Regulations aren't worth crap

[Klukie]

without the will to enforce them. That is all.

[RandomThoughts]

1. Half of law is enforcement.

If a law is not enforced, and enforced equally, it does not exist. Actually it is worse then just not existing, because it can be used for targeted justice where people are picked then some law is found they might have broken.

[90-percent]

2. Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa spoke of the concept of "mass criminalization".

There are so many laws out there that we are all guilty of something - just think how many laws you break when you drive, for example.

So, if you're an "enemy of the state", the state will always be able to find something to arrest you on.

LOOK AT ELLIOT SPITZER!

I think "they" have dirt on all their "enemies" and when their "enemy" gets too uppity, they review their NSA tapes on the individual, and then publicly destroy them.

LOOK AT SCOTT RITTER! He is somebody that really said what GWB did not want to hear! Now he's got internet sex solicitation issues.

Thanks to GWB's warrentless wiretapping, anybody in America can be destroyed selectively when the time is right. Like when they speak out publicly against the actions of their government.

-90% jimmy

[truedelphi]

4. Yep it was the good ol people at Homeland Security that noticed the

Wire money transfers that Spitzer was doing for his escort service ladies.

That is what caught him.

So as long as we are the terrorists, this is how the game will be played.

Every breath we breathe, every move we make, they have a way of knowing.

Which makes a person realize if the Powers that be can spend all the time to have two and even three different groups of police telling some tourist he cannot take photos of the Lincoln Memorial, they aren't too concerned about the "Real terrorists"

[quaker bill]

3. However most of law

is based in at least 85 percent voluntary compliance. Lower rates than this are unenforceable. Of course, there is nothing like some fairly regular high profile prosecution to encourage "voluntary compliance".