longpath

Following the rules and jumping through the hoops set up by legislators is not using “loopholes”. Legislators & regulators use this kind of defamatory language in order to excuse their desire to expand the scope of their power. One could easily argue that the use of the “general welfare” & “interstate commerce” clause to skirt Amendment 10 is the real loophole, and that the vast majority of regulatory and intelligence agencies owe their entire existence to such loopholes, just as Marbury v Madison exploited a loophole of assuming the three co-equal branches of the central government in the US would be adversarial; but actual practice revealed that Congress would allow the Judiciary to seize a position as sole arbiter of constitutionality because of short term opposition to the President at the time, despite the fact that Marbury v Madison has, itself, no constitutional basis. The irony of regulators whose position in an organization that owes its existence to a loophole using the term loophole to disparage private business following the law & regulations sadly goes over the heads of too many.

urahara said:

I am starting to believe that in the most cases the government only makes the situation worse. This is one of those situations. With “twin monopolies” - LOL, they have even coined a new term just to make their absurd case which hurts free market.

The US House of Representatives has a lower level of individual representation of its alleged constituents than any other comparable body in any other industrialized democracy, whether direct or limited, and has been so since 1929. This is nothing more than asserting power in order to grow power. By definition, a twin anything is not a monopoly. This isn’t the first time politicians have fabricated terms in order to frighten the ignorant and justify their violation of the takings clause. It won’t be the last.

rcfa said:

And why are the pacemakers not properly shielded?

Induction stoves, metal detectors, phones, magnetic fasteners, etc. are increasingly widespread. To construct pacemakers as if patients were Amish is negligent in itself…

I was wondering this myself; but a patient with such a device explained a few posts above yours that magnets are used to switch the devices into an alternate mode during the implantation surgery because electrocautery is used, and those electric fields could screw up the devices.

On the one hand, I’m grateful to have ceased using Facebook products, and on the other, I have to wonder how far back in time this data cache covers. I’d love to to know how I can check if my data or that if my kin was compromised.

flydog said:

longpath said:

Sounds like extortion & racketeering to me.

That’s because you have no idea what those words mean. 

On the contrary, I am perfectly aware of the fact that government is, of its nature, a protection racket, and using the state to compel peaceful parties to specific actions is extortion.

 I encourage you to read Murray Rothbard’s Anatomy of the State.