This little missive was prompted by some of my earnest compatriots entreating me to join a demonstration to get some law made. I’m not going to mention the cause. It doesn’t matter.
The Dangers of “There Ought To Be A Law“
What if it turns out to be a bad law? It becomes very difficult to change because there are people profiting from the bad law.
The lessons of Drug Prohibition should be applied to every proposal to get enforcers to mandate your policy prescriptions.
What you are advocating (in fact if not in your mind) is the establishment of a police state. The idea is of course “police them and leave me alone”. But it doesn’t work that way. Because everyone wants their own laws.
Street corner fascism can’t go out of vogue fast enough for me.
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What we need more than any in this country is a House of Repeal. Any member can propose a law for repeal. No filibusters, 50% gets the law repealed, no vetoes.
The alternative is the eventual revolution due to the crushing weight of our laws and giant government.
Bram,
L. Neil Smith, IIRC in “The Probability Broach” had a system of repeal that worked as follows;
If a bad law was nullified 3 times by a citizen jury, the legislative sponsors of the bill were taken out and summarily executed. The only way to avoid this fate was to repeal the bill before the 3rd nullification came down.
I think that it has a great deal to recommend it.