A Nanny State Idiotracy: A Tale Of besides Many Laws And besides small Freedom

Authorized by John & Nisha Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our large alternate claims the appatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.”

– Simone Weil, French philosopher

We are caught in a Vicious cyclo of besides many Laws, besides many Cops, and besides small freedom.

It’s hard to say who we’re dealing with a kkleptocracy (a government rolled by things), a kakistocracy (a government run by unprincipled career politicians, corporations and things that panders to the worst vices in our nature and has small reputation for the rights of American citizens), or a Nanny State Idiocracy.

Whatever the label, this overbearing despotism is what happens erstwhile government representatives (these elected and assumed to work for us) adopt the authoritarian notation that the government knows best and so must control, regulated and dictate almost everything about the citizen’s public, private and professional lives.

The government’s bureaucratic attributes at muscle-flexing by way of Overregulation and overcriminalization have reached specified outrageous limits that national and state governments now require on punishment of a fine that individuals apply for publication before they can grow exotic orchids, host elaborate diner parties, gather friends in one’s home for Bible studies, give coffee to the homeless, let their kids manage a lemonade stand, keep chickens as pets, or brain someone’s hair, as ludicrous as may see.

As the Regulatory Transparency task exploits, “There are over 70 national regulators agents, hiring hundreds of thousands of people to compose and implement regulations. all year, they issue about 3,500 fresh rules, and the regulators code now is over 168,000 pages long.”

In his CrimeAday Twitter feed, Mike pursuit highlights any of the more arcade and inane laws that render us all culture of violating any law or other.

As pursuit notes, it’s against the law to effort to make an unreasonable sound while a horse is passing by in a national park; to leave Michigan with a turkey that was hunted with a drone; to refrill a liquor bottle with different liquor than it had in it erstwhile it was originally filled; to offer to buy swan feats so you can make a woman’s hat with them; to enter a plan in the national Duck Stamp competition if waterfowl are not the dominant feature of the design; to transport a Cougar without a coupar license; to sale spray without telling people to avoid spray it in their eyes; and to transport “meat loaf” little it’s in loaf form.

In specified a society, we are all petty criticals.

In fact, Boston lawyer Harvey Silvergate estimates that the average American now unknownly commits 3 people a day, thanks to an overabundance of vague laws that render otherwise others activity illegal and an inclusion on the part of promoters to reject the thought that there can’t be a crime without criminal intent.

The bigger the government grows, the bage the red tape becomes.

Almost all aspect of American life today, including the occupation sector, is now subject to this kind of heightened scrutiny and ham-fisted control.

Whereas 70 years ago, 1 out of all 20 U.S. jobs required a state license, today, almost 1 in 4 American occupations requirements a license.

According to business analyst Kaylyn McKenna, more than 41 states require that makeup artists be licensed. Twenty-eight states require a licence before you can work as a residential painter. ceremony attendants, whos dues include placing caskets in visitation rooms, Arranging flowers and directing motels, should be licensed to so in Kansas, Maine and Massachusetts.

The problem of overregulation has become so bad that, as 1 analyst notes, “getting a licence to kind hair in Washington takes more instructional time than becoming an emergency medical technician or a firefighter.”

This is what happens erstwhile bureaucrats run the show, and the regulation of law becomes small more than a cattle prod for proding the citizenry to march in lockstep with the government.

Overregulation is just the another side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in which everything is rendered illegal, and everyone becomes a lawbreaker.

As policy analyst Michael Van Beek wars, the problem with overcriminalization is that there are so manylaws at the federal, state and local levels—that we can't possibly know them all.

“It’s besides impossible to force all these Laws. Instead, law enforcement officials must choose which ones are crucial and which are not. The consequence is that they choice the Laws Americans truly must follow, due to the fact that they’re the ones deciding whichlaws truly mater,” Concludes Van Beek. “Federal, state and local regulations — rules created by unified government bureaucrats — carry the same force of law and can turn you into a criminal if you Violate any of them... if we Violate these rules, we could be proven as criticals. No substance how antiquated or ridiculous, they inactive carry the full force of the law. Byletting so many of these sit around, just waiting to be utilized again us, we increase the power of law force, which has lots of options to charge people with legal and regulatory vibrations.”

Case in point: in fresh Jersey, in whatjournalist Billy Binion describes as “yet another example of the effects of overcriminalization, which increases interactions between civilians and police with a small benefit to actual public safety,” police Went so far as to arrest a teenager and seize another teen’s bicycles for alleged traffic vibrations and a failure to registry their bikes with the state.

This is the police state’s superpower: it has been vetted with the authority to make our lives a bureaucratic hell.

