Yep. Thanks.
On Jan 14, 2006, at 1:41 PM, John Siple wrote:
So let's quit being paranoid and let some common sense prevail.
Here here.
The law is a very flexible thing folks. If all the laws were
strictly enforced this country would come to a screeching halt. The
underground economy alone is huge. None of those folks on
craigslist are paying their state sales taxes on items sold. Cars
speed. My neighbors make more noise than is legal and throw their
McNuggets wrappers on the street. Some of them do anyway.
Legal is a joke. Money and power is king. Got money and power and
you can use the legal system to get more of both. But as a
practical matter all us little people can and do, and will forever
be borrowing on the airwaves. The idea of always obeying all the
laws seems to me an impossible ideal. I'm not a strict relativist
but I do believe that large corporations will always be using the
law to squeeze money out of the general population, and the jails
and courts will be full of poor people.
For the ultimate example of legal absurdity just take our
president, who does anything he wants in the name of national
security. No warrants necessary. Don't need to tell you all what
I'm doing. I'll just sign a bill with a little "excuse me"
paragraph at the end and call my acts legal. Torture's fine. The
very idea of Presidential Signing Statements is strictly illegal,
against the terms of the Constitution. The executive branch of our
government is not empowered to either interpret the laws nor write
them. But ithese signing statements are tacked onto bills because
there's nobody out there to stop it. If you support him you think
it's not illegal. If you oppose him you want to see the law stop
what's being done. The law itself just sort of floats on the lumpy
shoulders of police and judges and sometimes legislators. Laws are
rules made by men for men's purposes. They have less than nothing
to do with morality. Our broadband habits are harmless compared to
most of what is inflicted on the poor in the name of the law.
Ok, Ok I'm sorry. This isn't a forum for anarchy. Yet there are
some questions of social contract that peek in on us when we're out
there with our portable wireless machines.
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