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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins

We simply cannot pass enough laws to make stupid people behave, much less smart. The idiots out there will always be idiots, no matter how many different ways we try to slow them down and out smart them. "Never underestimate the brilliance of a fool" when it comes to new and creative ways to fukk up and make themselves a hazard to the rest of us.

The hand-wringing ninnies (the worst sort of fools, by the way) see the passing of endless laws, of endless layered and often contradictory laws, as a "solution". These ninnies assume too much. They give their adversaries too much credit. They actually think the fools are paying attention, and will straighten up and fly right if the law tells them to. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The net result of all of this, the only tangible result of all of this, is that the police and other officials have ever more justification to harangue honest, peaceful citizens. And not for any harm they did, really, but for what could have happened. They bust citizens' balls over "crimes" or "infractions" with no victims. Add to that the new-found profit motive for enforcement in every little god damn one-horse town, and even in the bigger municipalities, and we are faced with one hell of an unholy mess. Profit-driven, victimless "law enforcement" targeted at the non-criminal, non-violent citizen population.

This simply has to stop. It "prevents" nothing - the target audience isn't paying attention, and never will. The rest of us shouldn't have to put up with the b.s. preventative enforcement and its encroachment on our liberties.

One of the things I absolutely love about Pelican is that you can occasionally (upon sifting through all the usual boring, repetitive blather) discern a really valuable nugget of insight or wisdom. This is one such nugget. JH gets a gold star for his post - absolutely dead on the mark and well-put. It'd be my honor to buy you a beverage of your choice someday.