As we approach July 4, this article by L. Ron Hubbard speaks to a factor that puts our democratic way of life in peril. His article speaks for itself.
The major breakdown of Western democracy is its habit of carelessly basing legal actions on false reports.
Anyone can say anything about anybody and police powers and courts are liable to act on reports so false that a child could see through the lie.
This was the most odious thing about the NAZIS. And this characterizes communist “justice.”
In February 1969, I isolated the false accusation, false report and failing to confront the accused with his accusers as the basic breakdown of justice. These undermine personal security and involve the whole judiciary in endless, needless traffic.
Innocent people are subjected to press attacks, court procedures, endless expense and ruined lives by these factors alone.
Corrupt pressure groups such as the psychiatrists can disrupt any possible rival or tear the social structure of a nation to pieces as long as false reports are published, accepted and acted upon.
So flagrant is this abuse that it destroys for one and all the value of the cause of democracy.
When justice becomes slow, when it becomes expensive and when false reports on people and groups are allowed to go unchallenged and unpunished, any ideology becomes a tyranny.>>
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