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"We don’t suffer from too much governance, we suffer from too little". It's funny that someone who was an illegal immigrant would support more governance when
by a3camero 15y ago
"We don’t suffer from too much governance, we suffer from too little".
It's funny that someone who was an illegal immigrant would support more governance when that's exactly the sort of thing that would have kicked him out of the country and led to him not having much interest in how the US is governed!
Perhaps he means "his sort of governance" is what's needed because I'm fairly sure he wouldn't like the consequences of ramping up regulation of everything. See all the SOPA posts for details.
- brendn 15y agoWhy does "more governance" necessarily mean deportation? I fail to see the connection. Can't "more governance" mean better bureaucracy for documenting immigrants?
- a3camero 15y agoIf they had been enforcing the law more vigorously he probably wouldn't have had a chance to be an illegal immigrant. He'd have been deported.
- mc32 15y agoMaybe he was willing to allow some self-sacrifice? So instead of state agents being outed, or secrets being revealed as Assange would sacrifice for his beliefs, Gupta would allow some self sacrifice for his beliefs. For me the main take-away was the need for a more refined OWS mission. One focused on solutions rather than one focused on venting frustration and fomenting division.
- Symmetry 15y agoOn the other hand, you need an effective government to have rule of law. If your bureaucrats are too few in numbers to enforce the law, pretty soon you have people giving them arbitrary powers in the hope that that'll let them keep up with their work. The England of 1900 had an order of magnitude more bureaucrats per capita than Tsarist Russia, but I would certainly have preferred to live in England.