That exploits how a fisherman can be planted with 20 years’ jail time for Throwing fish that were besides tiny back into the water. Or why police resched a 90-year-old man for violating an order that ensures the homeless in public unless portable toilets are besides made available. Or how states across the country, in a misguided effort to disperse homeless populations, have criminalized sitting, sleeping, or reset in public spaces; sharing food with people; and camping in public.

The Laws can get downright silly.

For instance, in Florida, it’s against the law to eat a frog that was utilized in a frog-jumping contest. You could besides find yourself pass time in a Florida slammer for specified inane activities as single in a public place while wearing a swimsuit, breaking more than 3 dishes per day, fortunate in a public place after 6 p.m. on a Thursday, and skateboarding without a license.

“Such laws,” notes writer George Will, “whose enable government zealots to access almost any of the commitable 3 times in a day, do not just enable government misconduct, they incite prosecutors to intimdate decent people who never had culpable intentions. And to inflict punishments without crime.”

Unfortunately, the consequences are all besides serious for these who lives become grist for the police state’s mill.

In this way, America has gone from being a beacon of freedom to a locked down nation.

We labour present under the weight of region tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the alleged name of the national good by an elite class of government and corporate officials who are mostly inspired from the sick effects of their actions.

We increasely find ourselves loaded, bullied and browbeaten into gaining the brunt of their arrogance, paying the price for their grey, offering the backlash for their militarism, agonizing as a consequence of their inaction, bearing ignorance about their backroom dealings, overlooking their incompetence, turning a blind eye to their missed, coversing from their heavy-handed tactics, and blindly hoping for change that never comes.

The above signs of the despotism exercised by the creatively authenticated government that passes itself off as the United States government (and its corporate partners in crime) are all around us: pricership, criminalizing, shadow banning and de-platform of individuals who express ideas that are politically incorrect or unpopular; warrantless surveillance of Americans’ mobilitys and communications; SWAT squad raids of Americans’ homes; shootings of spent citizens by police; harvest funds met to schoolchilling on the name of zero tolerances; community-wide bonds of Americans and hedges that most Americans of their money money, money money, money money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money, money

Yet as egregious as these incursions on our rights may be, it’s the endless, petty tyrannies—the heavy-handed, punitive-laden dictates inflicted by a self-righted, Big-Brother-Knows-Best bureaucracy on an overtaxed, overregulated, and underrepresented populace—that illustrate so clearly the degree to which “we the people” are viewed as crucial of common sense, moral judgment, fairness, and intelligence, not to comment hunting a basic knowing of how to stay alive, race a family, or be part of a functioning communication.

In exchange for the promise of an end to global pandemics, lower taxes, lower crime rates, safe streets, safe schools, blight-free neighborhoods, and readily accessible technology, wellness care, water, food and power, we’ve opened the door to lockdowns, militarized police, governance surveillance, asset forfeiture, school zero tolerance policies, licence plate readers, red light cameras, SWAT squad raids, wellness care mandates, overcriminalization, overregulation and government correspondence.

We relied on the government to aid us safely navigate national events (terrorism, natural disasters, global pandemics, etc.) only to find ourselfves forced to relinquish our freedoms on the altar of national security, yet we’re no safer (or healthier) than before.

We asked our lawmakers to be tough on crime, and we’ve been sadled with an abundance of laws that criminalize all aspect of our lives.

We wanted criminals taken off the streets, and we didn’t want to gotta pay for their inspection. What we’ve got gotten is simply a nation that bears the highest inspection rate in the world, with many doing time for a comparative minor, nonviolent crimes, and a private prison manufacture fueling the drive for more inmates.

We wanted law enforcement agents to have the essential resources to fight the nation’s wars on terror, crime and drugs. What we got alternatively were militarized police decked out with M-16 drifts, grenade launchers, strongers, conflict tanks and hollow point buildings—gear designed for the battlefield, more than 80,000 SWAT teams raced out all year (many for way police tasks, results in losses of life and property), and profit-driven schemes that add to the governance’s largeschech as as asset forfeiture, where police period property from “suspected criteria.”

We make for the government’s promotion of safers roads, only to find ourselves caught in a tagle of profit-driven red light cameras, which ticket unsupposing drivers in the alleged name of road safety while ostensibly fatalizing the coffers of local and state government.

This is what happens erstwhile the American people get assed, deceived, double-crossed, chated, led to, swiddled and connected into believing that the government and its armies of bureaucrats—the people au apppointed to safeguard our freedoms—actually have our best interests at heart.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, the problem with these devil’s bargains is that there is always a catch, always a price to pay for whatever it is we value so advanced as to barter distant our most precious positions.

In the end, specified bargains always turn sour.