I contend that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villagairossa is a carpetbagger and a charletan, but that is another story.

I contend that the overwhelming majority of the penalties, fees and fines that are foisted upon the Public. . . parking tickets, speeding tickets, moving violation tickets, many of the licenses and most of the fees constitute COVERT TAXATION. American Officials are legislating restraints and punishments chiefly as revenue-generating schemes.

Though we are daily under a vague but lethal threat of terrorist attack, though gang bangers are proliferating during the Financial Fiasco, though drug cartels are brutally engaging along the Mexican-American border that is brief hundreds of miles south of Los Angeles, L.A.P.D. still hides in the bushes to issue red-light and speed violation tickets. (Because the very last thing I need is trouble with L.A.P.D., let us be clear that I am clear that the cheesy nickel-and-diming is a Top-Down mechanism.) Meter Maids and Butlers actually WAIT for parking meters to expire in order to issue parking tickets.

I contend that American Officials are knowingly and increasingly acting in Bad Faith.

NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION, remember? I don’t know about the rest of y’all, but I have ZERO representation in government.

None of this is complicated, not even Derivatives.

Derivatives are bullshit. The only thing that’s complicated about bullshit is why anyone puts up with it while they try to figger it out.

There are Ethical Business Practices and there’s Lyin’ Cheatin’ Stealin’ Freewheeling.

There are Good Guys and there are Bad Guys.

There is the Spirit of Law — and there is Tyranny.

Among the tyrannically oppressed, there are those who are simply subjugated and there are those who are brazenly exploited.

Americans are among the latter.

Land of the fee and home of the knave.