(11-13-2013 04:44 PM)miko33 Wrote: (11-08-2013 09:48 PM)Gamecock Wrote: Gawd the ACC sucks.
They got a better replacement than what they had, yet the powers that be are so anal retentive and bent on enforcing a rule
We are a nation built upon laws. When it comes to the point where we can arbitrarily determine what laws/rules we follow and which ones are OK to break, then anarchy ensues.
Take a good long look around on this one Miko. Antitrust laws, bankruptcy laws, laws against spying on citizens, laws protecting freedom of speech, laws protecting against unlawful search and seizure, laws and regulations against the unlawful tax upon an already levied item, laws intended to to prevent predatory business practices, etc. I'd say we are already living in anarchy within a nation of laws selectively enforced. Sports are small potatoes compared to the daily selective enforcement, or lack thereof, of laws long on the books. Shoot, we are paying for whole regulatory agencies which are either selectively enforcing their laws, or totally ignoring them. The FDA, the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, the USDA, the ATF are all governmental organizations in which some such happens with great frequency.
The USDA failed to inspect hay crops sent into Texas and Florida during drought and the result is a foraging ant that is rampaging through 4 states now. Immigration laws are strictly enforced in some places and selectively ignored in others, the FDA withholds some drugs from those willing to waive liability, and passes others which have not sufficiently been tested because they are lobbied to do so. The ATF is given full permission to exercise their authority against some criminal groups and have trouble going after others.
So what the ACC does or doesn't get permission to do to Maryland is but a spec in the ocean of the anarchy that is law. And on a minor note of levity the next time you pay sales taxes on the full commercial price of an already stamped carton of tobacco products, or on your beer, or liquor and when you pay both property tax and state and federal income tax, then think about the constitutionality of double taxation (not as is practiced but as was constitutionally prohibited) and then reconsider the depth at which selective enforcement exists in our present society.
You and I my friend are Gulliver in Lilliput. We are already guilty of pulling at the threads of regulations we didn't even know existed. And that too is prohibited constitutionally. Everyone needs to think about that each time the Supreme Court sees as its duties to need modify by interpretation the original social contract with "We the people" rather than to vouchsafe its efficacy.
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