Obedience Becomes Null and Void

When a State Goes to War Against Its Citizens

Augusto Zimmermann writes:

. . . according to [John] Locke the state puts itself into a "state of war" against society every time it attempts to undermine our basic rights and freedoms.  Being God-given and inalienable, even if one seeks to bargain these rights away, one simply cannot succeed because natural rights are not the sort of things than can actually be bargained.  Such rights to life, liberty and property set limits on civil authority, thus providing a lawful justification for civil resistance against political tyranny should they be violated.  To the extent that the state does not recognise and protest these rights, it actually ceases to be a legitimate authority and the people can lawfully dismiss it for breach of trust. 

As Locke himself put it: 

Whenever the legislators endeavour to take away and destroy the property of the people [that is, their rights to life, liberty and property], or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience, and are left to the common refuge which God hath provided for all men against force and violence.  

[Augusto Zimmermann, Christian Foundations of the Common Law.  Volume 2: The United States (Brisbane: Connor Court Publishing, p. 2018), p. 68f.]

Civil War

Sizing the Problem

Those politicians and advocacy groups which have pushed Britain more and more in the direction of open borders have an awful lot to answer for.  It turns out that the "jihadi" problem is much, much bigger than previously announced.

Government sources have confessed that there are at least 23,000 jihadists in Britain – more than seven times higher than previously revealed.   Until recently, the public had been led to believe there were around 3,000 known jihadists in Britain, with 500 being subject to active investigations led by MI5. Whitehall officials have now disclosed that a further 20,000 individuals have been identified as posing a “residual risk”, according to The Times.  [BreitbartLondon]

Assuming this is correct, the effort to keep Britain safe from jihadi attacks will need to be prodigious.  As one expert put it:

Anthony Glees, the Centre for Security and Intelligence Studies director who recently estimated the number of jihadists in Britain at “between 6,000 and 10,000”, described the Whitehall revelations as “horrifying”.  “To have 23,000 potential killers in our midst is horrifying. We should double the size of MI5, as we did in World War Two, and expand the number of intelligence-led police by thousands,” he said.

In times of war, it is expected that normal civil rights will contract to some extent, and even to a significant extent, depending upon the threats.  It appears that we are now entering such a time.  The first duty is to tell the truth to the public.   Britain is entering a time and state of civil war.  It's time to call a spade and spade.

War On A Different Front

British Police Making Terror Arrests on ‘Near Daily Basis’ 

Experts Estimate There Are 10,000 Jihadis in the UK

Jack Montgomery
BreitbartLondon

The Senior National Co-ordinator for Counter Terrorism has confirmed that police are now making terror-related arrests “on a near daily basis”. Meanwhile, a noted security expert has estimated the number of “committed Islamists” in the country is “between 6,000 and 10,000”.

Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu revealed the astonishing scale of the struggle to contain terrorism in a statement outside New Scotland Yard on Friday.  “I wanted to reassure the public that our increased activity to combat terrorism over the last two years continues,” he said. The statement came following an “extraordinary day” in which police apprehended a migrant carrying a rucksack filled with knives in Whitehall and, in a separate incident, shot a woman in a niqab in a raid to foil an “active plot” in Willesden.

“Activity continues around the clock to identify and stop these threats,” said Basu, before his shocking admission that “we are making arrests on a near daily basis”.  The terror suspect who was apprehended with knives near Downing Street was “born abroad” and has been named as Khalid Mohammed Omar Ali, the BBC has learnt.