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The Flood of Government Code Violations, A Regulation Nightmare newswithviews.com/the-flood-of-g…

“Heaven is purpose, principle, and people. Purgatory is paper and procedure. Hell is rules and regulations.” —Dee Hock, founder and CEO of VISA Credit Card

“As government regulations grow slowly, we become used to the harness. Habit is a powerful force, and we no longer feel as intensely as we once would did about the constriction of our liberties. ....

....Those same constrictions would have been utterly intolerable a mere half century ago.” —Judge Robert Bork

We are a country under the rule of law all right, but we have taken law and rule making to the extreme edge of absurdity, if not insanity.

The Federal Register represents 82 volumes and 61,949 pages, as of 2017, or so we are told. The United States Code is perched on multiple shelves in 51 volumes and supposedly contains 16,845 pages.

It changes by the day as lawmakers add more laws. This doesn’t include the Code of Federal Regulations, or CFR’s. Title 26 of the IRS Tax Code allegedly consists of 73,954 pages as of 2016. But some say it is really only a little over 4,000 pages. We have no idea who is right.

This doesn’t even begin to cover the millions of pages of state and local laws, regulations, restrictions and ordinances, or the number of laws we add to the mix each year.

What is even worse, most of these laws, regulations and ordinances are patently unconstitutional but they are never legally challenged.

If you live in a gated subdivision, or a controlled community, you are governed by hundreds of rules and regulations under what are called Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions (CC’s and R’s). However, living in a gated or controlled community is a choice.

Being forced to abide by the millions of local, state, or federal laws is not, unless of course you are an illegal alien. They literally get away with murder and other crimes.

We have been done in by the unconscionable perversion of the very thing that was supposed to set us free ….. a Constitutional Republic, where the rights of the minority are protected from the majority (mob rule), under the “RULE OF LAW”.

But under the rule of law, America has gone virtually berserk. It doesn’t always take chains to enslave a person. Invisible chains lurk in the shadows of too many laws.

What all these laws have led to is a government filled with tens of thousands of code enforcement officers, (land use, public health, social services, animal control, etc.) searching the hinterlands for those who have fallen afoul of too many laws. Welcome to the Police State

The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has estimated that the cost for business to comply with all the rules and regulations is a staggering $46,000,000,000 (billion) per year. This doesn’t include the cost of paying all those code enforcement officers. ($2-4,000,000,000 +)

Thousands of environmental laws and bureaucratic rules are passed every year since the environmental movement smelled money in being “green”, back around the late 1960’s.

All these mostly unconstitutional environmental laws have been used by environmentalists for their radical agendas, aided and abetted by the US Government, to bring down the hammer on anyone who should have the misfortune of owning private land or violating some other stupid law.

Endangered species, wetlands, mandatory conservation easements, the Clean Water Act and “waters of the United States” have only served to gut what were constitutional property rights.

So we the stupid ones, have allowed the special interests and the government to operate unchecked and government did whatever they damn well pleased. We, the stupid ones are now paying the price for our apathy, disinterest and in-attention.

We the stupid ones are paying the price of the loss of our freedom because we stupidly trusted government and special interests to do the right thing and adhere to the principles of our Constitution.

Predictably, they did not, because their goals were power, money and control, not liberty and individual freedom.

Some government land use jurisdictions are teaching property owners how to determine if their neighbor is violating a land use or environmental regulation and then “tattle” to the government with an anonymous complaint.

Government is essentially using a neighbor to “rat” on their neighbor to locate more code violations. After all, they have to rationalize their time and pay for their salaries, don’t they?

People have a choice, either succumb to government abuse, harassment and over regulation, or stand up like strong, free Americans and challenge government’s power and legal authority where appropriate, as we were meant to do from the day our U. S. Constitution was signed

Sadly, we have been letting government (the bully) get away with their abuse and harassment for far too long and too many Americans have lost their will to fight.

If we don’t get that “will to fight” back, America is doomed as a free nation. “We Either Take On The Bully, Or We Will Be His Slave.”

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