They assume everything is illegal and self police because that's what the tyrant programmed them to do.

Same effect in HN comments also. Many people hold back from expressing their real views here because they are afraid to run afoul of the Flag Police.

They actually did change that law. Citizens of the Great Empire are now required to identify themselves to any cop who asks their name. For the childrens.

The "show him your government ID which you are now required to keep on you" part hasn't yet been instated, but it's coming. That will be introduced along with a whole heap of other big anti-freedom changes (like Central Bank Digital Currency) during the coming World War.

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May I suggest reading a dictionary?

Incidentally it appears that the meaning of sin or breaking God's laws came before the meaning of breaking secular law.

You don't get to decree whatever it is that you like and then call it "law". If a "law" is un-Constitutional, as most US "laws" are--or in violation of the highest laws of the Universe (the Laws of Nature), as the most US "laws" are--then it is not law. It's the scribblings of a tyrant.

There just might be an entire army of goons ready to enforce that so-called "law." With an Empire, there always is. But any so-called "law" enacted without permission of the The People are in fact the workings of a tyrant and deserve no serious consideration among free individuals, except whatever minimum is necessary to protect oneself from the tyrant while awaiting (and planning for) his inevitable downfall.

Oddly enough, not only can a word have multiple meanings, but a meaning can have multiple words.

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It's probably a better system for what to live by. The government can and will imprison anyone they want by a variety of methods they have for putting anyone they want away at any time. If you follow "god's / natural law" as they put it, it is a better guide to whether you will anger some victim who will call the police on you. Most of the rest of the law are just the excuse the powers that be will use for putting you away if the powers that be find you threaten their order. The vast majority of victimless crime laws are selectively chosen to be "enforced" for the actual reason that you've done something to challenge the ruling class, trying to adhere to them as if they are applied as 'rule of law' is probably irrational.

I make it a point to keep a healthy distance between myself and Imperial Officials.

During any unavoidable interaction with Imperial Officials, I always pretend subservience and submission. I am aware that many others do also.

The result is a large and growing body of people who secretly despise Imperial Officials, while said officials are under the increasingly detached from reality impression that everyone loves them. It usually doesn't end well for them.