'Public Stoning' Considerations

 Host A 12013 Public Stoning Considerations

 

1—There is more than what I write below.

2—Key: ‘Wholeness’ the goal of the law—Rushdoony

3—Exegetical things later.

4—It will  take time. Leithart in ‘The End of Protestantism’ writes about Tilly’s ‘The Formation of National States in Western Europe’ that it was centuries from over 500 to the few, and not unaccompanied by violence.

5—We have some examples of non-monopoly (polypoly?)

     a—Fictional, Heinlein’s ‘Moon is a Harsh Mistress (jury chosen from passersby, judge okayed by all              parties, IIRC), Godfather opening sequence (‘No, your daughter is still alive’ is response to a request for killing of the perpetrators), also ‘Looking Backward 2162’ portrays a village-oriented system, the President as fund-raiser

     b—Arbitration for stock market disputes

     c—Ethnic, religious: Jewish diamond  merchants, Islamic money transfers

     d—Hoppe claims in ‘Economy, Society, and History’ that a % of Rabbinic fines were paid to the authority in exchange

     e—History

     f—Hoppe again alloidally nobles judged

     g—Aborigines in Australia did something like elders made restitution, offender worked to pay bak, when all made whole, offender set up in business, or kept working

     h—Leithart again, marriage courts as uniting Christians

6—Absent a Hoppean collapse, which would engender return to natural leaders as judges, to get to establishment of a more Biblical system, we might do 2 things

     a—Since it’s ‘Jeremiah Time’ (Jordan0 were we to serve ‘for the good of the city, as Daniel did, we might get Jerusalem back (Ezra, etc.)

     b—Wholeness in the easier parts, such as were a young man to steal mechanics’ tools, the elders of the church would pay restitution (Biblical amount to make whole), the thief would work for, ideally, the elder’s business (mechanic) until the debt is paid that the church paid as restitution, and thus be made whole, as the thief is made whole, and then with feasting, the one now made whole is set up to start his own business, or continues to work for the elder

7—Thus we show the making whole

8—As we show this in part, we gradually evangelize