There's no way to rule innocent men

Comment #12

jim695 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:50:37 GMT

Whether that was due to simple apathy on our part or whether it was due to clever engineering on their part no longer matters; we now find ourselves completely at the mercy of the whims of our elected officials. Unfortunately, those who favor a revolution are scattered far and wide across the nation and, since we are not organized and united as a single lobby, we will be picked off and nullified, one by one. We will be vilified in the media and presented, not as revol... [ More ]

Comment #11

jim695 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:37:44 GMT

That's what happens when we elect lawyers and accountants to represent us and to run our government. They all feel that they must justify themselves by authoring bills in order to cement their respective places in American history. Do we really need those laws? Well, certainly some of them are necessary since, after all, it's generally accepted that we are "a nation of laws." But, from what I've observed, we seem to have run out of genuine issues which require any kind of action on th... [ More ]

Comment #10

jarasan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:05:54 GMT

During the eulogy of TKennedy BO said with great pride how many laws were created at the hands of TKennedy 1000+, wow. who gives a $^$%%. There are too many laws, the congress should be prevented from creating any more laws. It seems it is the only thing congress is interested in is control, cap and trade, hr3200, fairness BS doctrine, outrageous! Think about it, if we sent congress to the moon would the country be better off? You bet! The congress is malignant tumor on the economy, the people, the freedom, and the productivity of the USA. The congress produces nothing, it just steals and stifles the citizens of the USA and if it isn't stopped there will be a revolution.... [ More ]

Comment #9

time*treat — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:05:22 GMT

@jxp: We've had the red-light cameras for some years. As jim695 points out, they don't make things better - except for the revenuers.

Comment #8

jim695 — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 04:36:07 GMT

"It sound like they're trying to catch people who run RED lights, by reducing the time you have when it turns YELLOW." It's true; that's EXACTLY what they've been doing, or trying to, all over the country. I've been a member of the National Motorists Association for the past eight years, and they've been fighting this issue (and the companies who manufacture the camera systems) as hard as they can. They've gathered stats from every state that allows red-light cameras, and they've... [ More ]

Comment #7

justxploring — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:14:10 GMT

I just looked it up. Very sad. What an atrocity too. I mean, the ruling is saying the woman should not have any expection of protection from her local police department and, therefore, had no right to sue

Comment #6

justxploring — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 00:05:49 GMT

http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/california-judge-declares-red-light-camera-program-illegal-and-void/ It sound like they're trying to catch people who run RED lights, by reducing the time you have when it turns YELLOW.

Comment #5

time*treat — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:25:02 GMT

My mix-up, there are so many of these. It's Castle Rock v. Gonzales

Comment #4

time*treat — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 22:19:15 GMT

Drive? They tax your gas. Drive a car that gets more miles per gallon? Now, they want to tax you by the mile (type 'tax by the mile' into a search engine) *in addition to* by the gallon. As far as police being there to catch "bad guys", I'll refer you to Heller vs. D.C.

Comment #3

justxploring — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:13:45 GMT

However, I do agree with the quote, because I was just saying this the other day. A sheep farmer has to have a flock or he has no livelihood. Back in college, I remember reading Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents. Although he often was talking about latent sexual desires, he theorized that Civilization was a living entity and had to control & punish the individual's primal instincts in order to survive. Maybe one day we'll all live in The Village. "Be seeing you... [ More ]

Comment #2

konane — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 21:11:06 GMT

Apparently people who both embrace and create with negative energy would be my guess. Only a guess though.

Comment #1

Rick G — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:27:53 GMT

Considering human beings are not naturally law breakers, this makes a lot of sense for the control matrix. Make everything subjectively a crime, including thought. Another good scam...wonder who dreams this stuff up?

Original Blog Entry: There's no way to rule innocent men

time*treat — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:30:29 GMT

There's no way to rule innocent men.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.

Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.

One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone?

But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system ... --Dr. Floyd Ferris, in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (1957)

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