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What is this higher standard? You think hanging them up from yardarms would deter them? You want to ensure proper behavior; you have to take away the tools th

What is this higher standard? You think hanging them up from yardarms would deter them? You want to ensure proper behavior; you have to take away the tools that let them aggregate power in the first place; and prevent it from re-occurring. There is no "higher" standard. There is only one standard; functional, competent, accountable, just. If you don't have a legal system that can accomplish those. Then you need to scrap your legal system. Not "hold them to a higher standard", which often is just an escape clause for preferential treatment ("Chevron deference").

someguydave 8y ago
This is probably why Jefferson thought that periodic revolution would be needed to put down the barbarism of the previous generation
- paulgrant999 8y ago
  Wouldn't help with perpetual corporations owning most of the assets. Globalism was just an extension of capitalism, to escape to other jurisdictions. It is not an accident that the GINI coefficient, is so drastically out of whack in the US. The mortgage system, was meant to break the original land grants (which had to be honored under British-American common law). The corporation both a shield for the rich; and a sword against the middle-classes as it disenfranchises citizens from the bill of rights. Intellectual property is just a more extreme form of corporations. The notion that idea can be owned for decades, with the cost of enforcement out-sourced to the public, and private profits insourced. Same with the public schooling system (ready workers). Etc. Just about every Western institution ("improvement") you'ld care to name, has an ulterior motive moving us one step further along to what amounts to perpetual slavery. I think if you sent back a person from this era, 120+ years ago, to try and "improve" the American system, they'ld have burned him alive. Such is the level of degradation inherent in todays "modern" governance.

someguydave 8y ago

This is probably why Jefferson thought that periodic revolution would be needed to put down the barbarism of the previous generation

paulgrant999 8y ago
Wouldn't help with perpetual corporations owning most of the assets. Globalism was just an extension of capitalism, to escape to other jurisdictions. It is not an accident that the GINI coefficient, is so drastically out of whack in the US. The mortgage system, was meant to break the original land grants (which had to be honored under British-American common law). The corporation both a shield for the rich; and a sword against the middle-classes as it disenfranchises citizens from the bill of rights. Intellectual property is just a more extreme form of corporations. The notion that idea can be owned for decades, with the cost of enforcement out-sourced to the public, and private profits insourced. Same with the public schooling system (ready workers). Etc. Just about every Western institution ("improvement") you'ld care to name, has an ulterior motive moving us one step further along to what amounts to perpetual slavery. I think if you sent back a person from this era, 120+ years ago, to try and "improve" the American system, they'ld have burned him alive. Such is the level of degradation inherent in todays "modern" governance.