Each congressional session (national and state), each county board meeting, each school board, every session of every governing body wants to create a few laws - each member wants those laws to have their name.
Bill S902 by Senator Such and Such or H1000 by Rep So and So.
Pay attention, because here is where the deep thinking starts.
This has to be a self defeating proposition. If every session creates a couple of laws - and we all know that rarely are laws repealed (look at the US Code for instance), how long will it be before our elected officials completely legislate away our every freedom?
When the only freedoms remain are the 9 (yes nine, because they've all but compromised the 2nd) gaurantteed in the Bill of Rights - how long do you really think it will take before they start on those?
The recent anti-terrorism push is just the start, your drivers license is already a national ID - when was the last time you used a check in your home town, let alone out of state and they didn't ask for your papers ... I mean drivers license.
Just wait, we will all be presenting our license to cross state lines, our movements will be tracked in a national database to ensure Big Brother knew whick 1M of it's citizens were in XYZ town, which 100K were in the 123 suburb, which 10 were in the building when ABC crime was committed.
The continuous development of new legislation has become a self fulfilling prophecy - you can only write so many bills before you have nothing but people's freedoms left to legislate against.
If you've read a court case writeup recently you notice how often there are three and four laws overlapping on a certain issue?
I'm trying not to be paranoid - but this issue has really been bugging me. We have all these well connected folks who want to get into politics - to do what? If they end up part of the legislative branch, they want to make new laws - how many new laws do I really need?
Any opinions?
Ryan