People think that when they drive by a sign that says
“littering $1,000” that it was a law passed by some legislative body, city,
state, or Federal. And they are wrong.
Here's how laws get created. The city, state, or the Congress create
departments and gives them directives to regulate. That gives them the ability to write
regulations and restrictions that relate to their governing function. So, some bureaucrat determines the fines and
penalties for violating whatever the department monitors. The regulations have
the full backing of law enforcement.
With traffic, these bureaucrats set the fines for speeding, littering,
parking fine rates and etc. There is no overriding commission to rule on its
fairness or impropriety.
A while back, the BLM (Bureau of Land Management) after 100
years of doing nothing, decided to charge farmers for grazing their cattle on
government land. They added a new list of regulations and laws from a
previously created government directive.
This ended up with a standoff with guns drawn on both sides and the Feds
blinked. The BLM, had government backing
to enforce the new laws, but they decided not to enforce it at that time. They decided that when the violator to the
“illegal” tax died, they would seize the estate and get their pound of flesh
with interest.
President Donald Trump has gotten rid of a lot of government
regulations/directives. It is these
regulations that create situations like the one above. I am not sure if the regulations written to
limit grazing on government land has changed, but I hope that they have. Many, many directives restrict how land may
be used. Everyone is familiar with “environmental studies” that turn land useless
because of an endangered species.
The American public doesn’t really understand how our
government works. The legal system
understands how laws are generated. It’s not too hard for a lawyer to tear one
apart. In most cases, that costs money,
and usually the fine is a lot less than getting a lawyer. This is what keeps the system functional, you
don’t have the dollars or the time, to chase this in the courts. Until someone
does, it is law. The most damming
regulation was that for hotels with a pool, to have a lift for paraplegics to
use the pool. Where does the business
owner come up with the money to finance the purchase? The device costed about
$10,000. Why would you want someone in your pool with no control over bodily
functions?
When the government creates a department, that department
gets to create government regulations or “laws.” If a bureaucrat in charge, decides that every school
must have a unisex bathroom, it has the force of law, the school must
conform. The school can then appeal to
the courts for a ruling. It cost time and dollars to fight these
regulations. It may be a couple of years before a court ruling decides the
issue.
Both the Republicans and the Democrats have used Presidential
Directives. Also, the bureau heads of government departments often write new directives
to circumvent Congress when they don’t have the votes to make it law. This is
the real war going on for the Supreme Court.
Do we allow the President and the
Bureau heads to write the laws and have the Supreme court agree with the ruling
party, or do we have a Supreme court that holds everyone to the principles
written in our Constitution?
If a liberal court ruled that guns could not be owned by
citizens, then they would be confiscated.
The odd thing about this confiscation, is that the people this would be
enforced upon, would be home owners. These
people can be fined and if they don’t pay, their home is confiscated. If you are homeless, a felon, or a renter,
there isn’t much that can be done to you, so you get to keep your guns. So, if you get a liberal Supreme Court that
sides with the President, home owners become an extremely vulnerable group. Just imagine if some bureaucrat decides that
every home should have solar panels -- get out your wallet. The people that will enforce the new regulations
are already in place. They will just be doing their job, it’s not their fault.
Net effect, you will own the solar panels before it gets to the Supreme court.
Think about what the Democrats want to do to the Supreme
Court. Some bureaucrat may be making all
of your decisions for you in the future.
The neat thing about that, is if you become a failure, it’s not your
fault. The real question; is it the
bureaucrat or the Constitution that determines the final outcome? Nine justices
on the Supreme Court will decide the issue.
I don't normally talk politics, but President Trump is fighting for for what this country was founded on. Go out and vote. I'm not sure of who will win, but he embodies the spirit that has made this country great.
