Does it make you uneasy and mad that the rules that are set down for us can be ignored by those that impose them upon us? Shades of Ian Underwood’s testimony:
The first is that a bill like this undermines respect for the very rule of law itself. After all, if the legislature isn’t going to respect the limits placed on it by the NH Constitution, then why should individuals respect the limits placed on them by that legislature — whether regarding guns, or schools, or traffic laws, or anything else?
Or in this case, the Bureaucracy? If it cannot obey its authorizing statutes, laws, and regulations, why do we need to follow them? Otherwise, we are left with “Government by Hypocrisy” – and millions did not sacrifice and die for that.
If we’re going to disregard the big rules, why pay any attention to the smaller ones? For that matter, if words like ‘all’ and ‘person’ no longer mean what they’ve meant for centuries, then why should we pretend that laws, which are made of words, mean anything at all? In other words, if you can behave as if ‘all’ doesn’t mean ‘all’, why can’t I behave as if ‘not’ doesn’t mean ‘not’?
If Government cannot obey, why should we? After all, Government exists for us – not the other way around.
(H/T: Instapundit)
