Today Mark Levin called our government “Lawless”. Now, he didn’t mean that in a manner that reflects anarchism, where all transactions are voluntary, but he meant it in a more brutal tribal leader kind of a way. What this means is that while there are written laws for our governmental leaders to follow, they selectively enforce them as they see fit.
This is how the Federal government has operated for several decades now. There are over 10,000 Federal laws on the books that are currently active. I doubt our Federal government ever really enforces more than 50% of them as each and every Presidential administration has played favorites and selectively enforced certain laws while neglecting others.
For example, the Arizona Illegal Immigration Law that was recently overturned was merely a reflection of Federal law. Yet all the past administrations, at least the ones I can remember (not many really) have never seriously enforced these laws, except in some select areas. In fact, we’ve seen Federal prosecutors maliciously prosecute border agents who allegedly shot a drug runner.
The problem is not always because the Federal government is ruled by thugs and soft-dictators who desire to enforce some things for their own benefit. The truth is that while the Federal government is big, the laws it is tasked to enforce are much bigger. There simply aren’t enough resources to enforce all the laws seriously and so each and every governmental head will selectively enforce the laws they deem worthy to be enforced.
In other words, the bigger the government gets, the more laws that are passed, the more lawless a government will become, no matter who is charge. The President can send military troops abroad without a declaration of war or letter of marquee issued by Congress. And while this is unconstitutional, it is clear that there is nothing anyone can do to stop it, so long as the troops are dumb enough to obey unconstitutional orders.
If you haven’t done so, read Catch-22. Joseph Heller paints a very bleak picture of bureaucracy in action, where government force is applied by false precedents and contradictory policies. In other words, there is so much confusion when it comes to government, that ultimately the government can do as it pleases.
It would seem that the tyrannical kings and monarch of old would envy our modern leaders for their ability to maintain power with as little use of force as necessary.