Some of the more inventive crimes dreamt up by Labour include "disturbing a pack of eggs when directed not to by an authorised officer" and reporting the door of a merchant ship to be closed and locked when it isn't. [More]They've become a Monty Python skit, haven't they?
Except it's not funny.
[Via Kurt Hofmann]
6 comments:
Monty Python, like SNL, stopped being funny five minutes and 35yrs ago. The govt. in England is trying to fulfill Ayn Rands' estimation of a govt. that makes everything illegal in order to control every damned thing it can. Such a govt. will ultimately lose control of everything and expire.
Just wondering; has anyone done a similar study here in the states?
I know there are more laws now than when I first became a peace officer back in '71.
Of course a lot of our laws weren't legislated, but are regulations dreamed up by bureaucrats who've been delegated the power to write regulations that have the effect of law.
[W-III]
The new motto of the English Bureaucracy:
"If people get the government they deserve then they deserve to get it good and hard."
Texas tallies more than 2300 felonies and in the last session the lege invented several dozen new crimes while increasing penalties for a couple dozen others. Yep, we're sure tough on crime, and no, you cannot know the crime you'll soon be accused of. Isn't there a new book making the rounds, 'Three Felonies a Day', that pulls the covers off fezilla's ever growing list of criminal deeds?
Whatever isn't mandatory or "permitted" is prohibited.
When do we stop buying the permits?
A great thing I learned in jr high 45 yeard ago that the Texas Legislature only meets every two years. Imagine what it would be then?
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