Just Another Case of Law Shirking By Desperate Politicians

LvMIC:

As the Republican presidential candidate primary elections heat up, it looks like another case of “the law is flexible for me and not you” has made an appearance.  From CBS News:

FORT DODGE, Iowa – Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other Republican presidential candidates who failed to get onto the Virginia primary ballot may have a glimmer of hope thanks to the intervention of Virginia’s top lawyer.
Fox News reported Saturday that the state’s attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, is planning to file emergency legislation to change the Virginia law that has kept most of the GOP candidates off the primary ballot. Only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Ron Paul met the requirement of 10,000 signatures to participate in the March 6 primary.
The shutout of other candidates threatens to make Virginia irrelevant in the primary process. The lack of organizing activity also could handicap the eventual Republican nominee next fall in a swing state that both parties consider must-win.

While former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney and Texas Congressman Ron Paul played by the rules to get on the VA ballot, the rest of the candidates look to get a boost from a fellow bureaucrat in arms.  Of course the dirty deed hasn’t been committed yet but the fact that it’s even being contemplated speaks volumes on the type of good ole’ boys networking and power manipulation that defines public office seeking.
Immediate law perversion to benefit political friends is an innate consequence of system vested with much authority and power.  As Thomas Jefferson famously declared, “the natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”  Hit some financial trouble?  Earmark a few subsidies for some “campaign donations.”  Your kid catches a driving under the influence charge?  That can be dismissed.  Need some insider stock tips?  Just pass legislation to make yourself immune to what constitutes a crime for any private individual.  Can’t get on the ballot for a primary election?  Have an attorney general of the same political party push through “emergency legislation to make it so.

These types of legal shenanigans show the true nature of the state.  It is a playground of centralized planning filled with fallible men convinced they are above those who they lustfully impose rules upon.  The laws, numbered in the thousands, that flow from the mighty, power craving beast every year apply only to those who don’t write or enforce them.   Those who bow to the divinity of such an institution have the wool wound too tight around their eyes to realize they are duped on a constant basis.  They truly believe their consent alone is what enables the state to exist while seeking a spot at the trough of squandered funds.

Instances such as the emergency VA ballot intervention, though insignificant in the grand scheme of things by themselves, are simple additions to a long train of abuses that only accelerate as private life and civil society become indistinguishable from governmental regulation.  As long as the childish fascination in the non-contest between the elephant and jackass continues, progress down the road to serfdom won’t be halted and reversed toward liberty.  Tearing through the mirage of “good natured” legitimacy of the state is the only means to win the ultimate battle of ideas.