Law post SHTF

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(9 February 2013, 12:15)bigpaul Wrote: i dont really envisage a "temporary" event, like a few power cuts, maybe a bit of civil unrest, slow food deliveries, a "blip" on the radar of life, maybe 6months to a year of "difficulties" then hey presto its all right again, its "business as usual", i believe when this "thing"-whatever it is- comes, its the end of civilisation as we know it, the end of everything that the modern age has provided, no electricity, no oil, no imported food, no mains water, no mains drainage, no food in the shops, empty petrol stations, no phones, no internet, no NOTHING, everything YOU need for life and living YOU have to go out and FIND, its not in the shops, you cant buy it from a catalogue, you either have to find it, make it or grow it yourself. as far as laws go, all laws are null and void, if you want rules you have to make them and ENFORCE them yourself.

At least that is what you are hoping, praying and begging for daily!

Freedom from restrictions of the inferiors so your superior abilities will allow you to soar and reach your full potential.

Perhaps it is due to the more receint historical past here in the states that I have a different perspective. Our ancestors, many of them Englishmen, entered an uncharted and untamed wilderness, and before they got off the convayence they had required each settler to agree to a set of basic laws, based on the English/Roman heritage.

No matter how far back in the woods, or how long it had been since you saw another human, or what borders you might have crossed, the basic laws still applied.

Even atrocities against the "outgroup" the Native Americans, were often prosecuted when comitted outside the sanction of war.

As soon as a group set a rude group of huts down in a remote clearing that had never been inhabited by humans, they were already covered under the laws of Great Britian.

If they broke the law they might not be prosceuted today or tomorrow, but eventually civilization would hold them responsible for their actions.

Outlaws, the ones that could not/would not abide by normal rules, lived a precarious existance between the savage and civilized. Either group would hold them accountable for their actions so they lived a life of constant seclusion, hiding and evasion. It hardly ever worked out well with early death the normal consciquence for their sociopathic behavior.

Even today, in the American culture/legal system, a "bounty hunter", as a private citizen, can cross borders, invade a home without a warrent, detain forceably and bring an outlaw to face a distant court. The civilization rewards them for their efforts.

Outlaw means just that, outside the protection of the law.

Even if GB suffered the remote possibility of a 90% die off of the population you would still have 7 million people in an area the size of my very crowded region here in the States which only has 4.5 million at this moment and has fully functioning civilization complete with laws, enforcement agencies and prisions for those that refuse to or have a compulsion not to conform.

The fall of Rome was a long time ago and with the global situation in place today the "fall" of any region will not have the same long term affect. It will not take 1000 years to reinvent the computer or reinstate the legal system.