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It's increasingly paying companies to invest more resources, currying favor with government officials rather than investing those resources in real productivity.

This is very true. The return on investment in a Congressman or Senator is upward of 100,000% to a business. This is why McStain/Fienscold will never work. You can’t over come that kind of incentive.

Its just like trying to stop drug trafficking, the lure of huge profits is just to great. The money will find a way to the politician.

You might say, "Williams, there are good reasons for restricting the freedoms of others." You're right, and every tyrant who has ever existed has had what he considered a good reason.

I've been saying this for about a week now on FreeRepublic:

"Each year politicians and bureaucrats pass and implement about 3,000 new laws and regulations. On average, the number of new laws increases each year. They tell us that these are must have laws and regulations that people and society must have. Question: how have people and society survived and even prospered for years and decades prior to the plethora of new, must have laws?
"The only people that need 3,000 new laws and regulations each year are the politicians and bureaucrats."

Why do politicians and bureaucrats need that many new laws each year?

I'll demonstrate by way of example. Civil rights laws are unnecessary and often destructive. But they do make for great look-busy work of parasitical-elite politicians and bureaucrats as they proclaim they're compassionately using government to help minorities and the little guy. Thus, that's supposed to justify their unearned paychecks and unearned power -- usurped livlihoods. Far more often than not they are hindering minorities and the little guy from prosperity creation and accumulation. Prosperity creation, creating and producing values is the legitimate route to earned paychecks and real power. They solve real problems whereas politicians and bureaucrats create problems where the need not exist.

How to protect the little guy:

The individual is the smallest minority. Protect individual-proprerty rights and all larger than one minorities are protected, as is the majority. IMO, civil rights laws are the brain-child of collectivists.

What's wrong with this picture?

Read the Fourth Amendment. Sheesh, we can't even trust our "employees" -- government officials -- to let them into our homes and businesses without a search warrant. But somehow a business is supposed to trust a total stranger with an open door policy. A person/business owner can refuse to allow a government employee access to his property but not a total stranger! And get this, it is the government that can't be trusted without a search warrant that is telling property owners that they must trust total strangers.

Discrimination laws are unjust.

Thanks John:

Here is the real meat of Walter's oped:

Another increasingly prevalent violation of the rule of law is seen in companies using government to overturn lost competitive advantages in the market. The Microsoft case is an example where its competitors, not customers, employed the heavy hand of government to accomplish what they couldn't accomplish in the market. It's increasingly paying companies to invest more resources, currying favor with government officials rather than investing those resources in real productivity.

Whenever a corporation like Whoreacle decides to buy/bribe the business like they did in Kali with Herr Davis, two things happen:

That company decides to invest in politicians instead of research or providing a better product/service with better people. The moment that happens, the corporation's corporate culture changes from good company to sleaze company from top to the bottom.

When a company like Whoreacle is rewarded or a company like Microsoft is punished, a clear message goes out to the CEO's/boards of other companies. That message is: To do business for example in Kali, you have to bribe Davis and his fellow rats. The Rat AG in Kali is still trying to sue and harrass MicroSoft and has done nothing re Whoreacle and the company that is revealed each day to have bribed Davis and his fellow rats including the Kali AG.

For more than a half-century, various elements of the rule of law have been under ruthless attack in America. Private property means the person deemed as the owner makes decisions on its uses, and that applies to the most valuable property we own – ourselves. Sanctions are taken against persons who use their property in ways that violate the property rights of others. However, when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service bans an owner from using part of his property because some animal has chosen it for a habitat, that's a private-property-rights violation, resulting in losses to the owner.

Once again, if you follow it back you find FDR's New Deal Commerce Clause at the root. We need to return to the original intent of the Commerce Clause, and disband every federal agency that has been authorized under the "blank check" interpretation of that clause, and then re-authorize them by amendment, specifying the scope and range of their mission and the limits of their authority, provided we want them back at all.

RULE OF LAW is important.

But as The Scripture says, the letter of the law kills. The Spirit brings liberty.

The law can be used to be brutal, even merciless. And, as we saw with BILLDO AND SHRILLERY, used very manipulatively by clever people. Human systems are human flaws amplified.

Nazi Germany also had rule of law--perhaps even more religiously followed than our own grand land.

NO! The answer lies in another area as some of our best known founders knew full well and stated very candidly.

Freedom and democracy can only be secure and functional when a people are governed INTERNALLY, INTRINSICALLY--as modern research has discovered and difined it, INDIVIDUALLY in the dark alone as well as in the the bright light of a Sunday afternoon church picnic--Freedom and democracy can only be secure and functional when a people are governed by a higher law of right and wrong which derrives from a relationship with Almighty God who knows all, sees all and insures that we reap what we sow.

There will never be enough policemen, courts, free press organs of balance and integrity . . . and watchers of such; and watchers of the watchers--to insure a functional, free society apart from a mostly virtuous populace.

As the Judeo-Christian substrate/foundation has been wholesale dilluted, fractured--lawlessness has increased; neighbor and neighborhood has arisen against neighbor and neighborhood; race against race; interest group against interest group. . . .

But it is not overly logical to be otherwise. If the "American Way"--in and of itself in terms of law--was utopia, we wouldn't need God. The reality is all of the universe from sub-atomic to galactic needs the sustaining active Power and Glory of God to continue in existence from moment to moment. Some are deluded otherwise. Our era will end with vivid demonstrations of the truth of His sustaining as the light gets lighter and the dark gets darker . . . as He illustrates with more overt sustaining and more overt withdrawal of sustaining HIS VERY ACTIVE PART in the affairs of man.

Thankfully, HE IS ALSO ALTOGETHER GOOD; ALTOGETHER LOVE AND HIS MERCY TRIUMPHS OVER HIS JUDGMENT.