I just occurred to me minutes ago, as I was pondering how we have arrived at this moment when we are having to make the case on bended knee for allowing ships at sea to be armed against pirates and terrorists. We have arrived at this stage of our civilizational suicidalism because many in the legal profession no longer feel and experience revulsion and disgust with evil and heinous acts in the world. They don’t believe in evil, nor in the need to fight it ferociously, with arms if necessary. So, many identify with terrorists and criminals – as misunderstood and oppressed human beings. They do not see in them persons who make choices and are responsible for those choices between good and evil.

These lawyers do not see law as being anchored in natural law, which is divine and ordained by God. They see law as something which ultimately we make up as we go. And what we make up we can undo, if it is politically expedient.

When this happens, gentlemen, we have arrived at degeneracy and oppression. It literally becomes a world where might makes right. Lenin would be smiling now.