Jim Crow Cultural bias impacts the holder of those values in traumatic ways but will never know about it because these individuals have a unbending inside-looking-out orientation and are not prone or open to self-examination. If the only important world to deal with is the physical world, and the body is the focal point of the person, not the mind, then we can easily dismiss as unimportant the adverse impact we have on others as we create a narrow-minded world experience, the Jim Crow Community. Governing Jim Crow Communities Jim Crow communities are made up of protected classes or races of people and victim classes that don’t deserve equal justice or equal treatment, at least not in the mind of the beholder, a member of the protected. Cultural bias and institutionalized discrimination are hall marks of Jim Crow Systems as are anti-union sentiment among white, blue-collar workers and a belief that its natural that powerful people in business are also powerful people in government, they seem unconscious of the fascist nature of such a state of affairs. LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENTS The ideal modern government performs functions efficiently, designing and delivering services as they become needed to keep the city, Nation or agency humming along doing its job, performing its mission. Those running such a government would focus on technical, financial and practical affairs of operating a government rather than mutating the system to serve the cultural bias of a dominant majority-based government system in the hands of a minority. Whenever management is incompetent, out-of-control or absent, or if oversight is absent, a cultural elite can slip into power and pursue not the mission of the government but the cultural bias of that tiny group of adventurers. This is how Jim Crow Justice Systems grow. Mindset of legitimate government The Rule of Law is all we have to enforce the U. S. Constitution. Its all that protects Property Rights, the Rule of Law, little else. What that means is nearly everyone more or less expects nearly everyone else to obey and live within the law. If enough stop believing in the Rule of Law, civilization collapses to war and violence and imposed order rather than the organic order of democracy and free market globalism. The Rule of Law can not be enforced, nor can it be imposed. The Rule of Law is a belief amongst the governed and the governors and a learned behavior. When that belief is lost, as it was in northern Ireland, and in Kosovo and Serbia, it takes a very long time, and much blood and treasure to rebuild that trust. Its much better that governments don’t act in a way that threatens or undermines the general sense and belief in the Rule of Law. This suggests that Governments and property owners such as powerful captains of Industry and Commerce would insist that the Rule of Law be sacrosanct, but instead they tend to threaten and undermine it with lawless acts. Governments that undermine Rule of Law GOVERNMENTS THAT UNDERMINE THE RULE OF LAW It seems that the role of the Rule of Law is poorly understood, especially in Jim Crow Communities but perhaps on an even broader scale. Criticisms of Judicial decision processes suggest that strongly held opinion and cultural bias is expected to trump law if enough people think it should be that way. Places in South America a man can kill his wife and it is not murder or even a chargeable offense under certain circumstances such as when a man feels dishonored. He will not be arrested or investigated. Just because a lot of people believe this is reasonable doesn’t mean that it its reasonable under the Rule of Law. Populism is a form of despotism. Retrieving lost governments and restoring trust in the Rule of law Regardless of differing governing philosophies we will work with any government to help them help their people prosper. © Published by The International Chamber of Justice, 65 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave, St. Augustine, Florida, USA 32084 COB and CEO Roger G. Jolley chamberofjustice.wordpress/journal-of-the-international-chamber-of-justice-volume-1-issue-16-june-30-2009/
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