"Go ahead. I like these!"
As part of that government/citizen compact, the reasonable man may be expected to readily deliver himself into custody should the government demand it, that reasonable man having no fear of arguing his case in court, is that correct?
"Mm hm. That's the strength of our legal system. Every man gets his day in court to demonstrate his innocence. If you're innocent then you've nothing to fear."
Do terriss get trials?
"Of course not. They're the worse o' the worse. They're too dangerous."
Am I a smelly ol' terriss?
"I can't tell you. Like I said, it's a secret."
Do you reserve to yourselves the right to torture terriss?
"Yup."
Would I face torture if arrested?
"That would depend on whether you've been declared a terriss, which, again, is Top Secret."
So I cannot know if I would ever see the light of day if I permit myself to be arrested, and I may face torture, is that right?
"That is correct."
Would you expect the reasonable man to permit himself to be taken into custody so that he might later be tortured and killed?
"Of course not. That's kookie. What reasonable man would allow himself to be tortured and killed?"
Exactly. Does it then become reasonable for that man to use all most minimally effective degrees of force, up to and including lethal force, to prevent his own arrest, knowing as he does, that he faces torture and death?
"Mm hm."
So if the reasonable man may use lethal force to prevent his arrest on any matter, how do you propose to enforce your laws?
"I don't know. We didn't think it through."
All law is composed of a legal proscription attached to a defined sanction. And where there is no punishment there can be no crime. So if you can mete out no punishment --by already having invited the reasonable man to use all necessary force to prevent his arrest-- then all legal proscriptions become detached from any sanction, is that correct?
"Yup. I think I know where you're going with this and I don't much care for it."
If you deny trial and if you reserve to yourselves the right to torture and kill without trial, you deliver to the reasonable man permission to use lethal force to prevent his arrest on any matter. And where there is no sanction there is no law. So do you have any laws now?
"Nope. I was afraid you were going to figure that out. The United States now lacks a body of law."
That was easy. I have now demonstrated to the court that the United States stands mute on any legal matter. It retired its entire body of law by inviting the reasonable man to use lethal force to prevent his arrest on any matter. Pure brilliance.
On a related matter, Mister Holder, if United States grants permission to the reasonable man to use force to prevent his arrest --by that jurisdiction's reserving to itself the right to torture and imprison without trial-- how shall that reasonable man regard other jurisdictions, knowing that the several states will deliver to United States a person named in an arrest warrant?
"Well, since United States reserves to itself the right to torture, imprison, and kill without trial, and since we've already established that it is perfectly legal to use lethal force to prevent one's arrest on any matter, it is, by extension, legal to use lethal force to prevent one's arrest by any of our partner law enforcement agencies. They would be executing a United States arrest warrant in delivering you to us, and we would torture you and kill you."
So your jurisdiction has actually made it legal to use lethal force to prevent one's arrest by any jurisdiction that may deliver one to United States, is that correct?
"Mm hm. And we went to law school to figure out how to do that."
Yours is just the Typhoid Mary of jurisdictions, isn't it?
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Though I wish no one any harm, I suggest that the state Attorneys General cock their heads and closely examine this kook jurisdiction that they've elected to associate themselves with. Because if you study the legal ramifications of working with that kook jurisdiction, you will find that the lawless behavior of United States has now made it legal to use lethal force against state law enforcement officers to prevent one's arrest on any matter.
...because the alternative is certain torture and death. It's a straight-up self-defense issue. The defense would be a cakewalk.
It's pure legal brilliance around here, isn't it?