Copyright 2008,

by Surly

All victimless crimes are political crimes. Such crimes have political implications because they enforce a minority morality or political ideology on the majority, but in fact the effect is to persecute and control unpopular minorities. These laws give power and privilege to politicians, government bureaucrats and enforcers, giving them leverage to carry out personal political agendas and to reduce the rights of the individual citizen. All these laws exist purely for political and monetary reasons. If they had been preserved for reasons of morality alone, they would have long ago been rescinded.

What if all these morality issues were removed from law? What then would politicians and other public/political officeholders have left to incite public interest (read outrage, fear, titillation)? Perhaps important issues. They wouldn't have salacious material to drive their campaigns, making it difficult to use divide and conquer tactics of scapegoating to arouse and redirect public emotion or creating emotional smokescreens to cloud issues.

There is no inherent clause in the U. S. Constitution allowing the government and people to make discriminatory laws against minorities or even themselves. Most of these laws are based in historical legal precedent carried over from earlier times and other societies when there wasn't the diversity of belief and knowledge we have today. Most are religious in foundation and therefore violate the separation of church and state.

These are laws of opinion, personal belief and prejudice.