The Obeyers 3
Corruption, Obeyers and the Public
Congress Passing Endless “Laws”
As of December 23, 2024, during the 118th United States Congress (2023-2024), over 19,000 bills have been introduced. This total includes various types of legislative proposals, such as bills, resolutions, and concurrent resolutions. Each proposed bill, along with its enabling legislation, requires about two thousand pages to describe what it is about.
These bills are introduced at a rate of about sixty per day.
The US Congress is in session on average 155 days per year.
Therefore, the US Congress votes on about 120 thousand pages of Law every day they are in session.
Not one person elected to Congressional office claims to have read very much, if any, of it.
In the past year, 2024, of the 9,500 proposed laws that the Congress voted on, Eighty Two of the big ones were turned into Law. And, according the MSM, on Christmas Eve, President Joe Biden signed in another Fifty Four.
So there’s no way for anyone to even keep abreast of all the laws. Incredibly, The Obeyers will still insist that, yes, you have to follow all this legislation they pass.
Which reminds of someone arguing for the death penalty who said, “That doesn’t matter!” when told that under the death penalty, innocents are mistakenly executed.
(The main reason you don’t, or shouldn’t, allow a death penalty in your country is because the government uses it as a political tool, to get rid of those it finds inconvenient, not for “justice.” Any individuals are free to go out and exercise their own justice on some horrible offender, and can take their chances with the jury, which probably won’t convict.)
No Firewall
Thanks to the Obeyers, we have to put up with police corruption.
On The Shield, a TV show about corrupt cops, note that no one ever said, “Oh, that’s so unrealistic, the police would never do that!”
The cops set up confrontations with innocent people because they’re afraid to confront real criminals, so they look for opportunities to delay-delay, like at traffic stops, where they terrorize nominally innocent people, detain them for hours, harass and harangue. And, they might “get $200/hr. overtime!” They aren’t shy to say so, it’s an open secret.
No one seems to care about how outrageous this system is. They aim to escalate all traffic stops to drug and alcohol busts. They’ll bust you for a seed a hitchhiker left.
By the way, where were the “helpful lawyers” before the internet busted all these scams wide open and showed evidence of this nasty behavior? Now, they’re all over the web, with YouTube videos in evidence of corruption, when they can rack up $$$ for “views.”
Laws Are Eternal
About that “three laws a day” fallacy...
The average citizen does not “break three laws a day, unawares,” but may well break various “acts, statutes and regulations.” But those are not laws.
One of the touch-points to determine what an authentic law is, is it has to be eternal.
Which means, something that is not law one day, cannot be law, the next day, and vice-versa.
That “three laws a day” nonsense is a psychological game. Supposedly meant to warn you of government encroachment, it actually reinforces the falsehood that all this mumbo-jumbo that they’re “passing” is law.
Fiat Crimes
Now, crimes by fiat, or government decree (basically, malum prohibitum crimes, the main difference being that using the term, “fiat” implies a questioning of legitimacy), are not crimes at all.
The Obeyers will reliably chirp, “If the government says so, of course it’s a crime!”
Crimes by fiat are constructions, a cheap trick with no substance, unfortunately accepted and given credence due to the foolishness of a gullible public.
No Rollbacks
There have been no serious efforts to initiate large-scale rollbacks of false law, when it should be a top priority. If bad law were to be removed — say California rolled back photo camera ticketing — such law should be rolled back in all states, in fact in all countries.
California didn’t, of course. But six states do ban both red-light and speed cameras statewide: Maine, Mississippi, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, and West Virginia.
Well, we know if there are any inconsistencies, it can’t be law. If photo ticketing laws are bad in one spot, they are bad everywhere. So why, when those six states banned traffic cameras, didn’t California and the rest of the states follow suit?
Commerce Clause
Speaking of inconsistencies in law between states, that was the sort of thing the Commerce Clause was meant to address (at least for commercial activities). For some reason (we all know the reason), the U.S. Congress misapplies the Commerce Clause (it exploits the Constitution when convenient).
Perplexity.ai provides a summary.
The Commerce Clause grants Congress authority over interstate commerce. Found in Article I, Section 8, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, it empowers federal regulation to prevent state trade barriers.
Text and ScopeThe clause states: “The Congress shall have Power... To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.” It covers three areas: foreign commerce, interstate commerce, and trade with Native American tribes, creating a national free trade zone.
Key InterpretationsEarly Supreme Court rulings (e.g., Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824) affirmed broad federal power over navigation and trade, limiting state interference. Modern expansions (New Deal era onward) allow regulation of activities affecting interstate commerce, like production and labor, even if intrastate.
This novel idea that the clause allows regulation of private business, just because they ship out of state, or people, because they cross state boundaries, and buy some gas out of state, is an “interpretation,” and is ultra vires.
As noted above, it is a “modern expansion,” that has nothing to do with the intent, which was to ensure that one state government didn’t favor or disfavor other states, like by forcing a tariff only on one particular state and not others, for example. It was intended to foster harmony and consistency in the interaction between all states, not to give the federal government license to meddle in anything it could attach the label, “commerce” to, something that should be plain if any thought is applied.
Why They Still Allow Jury Trials
It is to gauge the gullibility and malleability of the sheeple, that they tolerate juries. As long as society is chock full of obeyers, jury trials are a convenient and expedient stage show. They may just dispense with them if the people get too smart. But they don’t even play by their own rules. In some cases they deny people in their right to trial by jury, overrule the jury, or try to jail the jury for giving the “wrong” verdict.
Misunderstandings
The Obeyers are statists that don’t understand that government and law exist to serve the people, which is a dangerous misunderstanding.
It’s partly an issue of fear, partly of self-righteousness and authoritarianism, partly an issue of our education/brainwashing/ideological subversion. Since it’s not a rational position, it can’t be changed by argument or appeals to logic and reason.
For sure, it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. It does partly explain why the human race cannot seem to rise above constant mayhem.
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