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The people in power need to realize we have too many laws.

No one is safe in such a legal environment, not even the powerful.


5 posted on 03/13/2018 12:09:13 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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"Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against, then you'll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures.

We are after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you'd better get wise to it.

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 it 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 lawbreakers, and then you cash in.

Now that's the system, Mr. Rearden, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with.

Atlas Shrugged

24 posted on 03/13/2018 12:45:03 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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The people in power need to realize we have too many laws.

No one is safe in such a legal environment, not even the powerful.
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IMO, that would be the ONLY reason the thought would even *dawn* in their pointy, little heads; hopefully, not until the bars lock behind ‘em.


39 posted on 03/13/2018 2:04:31 PM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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