means, limit them with the constitution.

If they fail to abide by the constitution, refuse to comply.

Arm yourself and organize with the like-minded, and people in government who have not betrayed the people, so that when people start disappearing, you can resist and overcome.

You have children?

Do what you can.

“Freedom is for everyone that doesn’t want to be a slave.”

Then assert the fact that you are not a slave.

“You can be the hero. I’m no coward or pacifist, but I’m also no good to my children sitting in a jail cell or dead. But I’ll watch for your name in the news.”

You won’t see it. Most battles are small. A vaccine is refused. A paper is written and sent to key personnel. The vaccine disappears. Attempts are made by private security guards to limit free speech. People refuse to leave. When the police are called, your rights are reaffirmed. A cop asks to search your vehicle. You say no. Small battles that let the tyrants know their place. God forbid things should spin out of control. That’s not what I want. Although, I am prepared for that, too.

Tyrants are demons. Demons can be put in their place when you invoke the truth — unless, of course, they are allowed to run unchecked. Then you get Germany in the 1930s.

“Force everyone to sit down and physically listen to what they are voting for was your suggestion, not mine. Trying to persuade other people through rational means that your ideas would work is my suggestion. I’m not surprised that you suggest using force to get your way. That’s what collectivists always do.”

Strawman. Not even close to what I was suggesting. I was suggesting forcing LEGISLATORS to have to LISTEN to the bill they’re going too VOTE for on behalf of US. They are not engaging in rational debate. They are creating directives. If they are going to implement FORCE against us, then they should at least have to sit there and listen to what they’re doing to us.

“I wish you well with the constitutional amendment. But I don’t put much faith in that sort of thing. These days our government pretty much ignores the constitution unless they want to use it for their own benefit. And a constitution can’t enforce itself, even though most people go on acting as if it can. A constitution has to be interpreted, and different people are always coming up with wildly different interpretations of the various articles and amendments of the constitution. Anything you come up with will be whittled down and reinterpreted to death, until you won’t even be able to recognize it anymore.

I’ll trust individuals having the right to follow their conscience and making decisions for themselves about what’s right and wrong over your constitution, which will be interpreted and administered by government officials that are working for themselves, not you..”

I can understand you being more concerned with your children than keeping the power in check. Please don’t condescend to me for being willing to stand up.

You really don’t know who you’re talking to.

Don’t think that just because I don’t go around tooting my own horn, that I haven’t fought the state at great cost to my self.

I don’t do it for others; I don’t even do it for personal gain. I do it because it is what I must do. It’s that simple. You presume much about me. Be more careful about addressing those you do not know.

What are you talking about?

I proposed something very specific, and, it seems to me, very uncontroversial: that measures should be taken to make sure that legislators at least know what they’re voting for. What, in anything that I’ve said, gives you the impression that I’m trying to “subject” you?

It doesn’t matter to me who you are, and I have no interest in telling you who I am, but your insinuation that I am sacrificing others in order to secure my own liberty is, frankly, insulting in the extreme.

Well, I am an anaracho-capitalist, in principle, but I think only the strong are fit for it. It’s something that, as a society, we will have to grow into. In the meantime, we need to transition back to a republic.

I’m kind of like a reverse-marxist in that way (i.e., Republic to anarcho-capitalism, versus Socialism to anarcho-communism).

As for conscience, I think you give people too much credit — I know people who don’t have consciences. Therefore, I think governments should exercise justice — which means: an eye for an eye.

I think, once the smoke clears, we’re more or less in agreement.

But I will say that insanity is endemic, these days.