One of the favorite mottos of the law-and-order type, is to “not do the crime, if unwilling to do the time.” That type of short and succinct advice, seems sensible on the surface, but in reality, is just a bunch of hooey. In point of fact, there isn’t any one person, or institution, that can for a certainty, list and thereby cogently describe each and every conceivable crime that there is on the books in the United States, along with knowing the specific punishment of each, and then be able to elucidate in writing the irreproachable claim that none of these so-called “crimes” would in any way, form, or manner, contradict another law, and of which, not a single one of these laws has ever been overturned, modified, or changed, ever and never will be.
One example, of a law, which has been manufactured and basically serves as a catchall for the governmental policing arm to arrest and thereby to remove people that are inconvenient to them, is the crime of “willful disruption of governmental processes,” which basically seems to be a crime that any common citizen of this land could be accused of, when there are out in the public sphere and are protesting something, or recording something, or just plain standing around in a public place in which those governmental authorities do not desire them to be. In other words, when the government is annoyed by somebody, it has conceived of a way of stopping this annoyance, by concocting a crime charge, that serves to do exactly that.
The point of this type of law, really comes to down to the government exacting upon its citizenry, law-and-order, that reflects only the prevailing view of those that have actuated that government policing authority, against all those that they consider to be a nuisance and thereby an inconvenience to the state. Of course, governmental authorities, don’t typically like to be bothered by citizens that question them, or are an annoyance, or are an inconvenience, or are basically precluding that government from doing what it so wants to do, because that government often does not seem to desire to answer to those people, as if governmental authorities, themselves, are above the law.
When we logically think about “willful disruption of governmental processes,” and thereby the crime, thereof, the common-sense thought that comes to mind, is whether or not, a given governmental process is, by definition, always legal, on the up-and-up, and right. That is to say, should the government be permitted to have carte blanche as to what they so deem to be a necessary governmental process in which it is that very same government, that rules upon its own actions? Rather, doesn’t it make more sense that the general public should be permitted to at a minimum, question that which appears to be a governmental process that does not seem correct without having to suffer the indignity of being silenced, arrested, fined, and convicted, for simply having the courage to make a stand?
America is supposed to represent the land of liberty, but when that government is permitted to exert arbitrary power so it can thereby put its boot upon the prone neck of the common citizen, for those citizens supposed willful disruption, then liberty and the American dream, have been betrayed.