So congress passes a law authorizing a Dept of the Interior and gives it authority it needs to manage parks, and forests and other federal lands where we might have mines, oil wells, etc FOR THE BENEFIT of the taxpayers.
We need that, and that is good govt.
What is NOT good govt is Congress then authorizing this created entity to extend itself and the executive by writing their own regulations for their own reasons which might have seemed like a good idea at the time, and which they then as the executive HAVE to enforce (in their own minds, and more on that in a sec). The EPA is another such example of this Frankenstein at work. Good idea, now a monstrous mutation in too many instances, and with self extending authority.
We see this at work as govt and its POLITICAL CLASS who serve in it fulfill the quite human quality of ambition, and desire to ‘succeed’, and bow to authority which becomes an end itself.
It is THAT human nature which the founders wrote the Constitution and the first 10 Amendment to constrain. Human NATURE. Not evil.
Congress has failed in allowing this.
We also see that when it comes to illegal aliens in the USA, and other laws which fit the ideology (of the moment..these things change) the executive is picky about what to enforce.
But this is not the case in Nevada.
I wish Mr. Bundy had paid the land fees and ALSO challenged the ridiculous tortoise issues, but this has grown far beyond all that now.
By flouting one law and enforcing another the executive seeks to enhance those who vote for them, and REPRESS those who oppose them. By executive I include the entire political class. That is why we see no politicians out there FLOUTING THIS FREE SPEECH ZONE.
It is as plain as can be.
We should have been objecting the instant this ZONE thing came about in the 2004 conventions.
That was a LARGE mistake. This is the free speech zone at the democratic convention in 2004.
We are becoming totally polarized as a nation and the political class want to overcome this by enforcing its authority.
Polarized. Beyond discussion. The Gracchi, Marius, and then Sulla.
This should be ended now by withdrawal of the BLM and DHS. TODAY. Then go to court. Then comes the ballot box (which is coming anyway).
I hear from the left all the time that when we get one Taliban somewhere with a drone it makes 100 others.
What do these people think is going on right now? In spades? Among American citizens?
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