Occupy Wall Street and The Rule of Law

In the local paper (The Kansas City Star) yesterday, there was a letter to the editor that said The Ten Commandments were the basis of our laws. My thought was: There aren't that many people that can be that stupid, is there? A lot of people in jail for adultery or not honoring their parents? If there was a $10 fine for using the Lord's name in vain, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have a national debt. No, our laws aren't set down from the Ten Commandments. How we want people to act, how we perceive people and their actions, our social mores, they may be based on The Ten Commandments, and in most communities, are based on them. But our laws are based on English justice that goes back to the Magna Carta. Barons forcing the King to codify laws and abide by them. This was later expanded to freemen, and then all men, which we now in America think of as We The People. Now what does this have to do with Occupy Wall Street? Well, this is the people telling the King that codified laws must be abided. Who is King? That would be Wall Street, who has basically run rough-shod over the economy, ruining lives and leading the world to the brink of a world-wide Depression. Occupy Wall Street has simply reminded not only Wall Street but all of America that people have rights, and codified laws must be obeyed. Now Cain, Cantor, Perry, Palin and others have decried this action by the people. Occupy Wall Street  may be non-political and broad-based, but it isn't hard to see where its enemies are.