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You Can Pass Laws But Will People Obey?

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:03 am
by MSimon
Retirees buy discount drugs from Canada. Families share prescription antibiotics with other family members for whom they have not been prescribed. A man with cancer smokes marijuana even though he doesn’t live in a medical marijuana state. When we are driving at night and we come to a T in the road with a stop sign and there is no one else around, we slow down and roll through the stop sign. We eschew seatbelt laws when we take short safe jaunts up the block. We let our kids do a little practice driving in the parking lot before they get their learners permit.

We don’t recycle every time they tell us to. We top off the gas tank even though they tell us not to. If they announce they are going to illegalize normal light bulbs, we buy more, not less of them to stock up. If we think that gasoline will kill the poison ivy better than some biodegradable eco-approved watered down stuff, we use the gas. Even though certain states had anti-sodomy statutes on the books up until just a few years ago, gay people had sex in their homes all the time, and did not give a thought to the ordinances.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jerrybowyer ... mes-a-day/
The USSR looked like this for decades before it collapsed.

Personally I only feel bound by natural law (the speed of light) and those laws which obvious morality dictates (Don't steal - because I do not wish to be stolen from. As an engineer I keep my word - because without a degree it is all I have. I do not lie - because I do not wish to be lied to.) But government rules? Strictly optional.

Here is a law I can easily follow:

"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual."
-- Thomas Jefferson

So when it comes to law I'm a Jeffersonian. And I encourage others to do the same. If the government doesn't like it I suggest the government cut back on the laws and regulations.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:27 am
by MSimon
The comments here are very good:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/6104/ameri ... mes-a-day/
Politicians and bureaucrats know that an honest man cannot be controlled. So, to make it easier to control us, they make everything illegal, they make criminals out of everyone. We notice that there are hundreds, thousands, of new laws that take effect on January 1 each year. News stations make note of it, but do not say what they are. (It would take too long.) One of our friends, a police officer, told me that he could pull anyone over, anytime of day or night, for some violation. Instinctively, we know this to be true. That's why we cringe whenever a police car pulls up behind us. We're guilty, we just don't know of what.

We seem to be coming to a juncture where everything in USmerica is forbidden, especially that which is permitted.

Posted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:34 am
by MSimon
And this:
This is, on a more minor scale, the same thing George Washington and Tom Jefferson and Ben Franklin and John Adams were facing back when. Of course, as I say, the situation they faced wasn't as extreme. No one was forcing their children to attend schools that filled their heads with outright lies. No one was saying that ALL their wealth was subject to the whims of the central government. No one was telling them that they would no longer be able to see the physician of their choice or choose the therapeutic approach they believed most beneficial to themselves or their families. No one was forcing them to line up and take their shoes off and be abused by a bunch of wanna-be prison guards. No one was shipping their friends off to prison for possessing "controlled substances." There were NO controlled substances. No one was telling them they couldn't possess firearms to defend themselves. No one was suggesting that a congress of foreign powers, some of them worshipping Marx or self or Allah and waiting for 12th Imam to return, would be writing rules for them to live by, while they, Washington and company, would of course be expected to pay for the handsome quarters their oppressors (exempt from our "law") would be occupying on the banks of the East River.