Yes, you can resist government tyranny

There is government and there is us, and it seems that never the twain shall meet.

Government makes laws out of thin air. But those laws are meaningless without the consent of the people.

All too often people accept the laws even if they don’t like them, especially if government tells us they are for our own good. More often than not, laws passed “for our own good” are not good for us at all, but are good for government. They increase government power or they enrich the system, but they reduce our liberties.

Last week, I mentioned in “You are guilty!” that an unelected bureaucrat working for the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) had taken it upon himself to write a “law” ostensibly making it illegal to carry a weapon in rest areas along Alabama’s highways and interstates. Signs then went up at all Alabama rest areas proclaiming that carrying a weapon into the rest area was unlawful and any “offender” would face fines and imprisonment.

Yellowhammer News reported:

ALDOT cites a provision of the Alabama Code that gives the agency the power to “prescribe any reasonable rules and regulations so as to prevent unnecessary trespassing upon or injury to any of the public roads, bridges, or highways of the state upon which state money may be expended or appropriated or upon any part of the right-of-way of any of the public roads or highways in the state upon which state money may be expended or appropriated.”

In their own administrative rule, ALDOT created a regulation which reads, “No person other than a duly authorized law enforcement officer shall enter any Alabama Department of Transportation building with a firearm… without the written permission of the Director.”

This ALDOT enactment seems to contradict state law, which gives “the Legislature complete control over regulation and policy pertaining to firearms, ammunition, and firearm accessories in order to ensure that such regulation and policy is applied uniformly throughout this state to each person subject to the state’s jurisdiction and to ensure protection of the right to keep and bear arms recognized by the Constitutions of the State of Alabama and the United States.”

Suddenly a person exercising his 2^nd Amendment right was to become a criminal (or a “trespasser” under the “rules and regulations”) in the eyes of ALDOT by passing an imaginary barrier established by a pointy-headed cubicle dweller in the hallowed halls of ALDOT. The choices left to the citizen were to disarm while traveling, ignore the law as arbitrary and stupid and become subject to the criminal justice system, or relieve himself on the side of the road and again become subject to the criminal justice system.

This “law” stood in conflict with an Alabama law recently passed that reinforced Alabama as an open carry state and designated the areas in which it is not legal to carry (the lunacy of this is a discussion for another day). But rest areas were not included in the list established by the Legislature, and Alabama law already stated that only the Legislature — and not government agencies or counties or municipalities — can make laws regarding guns.

Despite widespread outcry by Alabamians and several gun rights groups, ALDOT refused to back down on its edict and, in fact, passed the buck off to Alabama’s feckless and likely corrupt attorney general. (I say “likely corrupt” because an air of corruption surrounds his office’s handling of ethics charges filed against the state’s Republican House majority leader.)

Attorney General Luther Strange, who campaigns as a conservative but behaves as something much less, crawled into his shell — as he has done on all gun-related issues before this one — and tried to ignore the issue altogether, hoping it would blow over. It would not.

ALDOT, the attorney general’s office and the governor’s office were all swamped with calls. There was even a growing groundswell movement of gun owners pledging to go to all of the state’s rest areas carrying their weapons in an act of civil disobedience. Prominent among those pledges was a letter to ALDOT Director John Cooper, shared by “Three Percenter,” journalist and smuggler Mike Vanderboegh on his Sipsey Street Irregulars blog.

“[I]f you ignore the telephone blitz you are currently experiencing, it will be my honor and my pleasure to lead ‘I Will Not Comply’ armed civil disobedience actions numbering (at least) in the hundreds of participants at every Alabama Welcome Center in the state, as well as in front of your headquarters,” Vanderboegh told Cooper after outlining some of the actions he’s led defying edicts in other states. “So, I hope you save us the trouble and reverse this dangerous and deadly policy.”

On Friday, Alabama’s faux conservative, milquetoast, education union tool-of-a-governor relented and ordered ALDOT to remove the signs. After all, as he has so eloquently stated of late after he vetoed a budget that cut spending and called the Legislature back into special session, he doesn’t need distractions because he has “taxes to raise and work to do.”

The truth is that government is not used to people standing up to it over its unjust laws. It counts on people mindlessly accepting whatever outrage it foists upon them.

But remember, there are more of us than there are of them. They don’t forget that. They just count on you forgetting.

And the laws passed by government bureaucrats and the elected class are worthless and meaningless without their armed-enforcer class looking their fellow citizens in the eyes while they abuse them enforcing those unjust laws. That is why I hold the enforcer class in such contempt.

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