Repairing the 'justice system'

November 6, 10:01 PMAlbuquerque Libertarian ExaminerKent McManigal

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"Justice" is what we call the attempt to take an individual who has been harmed and correct the damage.  It has nothing to do with "punishment" except in the sick minds of statists.  If the aggressor himself can correct the situation, that is great, but it is not the necessary end-purpose of "justice".  Justice never involves harming those who had nothing to do with the original offense.  And "justice" never involves punishing someone who has no victim.

I'm not sure how anyone believes "justice" can happen when government controls each part of the process.  Government makes the "laws", interprets the "laws", enforces those "laws", runs the courts where it is decided whether someone has violated the "laws" and doles out the punishment when the offender is found guilty.  It is not surprising then that government tips the scales greatly in its own favor and toward its own purposes.  The crazy thing is not realizing this obvious fact.

Government is just an organization made up of people.  Members don't like for their organizations to be disbanded.  It gives the members a sense of failure and loss.  Therefore they will try to set up ways for their organization to keep going beyond its usefulness.  If you give an organization like this the power and "authority" to protect itself to the detriment of the rest of society, you get a bad organization that deserves to be put out of business.  In the worst case scenario you get a "government".

Government needs to be completely removed from the "justice system" and needs to cease being the owner of the courts.  The current situation is the most blatant example of a conflict of interest imaginable.  End the monopoly; privatize courts and allow for competition.  Support and demand a separation of justice and state as an important step toward the real goal of a separation of life and state.