“Obedience to the law is liberty”
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Here is a photo of the Crittenden County Courthouse, located in Marion, Arkansas. Click it for a full-sized image.
See that writing across the front? “OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW IS LIBERTY” is what it proclaims.
Pardon Me?
I wonder what Pactrick Henry, John Hancock, and Paul Revere would say about that?
We Americans enjoy the liberty we have today because men like those mentioned above knew what a stinking crock that statement is. Honestly. If those men had believed that statement then they would have decided that the liberty they hungered for could be obtained by doing what the King of England told them to and not by starting a revolution.
That statement sounds like something out of George Orwell’s 1984. The fact that it appears on a courthouse of all places is utterly appalling!
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I was in Marion, Arkansas on June 2, 2007, and noticed that very same inscribed comment. I don’t have a clue who you are, but to totally agree with you. I only wish we could figure out where the phrase came from and why so many courthouses have that statement inscribed on them. P.S. I saw a blog where Midwest City, Oklahoma’s town motto was the came and was inscribed at one time on the city patrol cars.