Spirit Of Law in America is unequivocally, unwholesomely and unapologetically Mercenary. One can guess — rah rah, New World Order — that it is similar throughout developed countries. Do as we say AND as we do, in THIS instance, bearing in mind that doing as we say while IGNORING what we do is at other times the order of the day. To keep things lively, one is now obliged to GUESS at what is Required. When one considers Development, I really do think that DEVELOPING INTO WHAT is a ball on which we are meant to continually train our sensibilities.
Gordon Covitz has an on-point opinion piece in the September 27 Wall Street Journal entitled, “You Commit Three Felonies A Day.” It focuses on how leap-and-bound advances in technology compound the abiding twin problems, Vagueness and Slowness, that already infect and debilitate an embarrassingly infamous American Legal System.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842.html
It’s twue, it’s twue. Now we don’t know what the hell we’re doing at warp-speed.
But kindly allow me to direct an interrogation-grade klieg light onto three fly-over points that are playing quietly, like middle children, within the article.
UNO: ”This is a common problem in securities laws, which Congress leaves intentionally vague, encouraging regulators and prosecutors to try people even when the law is unclear.”
DOS: ”‘Since the New Deal era, Congress has delegated to various administrative agencies the task of writing the regulations,” even as “‘Congress has demonstrated a growing dysfunction in crafting legislation that can in fact be understood.’” Prosecutors identify defendants to go after instead of finding a law that was broken and figuring out who did it.”
TRES: ”These miscarriages are avoidable.”
Um, er, ah . . . B.ull S.hit, M.ore S.hit, P.iled high and D.eep.
Which segues to a Truth that I mention whenever it is germane to a conversation. AMERICA’S IVY LEAGUE UNIVERSITIES ARE CRANKING OUT A DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF RATS.
Mercenary + Mean-Spirited = Double Trouble.