25A021 Law, Lawfare and Chaos by Jim Davies, 5/27/2025

Opposition to the present proxy war on Russia is led in France by Marine Le Pen, a kind of Trump-like figure, who leads a party called Rassemblement National. Last month she was found guilty by Macron's court monopoly of some minor financial irregularity and sentenced to four years in prison and barred from seeking political office for five. Macron has thereby protected himself from his main opposition. That's a classic example of "Lawfare." Another is last week's ominous threat by the German "Justice Minister", Frau Hubig, to ban the fast-rising and very popular Alternative für Deutschland, a party comparable to Le Pen's. The last German Chancellor to ban rival parties was Adolf Hitler.

It provides yet another reason why the creation of "laws" is a bad idea. Once one class in a society has the de-facto power to create rules for everyone to obey, it will continue to do so indefinitely, until (as now) there are so many that nobody can read them all in a single lifetime. That itself makes nonsense of the whole idea, but there's worse: it means that there's a virtually infinite pool of laws from which anyone at the top of the heap can draw so as to hobble his rival.

That very nearly happened in the US last year, but happily Donald Trump was able to use his reserves of courage and money, and prevail in November. It has now happened in France, and in Romania - where Calin Georgescu actually won the first round of Presidential elections last year but whose candidacy was then invalidated by the Supreme Court! The problem was that he stands for an end to NATO's hostility to Russia, and that would have upset the applecart. Lawfare at work, actively promoting war.

Now, it's often claimed that if there were not a structure of laws, there would be chaos. It's hard to imagine a greater state of chaos (the bad kind) than war, and as above law is now being used to promote war, but that's the claim. Let's check it out.

Literally, it's perfectly true and valid. Without laws, there's be chaos; but wait: what exactly is chaos? There's a bad kind, involving violence, but there's also the much more common good kind, involving none.

The whole of nature operates in a state of chaos.