01-12-2018, 03:34 AM
(01-11-2018, 06:49 AM)nebraska Wrote: You might get arrested for loitering, but just stand on any street corner and watch how many drivers use mobile phones while driving, have unbuckled seatbelts, litter, speed, run redlights, and eat to see the decline.
Since everything is illegal, no cares about breaking the law because even existing is a crime now.
Listen to what the author of Three Felonies a Day has to say about this.
What this also indicates is that people do not on the whole respect the system and are in fact ignoring it because they understand the practical limitations of the government's power. Gary North has some interesting things to say about this. It would also explain why the government like to try to make object lessons out of people like the Bundy family because they know it as well.
A system that has essentially lost the support of the common man who believes it to be corrupt can not endure for long. Yet another sign of the decline of an empire.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises