Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Qualified Immunity

Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agency discretion, and may not be reviewed by any court of law or any administrative agency.
Hey, whose money do you think it is, anyway? Besides, what could go wrong?

And why limit such edicts to this department, or this narrowly-defined scope of authority?

[Via Ron W]

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

A Secretary of the Treasury declared that the militia firearm known as the Street Sweeper, a rotary-magazine semi-auto shotgun, was a Class III "destructive device," placing the same limits on a 12-gauge as on submachine guns, suppressors and hand grenades.
Ein Volk, Ein Reich... and Big Brother to lead them.
it's the first thing they think of in every "crisis."

Sean said...

If I read this right, they could purchase my mortgage from it's holder, without my knowledge, and use it as a cattle prod to do their bidding concerning my home. Ah, I hope they bother to check my Irish ancestry, it'll save them some rude shocks later. Sons 'O bitches. The fockin' English tried it before, they'd better be lookin' into those happenstances.

Anonymous said...

Aye, Sean, if it had been my home instead of Mrs. Kelo's, things would have turned out very differently.
In an age when your NEIGHBORHOOD CIVIC ASSOCATION can decide whether your claim to your property outweighs, for instance, the "needs of the many" to not have the American flag displayed, be ready for anything.

The term "fired" comes from the feudal landlords' practice of actually setting homes on fire to break the lease. They made sure the peasants were defanged first.

Anonymous said...

Can immunity from the laws of physics be legislated?