Since the time of the Conquest, alien laws and regulations had been imposed on the Guatemalan people - a legal system that protected the conquerors and destroyed the centuries-old organizational structures of the indigenous population. For nearly five centuries the system for the administration of justice has served those who held economic and political power.
Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it (Frédéric Bastiat).