Arbitrary and capricious lawlessness

Washington Times ^ | Friday, May 17, 2002 | Paul Craig Roberts

[JohnHuang2]

Americans reassure themselves about their country's competitive future by invoking the U.S. legal system. Americans think they need not worry about corporations deserting the protection of the U.S. legal system merely to gain access to cheap labor abroad. Americans believe cheap labor countries are legally undeveloped and cannot compete with the rule of law and protection of contracts and property that the U.S. provides.

[JohnHuang2]

Friday, May 17, 2002

Quote of the Day by backhoe 5/17/03

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[madfly]

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[Joe Brower]

Today not even lawyers know what the law is

Or care.

God save the Republic.

[A. Pole]

Mexico and China, where difficulties that arise can be handled with a bribe or a political understanding, have fewer legal unknowns and risks than the U.S.

Their legal system is simpler too. In most of the countries the law is based on codexes following the example of Napoleon code. This is the legal equivalent of metric system versus system of feet/miles/galons/pounds etc ...

[AUgrad]

• Asset freeze and forfeiture laws that have destroyed the security of property.

• And Benthamite legal influences that have stripped away the individual's protections, which were once the glory of the Anglo-American legal system

There's the crux of the whole matter,the collective over the individual. Raw unfettered Marxism wrapped in nationalism disguised as democracy.

[RLK]

Any day now a burglar, injured while breaking into a home, will sue the homeowner for not leaving the key in the lock. (I will not be surprised if I receive 100 letters asking: "Where have you been? It has already happened.")

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This has happened. I used to get legal briefs that I wish I still subscribed to:

A burglar came into a house in the middle of the night. He tripped over one of the kid's toys and fell down the stairs. He successfully sued the family for damages.

[Free the USA]

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[varon]

In the U.S. today, law is so absurd that an American lawyer, A. James Clark, has filed suit against the U.S. government for $41 million on behalf of families of 11 Mexicans, who died of thirst while illegally attempting to enter into Arizona from Mexico. The plaintiffs' legal claim is that the U.S. government was negligent for not leaving water tanks along the route to aid the immigrants in their illegal entry.

I’m just waiting for the day when someone with Mr. Clark’s mindset sues GOD because of the sexual misconduct of Catholic priests. After all, He is their ultimate superior.

[DLfromthedesert]

Mr. Clark should be deported to Mexico. His neighbors should shun him. If I lived near him, I'd put dogpoop on his doorstep.

[lodwick]

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[BillofRights]

The powers-that-be intentionally created a system of arbitrary and capriciuos lawlessness. They don't want standards or anchors (like the Constitution). They want complexity and confusion. That way, they can interpret any law or interpret the actions of any person in a way that best advances their political goals and power accrual.

Does anybody think this is all happening by accident? These tyrants know how to steal our freedoms, property, and Rights. They can look to generations past and other societies for the "enslavement formula." The fact that they are so successful is not surprising. What is mind-boggling, though, is how many smart, articulate people cannot see what is happening and even defend the STATE's power grab -- yes, many right here on FreeRepublic.