At an increasing rate, various parts of government are placing
themselves above its own law. Its spokesman proclaim loud and often that this is a
"nation of laws, not of men" and that "nobody is
above the law", not even high honchos in their outfit - and
from time to time they offer proof, by caging one of their own.
Texas Rep Tom
DeLay comes to mind. George
Hansen of Idaho, who just happened to be a vigorous critic of the
IRS, was imprisoned too, for failing to disclose certain
financial matters. Too late, his conviction was overturned. The reason for this pompous propaganda is to convey and
maintain the impression that "the law" is something
sacred and superior, before which all ordinary mortals ought to
bow down, even the less-ordinary ones in government. Never mind
that these creeps are the ones who actually write the law, by a
process that has been unfavorably compared to the manufacture of
sausages; obviously laws are the outcome of political wrangling,
favor-trading and deal-making, but by pretending that even they
are subject to the law, their miserable, useless and destructive
regulations are somehow elevated to a superhuman status. Despite the importance (to them) of maintaining this pretense,
more and more they are no longer bothering - and in an important sense,
they never did bother. They make laws against stealing, yet massive
theft (they call it taxation, but it walks and quacks just like a duck)
is the whole source of government funding. They outlaw murder, yet
exempt themselves right there in the Constitution; "Congress shall
have power to... declare war" and war is nothing
if not mass murder (and to top that off, they haven't even bothered to
obey that law about declaration since 1941.)
They forbid the use of narcotics, yet one of the largest industries
they license is the pharmaceutical one, with truckloads of money
passing between them and the manufacturers, and in my State they
even operate a retail monopoly on one of the most dangerous drugs,
alcohol; they are the biggest drug lords around. Eric Peters gives another, sinister example in a recent LRC
column: certain government toll roads will no longer accept
cash, even though in plain sight on every Federal Reserve Note
are printed the words "This Note is Legal Tender", by
which is meant all must accept it in payment, by law,
even though we recognize that it is just a worthless piece of
paper. That's the foundation of the government's system of
financial fraud. Yet now, their road agents are openly flouting
that law. Now, in the coming zero goverment society, competing road
owners will be free to offer customers whatever terms of use they
wish; but the company that refuses payments is, in a free market,
one with a short life expectancy. Perhaps it will offer discounts
to users of an E-Z Pass, because the cost of administering that
is lower than manning a cash booth - fair enough. Perhaps they
will offer coin baskets for cash customers, but not a series of
manned kiosks. But if they decline payment, they'll lose the
toll; and there won't be any need for a law to encode that piece
of common sense.
11A064
Above the Law
by Jim Davies, 3/5/2011
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