“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against - then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted - and you create a nation of law-breakers - and then you cash in on guilt. Now, that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
It's a bit simplistic. Guilt is the first part. Once you break the law, you can be hounded and then made an asset of. It also allows for arbitrary enforcement so that you can create political enforcement by having so many laws that it becomes impossible to enforce all of them, so you get to pick and choose.
Criminals are a dependent class towards prosecutors. This forms the basis for what becomes anarcho-tyranny.
Vaugeness is a critical component to authoritarianism through arbitrary enforcement. If you don't know what's illegal, you have no way of challenging the enforcer's ability to stop you.
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
Because it's a completely arbitrary decision not based on law. The agency can just decide on a whim what it wants to regulate as a security. They previously said it wasn't but somehow "proof-of-stake" makes it different now.
Let’s be honest, the SEC has been a joke since Schumer led the charge to gut them in the early 2000s. They’re just window dressing for some semblance of “accountability”.
-—Atlas Shrugged
That’s exactly how I feel when filing my taxes…
We need more republican voters to use jury nullification to refuse to convict on these vague laws.
One of the many reasons why the left hates Ayn Rand.
It's a bit simplistic. Guilt is the first part. Once you break the law, you can be hounded and then made an asset of. It also allows for arbitrary enforcement so that you can create political enforcement by having so many laws that it becomes impossible to enforce all of them, so you get to pick and choose.
Criminals are a dependent class towards prosecutors. This forms the basis for what becomes anarcho-tyranny.
That's entirely the point. It's complicated and vague so you're always doing something wrong.
It should be void for vagueness.
Its the same thing with taxes. I can call 4 different tax experts and none of them can agree how much tax I have to pay.
So you’re constantly being made to feel like a criminal.
Meanwhile REAL criminals don’t give a fuck and sleep soundly during tax season.
Vaugeness is a critical component to authoritarianism through arbitrary enforcement. If you don't know what's illegal, you have no way of challenging the enforcer's ability to stop you.
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them."
Anacharsis
Gensler was Hillary Clinton's campaign CFO in 2016.
Fuck him.
I wish someone had walked up in the middle of this exchange and crossed out the word 'Honorable'
Because it's a completely arbitrary decision not based on law. The agency can just decide on a whim what it wants to regulate as a security. They previously said it wasn't but somehow "proof-of-stake" makes it different now.
Let’s be honest, the SEC has been a joke since Schumer led the charge to gut them in the early 2000s. They’re just window dressing for some semblance of “accountability”.
early life
Ah, Gensler. Don't remember where I read it but someone accurately described his look as "AIDS vampire".
He's got a genotype, alright, but it predates vampires.
oops - “How” not “Hoe”
Hoe works too.
You answered your own question right there