Oh, Jerry, you're such a lawyer. Always looking at all the angles. Is that appropriate in this forum?:)
These changes may be for the better, and we may like them. But to say that the case against Bill Gates is just about enforcing the antitrust laws in the same way that pulling over an errant motorist is about enforcing the speed limit, the way Orrin Hatch implies every time he gets up on his high horse, is to ignore what is really going on.
I don't know, I think it's very much like enforcing the speed limit. That one's all pretty arbitrary too. Aside from the variable enforcement, if you're the wrong color driving in the wrong part of the south (or any other region of the country), you might get pulled over, searched because you fit the "profile" for drug dealers, and if you happen to be carrying a lot of cash, for whatever reason, it'll get confiscated and it's up to you to prove it's really yours. If you're lucky, you might get half back a year or two later. Word is, almost all $100 bills in circulation have cocaine residue on them. And, of course, if you assert your constitutional rights about being searched, well, that's just more evidence you're a drug dealer.
On the other hand, you drive 120 miles an hour, for any extended period of time, where there are people around, you'll probably get in trouble for speeding, regardless.
Cheers, Dan, resident Shirley Temple idealist, playacting as cynical about the government as the next guy. |
