[nopardons]

Read the book I refcommended. And it was TEDDY, not Franklin, who got the ball rolling.

But then, you'd prefer to live in a " LORD OF THE FLIES " kind of world, than one that had some laws.

[billbears]

You really don't have an argument for anything do you? The Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 established the SEC. What Teddy may have done to 'get the ball rolling' didn't put securities under the rule of the national government. FDR did that.

But then, you'd prefer to live in a " LORD OF THE FLIES " kind of world, than one that had some laws.

No just a Republic where conservatives don't run to the national government for a solution and praise Acts passed by socialist regimes as a good thing. Of course I can't expect you to understand that as you aren't anymore conservative than most in Washington. Republican maybe, but not conservative

[Don Joe]

But then, you'd prefer to live in a " LORD OF THE FLIES " kind of world, than one that had some laws.

Of course not. Who in his right mind would want a "young boy's reenactment of the French Revolution on a deserted island"?

After all, they may not have been old crones, and they certainly didn't sit there knitting, but they certainly enjoyed the same "liberty" enjoyed by the mobs during the French Revolution.

The setting doesn't really matter, it's the mob mentality that sets the tone.