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Date Posted: Monday, May22, 12:10:pm
Author: go grey
Subject: Re: Homeless Veterans
In reply to: NotSoFast 's message, "Re: Homeless Veterans" on Sunday, May21, 11:09:pm

Nothing that happens in politics is by happenstance. To your point...laws are being crafted to regulate private transactions...period. It's being done under the guise of solutions. There has been a precedence set esconced in law...make unconstitutional decrees, e.g. 'Emergency Declarations', 'Executive Orders' and 'Mandates', to the degree it will not matter when the underlining issue is addressed via legislation. The 'demic threw open this pandora's box for what was the decades' long slow creep subjugation of individual sovereignty. Justice Neil Gorsuch commented on this and draws parallels with the immigration issue and the 'demic . However, keep his comment in context..."rule by indefinite emergency edictit" was allowed to happen and is still being allowed to happen.
"...Fear and the desire for safety are powerful forces. They can lead to a clamor for action—almost any action—as long as someone does something to address a perceived threat. A leader or an expert who claims he can fix everything, if only we do exactly as he says, can prove an irresistible force. We do not need to confront a bayonet, we need only a nudge, before we willingly abandon the nicety of requiring laws to be adopted by our legislative representatives and accept rule by decree. Along the way, we will accede to the loss of many cherished civil liberties—the right to worship freely, to debate public policy without censorship, to gather with friends and family, or simply to leave our homes. We may even cheer on those who ask us to disregard our normal lawmaking processes and forfeit our personal freedoms. Of course, this is no new story. Even the ancients warned that democracies can degenerate toward autocracy in the face of fear.
But maybe we have learned another lesson too. The concentration of power in the hands of so few may be efficient and sometimes popular. But it does not tend toward sound government. However wise one person or his advisors may be, that is no substitute for the wisdom of the whole of the American people that can be tapped in the legislative process. Decisions produced by those who indulge no criticism are rarely as good as those produced after robust and uncensored debate. Decisions announced on the fly are rarely as wise as those that come after careful deliberation.
Decisions made by a few often yield unintended consequences that may be avoided when more are consulted. Autocracies have always suffered these defects. Maybe, hopefully, we have relearned these lessons too."
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-592_5hd5.pdf
By my perspective, "we" have not.

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Replies:

  • Re: Homeless Veterans -- CenHudDude, Monday, May22, 03:37:pm
  • Re: Homeless Veterans -- go grey, Monday, May22, 05:36:pm
  • Re: Homeless Veterans -- Liar, Monday, May22, 08:14:pm
  • Re: Homeless Veterans -- Liar's Blowback, Sunday, May28, 11:05:am
  • Re: Homeless Veterans -- Informed, Monday, May29, 07:03:pm
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