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There are a couple, in particular I imagine violence won't be much help when the law has one of its psychotic episodes and refuses to reflect reality in a sensi
by contravariant 5y ago
There are a couple, in particular I imagine violence won't be much help when the law has one of its psychotic episodes and refuses to reflect reality in a sensible way.
So stuff like people being declared dead incorrectly, identity fraud. I'm also reminded of an incident in the Netherlands that lead to the fall of the current (still acting; it's complicated) government, where the tax agency was somehow convinced people had fraudulently received particular subsidies and decide to get the money back plus interest, which it turns out tax agencies are very good at.
Good luck finding anyone to beat up there. You can scare people but you can't intimidate red tape.
- rblatz 5y agoIf your violence isn’t working it means you just aren’t using enough of it.
- contravariant 5y agoWell I suppose one way or another the problem stops existing or stops being worth solving.
- belter 5y agoThe detail you forgot to mention there was the criteria the tax administration used to decide the "people" they fought were fraudulent. And the detail of the documents they destroyed when parliamentarians tried to investigate the issue. There is the law and there is above the law.
- contravariant 5y agoThere's a lot of details I neglected to mention, simply because it's impossible to succinctly explain on just how many levels things went wrong.
- alasdair_ 5y ago> You can scare people but you can't intimidate red tape. The history of Scientology versus the IRS suggests otherwise.