Don't blame GA and TX. They are just making laws. And they need to be enforced
This will be the logic. That these laws reinforce majority rule and, just like the robots at the Border Patrol who hide behind "enforcing the law" and "call your Congressman, I'm just doing my job," the enforcers of these laws will follow the "just following orders and the law" defense.
I find this reprehensible.
Let's look at other laws that people said "I'm just doing my job" and "call your Congressman."
01: Alien and Sedition Act of 1799, where newspaper people could be arrested and jailed for criticizing the Adams presidency.
02: Indian Removal Act of 1830, where people were forced off their land by a psychotic president.
03: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which required people to capture fugitive slave, and prosecute those that knowingly didn't.
04: Black Codes after the Civil War, which started Jim Crow
05: Plessy v. Ferguson, that established separate by equal
06: Laws that prevented women to vote, which led to led to suffragettes being beaten for daring to vote.
07: Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which banned Chinese immigration
08: Asia Act of 1924, which banned all Asian immigration
09: Executive Order 9066, which put Japanese people into concentration camps during WW2
10: Anti Sodomy Laws that were used to prosecute and jail homosexuals
11: Anti vagrancy Laws that ARE used to prosecute and jail the homeless
12: Anti gay marriage laws that denied gay American citizens the ability to marry
13: Anti Abortion laws between 1973 that forced women into alley abortions or to use metal hangers
14: Anti-indecency laws that outlawed the F word, which outlawed the ability to say F the government legally
15: Volstead Act of 1920, that turned people into criminals for having a beer.
Using "well it's the law" has been abused too long. Henry David Thoreau spent a night in jail refusing to pay his taxes on a war trumped up by Napoleon of the Stump used as land grab. Stanton and Anthony went to jail to protect laws denying women the vote. King did too as it applied to black people. So did Gandhi when the British passed a law banning speaking out against war in India during WW2. So did Mandela when Apartheid was the law of South Africa.
Bad laws are passed by bad people, and bad police enforce bad laws because the cycle of bad is forever busy, and needs feeding.
We need to reject "the law is the law" in cases like the GA and TX and (soon to be) AZ neo Jim Crow. Javert complexes of "the law is the law and the law is not mocked" was BS in the defense of Nazis and the Japanese. . .it is BS here.
Law making is normally abused by one side
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