Frank Borelli
Editor In Chief
New American Truth
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In my last blog entry I talked about how I believe we need to stop extending minority preference to people based on the most insignificant amount of minority heritage they carry. I documented how this practice actually grew out of the racial laws from the 1890s and in the early 20th century. With this blog I’m addressing another practice I believe we need to stop: that of making laws so complicated that it takes nine legal scholars to figure out whether or not the law is consitutional and even they don’t agree.
We Need To Stop tolerating elected representatives who create and enact laws so complex that WE THE PEOPLE can’t understand them.
A long time ago a guy named Moses brought down off a mountain the Ten Commandments. Those Ten Commandments have served as lawful guidance for centuries. The strength of them was that they were more MORAL guidance than LAWFUL guidance. They are a set of rules that each person can take and mold (to some extent) to their own outlooks on life.
In our modern era the legislators, lawyers, courts and judges have attempted to legislate right and wrong. That can’t be done. No set of circumstances is identical to any other so not every incident can be fit into a carefully crafted intricately detailed “box”. Of course, that leaves lawyers room to wiggle and argue thereby insuring their livelihood and income for decades to come. Oddly enough, I think they’d have MORE job security with LESS laws.
The example I’ll give before I end this rant is the current version of “Healthcare Reform” making its way through Congress. It is 1,900+ pages long and, in fact, PROHIBITS states from enacting any kind of legal fees lawyers can receive in medical malpractice lawsuits. Is this how the law is supposed to work? Our elected representatives make laws that prohibit states from making laws that limit ridiculous fees for lawyers?
I think not. In making laws too complex our government creates a situation where the average citizen is incapable of defending himself against accusations. Which leads me to this belief:
No law should be enacted that can’t be easily explained to, and understood by, the AVERAGE citizen – which means (to me) any 8th grader.
If the law is so complicated it takes a team of nine legal scholars to figure it out and THEY can’t even agree, WE have issues.
What do you think?
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it is unbelievable how complicated our elected officials can make things. I agree that the average citizen should be able to understand every law that is written, without having to get lawyers involved. As a police officer I shouldn’t have to contact the DA’s office to understand even some of the very basic criminal and traffic laws. Seeing how a large portion of our elected officials are lawyers, and it is them writting these laws, i sense a conspiracy to help make money for fellow lawyers.
WE need to stop complicated laws! WE do that by firing the assholes who created or help create those laws. And reward those who simplify or delete those laws. GET OUT AND VOTE. (WE) make the difference, get all the lawyers out of there. Put people in place that understand us, and what WE want, not what benefits them.
I think that you are absolutely right. I do not live in the States, but situation is similar everywhere. Take, for example, traffic rules in Switzerland. Why are they so complicated? How is it supposed that an average citizen remember that extraordinary complex variety of situations? And I am not talking about passing the test, but of a worse situation, applying all these rules when driving. When driving is it supposed that you remember all that stupid rules about priorities and lane pre-selection?