Monday, February 22, 2010

The O'Chavez Factor

"If the law authorizes it, nothing is impossible.” [More]
Bill O'Reilly couldn't have said that better himself.
Posted by David Codrea at 2/22/2010 11:46:00 AM

8 comments:

Sean said...

There are millions of dead Jews who could attest to that fact, if they hadn't been killed by it. What is so stupefying is that people see this right in front of them, and they turn around and tell you it's not happening. Cognitive Dissonance.

2/22/2010 12:09 PM
Wyn Boniface said...

You know it used to be legal to harass the Irish.

2/22/2010 12:59 PM
jon said...

a cabal of western intellectual eliteists descended on bangladesh in days gone by, convincing their government to outlaw child labor.

turns out, in a society that just does not have enough stuff, in a society where you have to spend a lot of time in order to get enough marketable money goods so you can trade them for edible survival goods, in a society where children bring in 20% of the household income, in a society that doesn't even have any rich people, whom somehow got their wealth in a method the left would deem legitimate, child labor doesn't go away just because the law says it does. the kids either went into prostitution, or starved to death.

unbelieveable, i know.

2/22/2010 5:53 PM
jon said...

so i guess if the US tries to nuke iran, then chavez can just repeal gravity? shucks, i hope the iranians ratify that fast enough. hooray for the united nations!

2/22/2010 5:54 PM
jon said...

one more. this was posted just today: solving real crimes with tv methods.

The laws of supply and demand, interacting with self-interest, choice, and human action, determine what will and won’t happen, regardless of the intensity of police [ed: government] action. When people are engaged in an activity that is a vice–not a crime–and they know it, no amount mathematical modeling should be used to predict that more coercion is the answer.

just because law is written in english and not in second-order logic does not make it any less subject to the rules of formal systems. it is steeped in formality; the whole point of law is to have a formal system, built out of and on top of correctly identified natural law, and indeed this is why lysander spooner, a lawyer, was so adamant about the meaning of words. the very definitions themselves have consequences. when chavez uses the word "law," he means his whim, or simply, "me."

2/22/2010 6:52 PM
David Codrea said...

L'État c'est Moi.

2/22/2010 6:59 PM
jselvy said...

I got a question. How is this any different than the Kelo vs. New London case?
I hope I spelled that right.

2/22/2010 7:49 PM
Kent McManigal said...

This is what I call "counterfeit law".

2/22/2010 9:23 PM

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