"How Can You Have Any Pudding If You Don't Eat Your Meat?"
Simon Black writes at Lew Rockwell of a performance by Roger Waters of "Another Brick in the Wall" at the LA Colisseum -- and of a remark he made that I wholeheartedly agree with:
"If we stand at the top of the slope and give our governments, and particularly our police, too much power, it's a very long and dangerous slippery slope to the bottom," Waters said.
I try to avoid, yet do not always succeed "the slippery slope analogy". I try to be less chicken little and maybe a happy medium of maybe just maybe the sky if falling but is likely not.
The problem I see with giving laws/power or the application of it. Sometimes it is abused intentionally but usually it is unintentional. A law may sound great in application but people and mainly law makers ignore the unintended consequences of applying and creating. Or laws get circumvented or morphed or used in strange ways.
Take eminent domain. One the whole it sounds like a justifiable law and sort of reasonable. Sometimes a government may need to seize some land or property to do something. Still people are to be recompensed. That road or railroad is being delayed because of one land. Take it. But like any ideal or law it mutated. From good reason sorry a war is going on we need this area for a base to this road is going up and we could go another way but do not want to a business has promised us a better deal so we are going to take it. Shameful...
I could go on....
Still the best grit to add to the the slippery slope is to tell people to reconsider "maybe another law is needed" or "government is the one to do it."
I hope I am making sense.
John Paulson at May 25, 2012 5:20 AM
Jon,
You are making sense.
What needs to happen is that the citizens need to become citizens and require the federal government to adhere to the 18 enumerated powers and limit the General Welfare and Commerce clauses to the original intent.
Jim P. at May 25, 2012 8:09 PM
Waters is pretty much a die-hard leftist. That's part of why he wound up out of Pink Floyd; he didn't think the other guys were political enough.
Cousin Dave at May 25, 2012 9:20 PM
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