Comments on: Bloggin’ da law

By: Lyle

Lyle — Sat, 14 Jan 2006 04:41:33 +0000

Your dad spoke wisely. Ignorance and confusion give them more latitude. Clarity, precision, as is obvious from reading the Constitution, constrains them.

Maybe there is another clue as to why nearly every single one them supports a form of socialized education.

Their power requires a population of losers, dupes, and weaklings. A society filled with frightened, ignorant victims, quivering like pathetic, disfunctional blobs of Jell-O, frightened of the air, afraid of their food, distrustful of their neighbors, blaming their political opponents for the bad weather.

By: _Jon

_Jon — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:47:43 +0000

My dad exlained once that they intentionally make the laws obtuse in order to help ensure an income for themselves and their peers as lawyers.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:38:35 +0000

Lyle, ron paul pushed a bill where each law had to say that. It didn’t pass but it’d be nice to see some of these guys’ justifications.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:48:44 +0000

How about;

5. Cite the exact language in the U.S. Constitution that specifically grants Congress the authority to enact said law.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 18:11:54 +0000

I think it should be a law, funny irony, that any body who votes on a law must have read it. I know for sure that it would cut all of that leagelese out.

I agree, however, we have a small problem of enforcement. you see, politicians lie (they also cheat and steal, but that is not germane to the issue at hand)

Maybe we can get the Serjeant at Arms (who’s salary gets determined by those congress-critters) to enforce the law?

Far better would be a separate branch of government who’s sole purpose is to pass resolutions striking passages from the US code.

By: t3rrible

t3rrible — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 17:43:29 +0000

I think it should be a law, funny irony, that any body who votes on a law must have read it. I know for sure that it would cut all of that leagelese out. Most of our wonderful legislatures cannot understand the funny papers and we let them decide on what is or is not a law???

I read about a judge who applied a “common sense verdict” to a case, holy crap who would have ever thought of that?

I don’t think that common sense is so common anymore.

By: AnalogKid

AnalogKid — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:56:39 +0000

I didn’t count the number of words, but I followed the rest of his rules on a real ‘jem’ out of WA.