Tamara,
I know, I know. That's why I hesitated to post as I did.
However ... I keep thinking about this one. If the law actually forbids public drunkenness, and defines 'public' to include the bars, and defines 'drunken' as .08 -- seems to me that the law is bad and ought to be changed.
Certainly there's enough public outcry now to give some impetus toward changing it. At least, I hope so.
But to say to our police, the same organizations that we expect to obey every last jot and tittle of the law at roadblocks in Arizona, to please completely ignore the law as it is written in Virginia, is perhaps not so good.
I don't want everything illegal unless some bureaucrat (or good ol' boy sheriff) decides to let it slide today ... do you?
Better to trash the law, if it's a bad one, I would think. "A government of laws and not of men" and all that, you know.
Zundfolge, I was also thinking of Ayn Rand's quote. If we make everything illegal, and then enforce it randomly, we'll get there. I think we should repeal the laws which people are going to ignore, rather than letting them clutter up the books so that everyone is a lawbreaker and the bureaucrats can ding you for anything, at any time.
pax
If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. – Winston Churchill
I know, I know. That's why I hesitated to post as I did.
However ... I keep thinking about this one. If the law actually forbids public drunkenness, and defines 'public' to include the bars, and defines 'drunken' as .08 -- seems to me that the law is bad and ought to be changed.
Certainly there's enough public outcry now to give some impetus toward changing it. At least, I hope so.
But to say to our police, the same organizations that we expect to obey every last jot and tittle of the law at roadblocks in Arizona, to please completely ignore the law as it is written in Virginia, is perhaps not so good.
I don't want everything illegal unless some bureaucrat (or good ol' boy sheriff) decides to let it slide today ... do you?
Better to trash the law, if it's a bad one, I would think. "A government of laws and not of men" and all that, you know.
Zundfolge, I was also thinking of Ayn Rand's quote. If we make everything illegal, and then enforce it randomly, we'll get there. I think we should repeal the laws which people are going to ignore, rather than letting them clutter up the books so that everyone is a lawbreaker and the bureaucrats can ding you for anything, at any time.
pax
If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. – Winston Churchill