LIL Update

I have been working today on a more official website for LibertyInLaw.com. It is coming along very well - the key now is to get it from the computer to online! :-) The look is a bright red with a parchment yellowish background. There is a large Statue of Liberty like that below in the bottom left corner of the new site design, looking upwards towards the "Law" in "Liberty In Law . com" at the top right.

A question under consideration is whether to adopt the title "South Carolina Liberty Alliance" for our work, or leave it at the less-official-sounding "LibertyInLaw.com." The SCLA idea comes from Cory Burnell of the Christian Exodus movement. It could help to gain the support of those in the Patriot, etc. community if we made this our name. However, we might also be expected to follow a pre-existing perspective on what such an organization should do and how it should be run. This state of affairs would not be desirable, since it would be in essence a handing-over of the very reference point which we as proponents of lawful government and pro-freedom-alliances will be attempting to provide.

Here is a summary of the LIL position taken from the website currently being constructed:

"We believe that liberty is not merely the ability to do what one chooses, but the fact that permanent, universal rights exist which allow one to have that ability protected.

"These rights or laws prevent the violation of liberty itself - e.g. the right to life is fundamental to the ability to choose, for one must be alive if one is to decide anything. And it is clear that the freedom of a murderous dictator is no freedom at all. As Constitutional Convention delegate James Wilson stated, "Without Liberty, Law loses its nature and name, and becomes oppression. Without Law, Liberty also loses its nature and name, and becomes licentiousness (anarchy)."

"A classic example of this concept is that of the stoplight. If all the cars at a given intersection tried to cross that intersection at once, none of them would get through. Instead, the stoplight exists as a collective standard to ensure that all the cars in fact cross the intersection and arrive at their respective destinations. Likewise, true liberty is inseparable from the Laws and absolutes given to us as a common standard by our Creator. "


-R. Josiah Magnuson