Emancipation

Since our democracy does not uphold freedom of expression, legislation represents the imposition of minority factional dogma. And therefore, as night follows day, the rule of law is becoming an increasing tyranny.

Political parties who gain control of governance in Britain do not have the support of the majority of the electorate and yet Parliamentary voting balance is so biased as to provide the minority faction, which controls governance, an absolute voting majority in Parliament. Our governments have no national majority support and yet our system, very much controlled by the political parties, facilitates a transfer of power enabling a faction to possess an over-riding power to impose their own dogmas on the majority.

The rule of law is a fine sounding phrase and many consider this to be an enobling feature of democracies. But the law as a recepticle of rules and procedures to be enforced through a system of independent courts is only as good and as fair as what governments pour into it in the form of legislation.

The mathematics of political power in Britain (see "The mathematics of tyranny" ) is biased. British governments do not represent the majority and the power of Parliamentary decision-making enables a small and unrepresentative political party enforce its dogma into legislation through a majority vote in Parliament. This majority of Parliamentary voting power bears no relationship to the support of the governing party in the country but is simply the outcome of the electoral first past the post system.

As a resul of this bizarre process one sees that legislation is not refined through a reflective participation of the electorate but is rough hewn by the minority faction in power and forced through Parliament on the basis of threats and bribes by their party whips to force their intellectually-shackled and insubstantive parliamentaty members to vote with their party rather than reflecting upon the sometimes plain preferences of the people at large.

Over time this results in the Law not being representative of the will of the people but taking the form of a range of disjointed acts and including stealth legislation from Europe, the application of which judges must preside. No matter how fair the judge, no matter how apolitical or impartial, the interpretation of the law is reduced to an intepretation of intent of dogma imposed by one political party or another when in power.

Where democracy marginalises the direct participation of the people of a country they subdue freedom of expression and restrict individual freedom. Under such a system the phrase "the rule of law" takes on a significance not of national security founded upon an equitable and participatory process but rather one of arbitrary political manipulation and social engineering. The judiciary are left with the hapless task of enforcing such law. No matter how impartial judges might be they can find they are managing a malicious monster capable of inflicting harm on the innocent in a wholly aribtrary manner. The process causing this is not the process of judgement but rather the process of legislation.

In Britain the phrase, "Freedom, Democracy & the Rule of Law" consists of words which under our political system are so mutually contradictory that the phrase passes for no more than a collection of buzz words to be mouthed at an electorate when justifying just about anything, including wars and missions to spread our version of "democracy" in the world.

Updated: 11th November, 2009 (spelling errors)