Mind boggling...there are so many Federal laws they say it is impossible to tally In an example of a failed attempt to tally up the number of laws on a specific subject area, in 1982 the Justice Department tried to determine the total number of criminal laws. In a project that lasted two years, the Department compiled a list of approximately 3,000 criminal offenses. This effort, headed by Ronald Gainer, a Justice Department official, is considered the most exhaustive attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws. In a Wall Street Journal article about this project, “this effort came as part of a long and ultimately failed campaign to persuade Congress to revise the criminal code, which by the 1980s was scattered among 50 titles and 23,000 pages of federal law.” Or as Mr. Gainer characterized this fruitless project: “[y]ou will have died and [been] resurrected three times,” and still not have an answer to this question. This quote pertains only to criminal offenses, which are just a drop in the bucket of all written law. And...there are also so many individual State laws I can not get an exact or even estimated number for each State. Add to this County Codes and Municipal codes...we start asking ourselves why we still call ourselves a free nation. Maybe, because to some of us...our Freedom is not expressed by mans laws, which are usually nothing more than reactions to fear and efforts of control, but by our rights which laws should never touch. This is why they called the amendments to the original Constitution The Bill of Rights not the Bill of Laws. The Constitution was the Law of the Land designed to protect these rights, rights no law was ever to be able to take away from. These basic rights are what gave us the promise and ideal of being Free, even when buried beneath mountains of written laws. I just wonder when we will decide to throw away the horrendous piles of laws and go back to the simplicity of that intended system. All the interpretations did nothing more than open up loopholes to abuse the rights of one in order to guarantee the rights of another. Each year more laws are added yet it is debatable if we have become a better society or a more degraded society. The truth is, man will be what man is with or without laws. Those who prey will always prey, those who do good will always do good. Laws have not changed this. So why do we continue to make laws? I do not think the members of our Government were supposed to be lawmakers so much as Rights protectors.
Posted on: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 01:21:48 +0000
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