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Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law

Law And Order Are Incidental To Justice.

"The Criminal Law according to Thelema:
All offenses are reduced to one; to deprive another of his right. (E.g. to live, to own goods, to sleep-as by making undue noise-and so on.) Therefore, the 'offender' denies his own right to similar protection; and he is treated accordingly. He can be reinstated on his purging the offense."-Aleister Crowley, Diary Entry

"Justice is incidental to law and order"-J.Edgar Hoover

In sentencing an individual for something that was illegal, a judge in Saskatoon used an argument to answer that man's challenge to law he had violated. The judge's words, "Respect for the law protects freedom in a democratic society" would almost sound Crowleyan in it's logic, if it weren't for the offence he was referring to. The individual was Canadian Marijuana activist Marc Emery, the offence was passing a joint.
The laws against marijuana, like the Nazi Nuremburg laws or the more recently discarded laws against homosexuality, "adultery", "pornography", historical and current laws against religions other than the one held by those in government, etc, are examples of laws that do not protect anyone from anything. The judge's argument was, rather, that of Hoover, to whom the rightness or wrongness of the law itself was besides the point. The powerful minority controlling the masses is the point of all current legal systems.
These legal systems protect "society" in the sense that, by making things into crimes that most people wouldn't think of as wrong, the ruling class minority that refers to itself as society, and it's obsessions, compulsions and phobias as "societal values", can maintain their own delusion of moral high ground by acting as though being "law abiding citizens" is somehow a good thing, that it justifies the thugs with guns and bullet proof vests who perform home invasions, robberies and abductions and other offences against people guilty of growing plants that the ruling class happens to be superstitiously averse to.
History has shown that law abiding citizens, followers of orders, etc, have committed all of history's greatest attrocities.
It wasn't Hitler who built the gas chambers, it wasn't the political maneuvers that got him into power. It was the fact that as soon as he was "constitutionally" labelled as the leader police and soldiers saw to it that masses of people accepted his "right" to rule, obeyed the laws that were made under his leadership and followed the orders that came down the hierarchy.
The judge in the Marc Emery case was pretending to believe that the laws against marijuana were for the "health and safety" reasons long disproven yet re-hashed every decade, prtending to believe, since it's not illegal and is historically and presently a key component of ruling class white tradition, that alcohol is safer even though nobody actually believes this. His argument also calls on one to pretend to believe that if people were allowed to ignore "the law" where it concerned marijuana they would also suddenly feel they had a right to murder. I say pretending to believe, because there is absolutely nobody who actually believes that logic, it's inherent wrongness is blatant even on the surface.
Murder, theft, rape, torture, etc., all have one thing in common: THE PERPRETRATOR WOULDN'T WANT TO BE THE VICTIM. If you had a referendum on prohibition, a majority would be likely to vote against it. If you had a referendum to legalize murder, you might have one person out of every million vote "yes" as a joke.
The sole basis of legitimate law is that the law must protect a majority of people from a minority that benefit from causing harm. The legal system that exists in most of the "civilized", meaning Judeo-Graeco-Germanic-Romanized, world, was designed by tyrants for the benefit of tyrants. It has retained the same form because it has maintained the same purpose. When one considers how the age of the legal system is used as by it's enforcers as one of it's defences, one wonders about their unconscious motives, if the ancients were so much wiser than us that modern man couldn't develop a better system, perhaps they secretly harbour a wish to bring back other ancient gems of wisdom like witch-burning, clitorodechtomy, kings, emperors, human-gods, etc. Drug prohibition remains only because police, judges, lawyers, "treatment" experts, mafias of all stripes, etc, profit from it.
In other words, our legal system is largely made up of, and represents the interests of, the minority that any legitimate law would protect the majority from.
So, at it's essence, law enforcement is a criminal enterprise.
The law of today is not legitimate. It must be brought down, by any means necessary, and replaced by one in which justice is not incidental.
Daniel Johnson