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To: null and void
The government has rules and regulations for everything. You are violating some kind of law right now. If the government wants to be nice, they can be nice. The TSA was nice in the story just posted. If the government wants to exert power, it will exert power. The local police wanted to flex their muscles in the story just posted.

It's the Floyd Ferris thing from Atlas Shrugged. They don't make laws because they want you to follow them. They make laws so that you break them, and then they have grounds to control you. They just don't do it in a mean way 100% of the time. Yet.

3 posted on 02/23/2013 7:45:18 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Nailed it. I may steal that entire post are re-post it some day, several some days.


8 posted on 02/23/2013 7:50:34 PM PST by null and void (Gun confiscation enables tyranny. Don't enable tyranny.)
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Which is why I maintain that there really are few law-abiding citizens just many peaceable ones....at the moment.


22 posted on 02/23/2013 9:39:37 PM PST by yadent
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ClearCase_guy: “They make laws so that you break them, and then they have grounds to control you.”

Some people want laws broken for monetary (red light camera fines, asset forfeiture in drug cases, etc) or other reasons, but it seems highly improbable that that is the primary motive for most law. It seems far more likely that most laws are simply meant to control people and are not specifically designed to create lawbreakers. However, laws that create perverse incentives, like the ones I mentioned above, do deserve extra scrutiny. For example, I think asset forfeiture laws violate private property protections in the US Constitution.


25 posted on 02/23/2013 10:29:04 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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