"Law" is the law: the set of rules that each of us must follow in order to remain in good standing with mainstream society. 

the basics are pretty straightforward...pretty much every legal code you can find from Hammurabi's to your local jurisdiction strongly discourages the killing of human beings, malicious harm, misappropriation of goods, and property damage.

how they word it and what qualifies as any of the above is open to wide interpretation, but these are some of the main concerns of Law.

and yaknow, that makes sense...I don't want anybody kicking down my bedroom door and "discovering" all my meagre possessions Columbus-style, so it's not necessarily Law I have issues with in most cases. 

Law, at its core, is engineered fairness, and fairness is perhaps the greatest human invention.

...but you ever think about what "Order" is?

after all they seem to be pretty much inseparable, Law n Order...they go everywhere together, on the streets, on the screen, and right up into your large intestine if you're not careful.

you see, Order is the application thereof...the filtering of pure Law through social and economic hierarchies to vastly varying effect.

Order stems from the sordid era of monarchic rule, when one's "place" in society was decided from birth. The King was #1 and everybody lined up behind him for the sweetest slices of providence...that's Order.

Order is a maximalist approach to the social construct of crime. it is "rules for thee and none for me." it's what "conservatives" are attempting to conserve.

after all, if Law reigned supreme, would it not be as illegal to siphon off public funds and starve schoolchildren as it is to rob a bank at gunpoint?

if society rested on Law alone, how would people be imprisoned for the possession, transport, and sale of plant byproducts while the State which criminalized them happily collects tax income from related industries?

if Law was the final arbiter of outcomes in society, would some orange ape in an overlong necktie be able to publicly threaten the lives of 100 million human beings while a credible threat against this same individual would risk prosecution, persecution, and death?

the answer, of course, is absolutely not.

Law is clearly the junior partner in the pairing...it's all about Order, if you think about it.

Order is when the same crime means an afternoon at Drivers' Ed for one party and months of jail time, lost employment, and a visibly dented life for another.

Order is when only a "former police officer" can ever commit a crime.

Order is when rapacious pedophile cannibal psychopaths ravage our only world in comfort and impunity while any who actively oppose them live in constant fear for their lives.

the societies that shaped my worldview uphold not Law, but Order...Law is rendered so impotent that activities that result in death or ruination for many can result in a fine, Order confidently hands down a sentence of "unconditional release" for 34 federal felonies, "crimes" that place others in concrete cages.

it would be a "crime" to ransack the British Museum, public hoard of clearly marked stolen goods from around the world.

...and so I guess my message with "¡DÁMELO!" is "fuck that."

upholding Order at the expense of Law will never be sustainable...that's the "social contract" people keep flapping their yaps about.

it's up to us to enforce the terms of that contract...or, failing that, alter them:

[intro]
ya took it from us

we take it back

no more waiting or debating

where it at?

[verse 1]

knock knock who there

all the bills coming due

per our last email

negotiations fell through

we assessed with our ancestors

now we cc'in you

they never lived to see us

make their dreams come true

we ain't come to hurt nobody

put our present in the sack

we need it more than you do 

dontcha worry bout that

had it once and don't forget it

now we coming to collect it

thank you for your attention to this matter

[chorus]

ya took it from us

we take it back

no more waiting or debating

where it at?we tried other ways to do it

but it ain't no talkin to em

so we doing what we doing

I said give it give it to me

damelo

[verse 2]

damn maybe mom or Martin Luther woulda been ashamed

or maybe you never met either or had them to blame

maybe conditions different

maybe I am a sinner

or maybe TV said to

pull the trigger, be a winner

they call me an offender

they call malcontented

but I say what's a prison for

if 45 ain't in it?

why should my cousins starve

while other humans ride a rocket

gotta steal the sunshine 

I'll slide it in my pocket 

[chorus]

[verse 3]

stealing time, stealing hours and legacies

lives and their potential.take em from us

taking energies

steal profits, sharing losses 

bosses splitting entities

stole the past and future

but the one with sticky hands is me?

you steal from us, you maybe settle it in court

you steal from them and that's a no-knock warrant

undercount your hours, you appealing for a check

short 'em 20 dollars, trooper kneeling on your neck

exploitation make a killing in the stock

but shoot or loot a suit and you'll be chillin' in a box

so skip me quacking on about violence and lawless

depending who you are, it's inherent in all this

damelo, damelo, dame, dame, dame, dame

si no me entiendes I say render it upon me

damelo!

[chorus]

story's in the escalation...we start off nice and civil with a tersely worded email, ponder why it didn't work (yet again), then decide to do the only thing that actually sticks.

they say violence is not the answer then send us off to history class. funny, that.

I'm not here to parse out the moral aspects of revolt against a fundamentally flawed system, go argue with the nearest wall...I'm here to tell you I'm fed the fuck up with Order.

anybody who wants an orderly society more than a lawful one hasn't been paying attention.

like, it's more illegal to take this joint I'm smoking right now across the border than it is to run a child sex trafficking ring on a private island.

you mean to tell me they didn't even...idk, impound the island? turn it into a wildlife preserve or whatever?

so what the fuck does any of it mean anyway?

why do any of us participate in a system that has been directly designed to our detriment?

why play a rigged game?

I suspect--I hope!--that it's because many of us have never even considered it: the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

maybe one day, if we're lucky, we can make up some rules worth following.

all power to The People.

--Flor!