Comments on: How do you get rid of a law?

By: Donna Bellamy

Donna Bellamy — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 16:06:59 +0000

How to save pitbull’s from the bad reputation’s that they have , I had the best dog and had to get rid of him because of his breed and believe that the dogs should be redeemed they are really good dogs help save pitbull’s please

By: Bob Allen

Bob Allen — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:26:39 +0000

That’s a rather keen observation, brucegee1962.

In a similar light, and something that happened a great deal during the Truman Administration, would be that of proposing a number of rather draconian methods of enforcing a law within administrative circles – and then having these draconian methods leak into the Public through the Press – in such a way that the outrage over the various draconian methods would prevent the law from being enforced. This method was used frequently during the early years of America’s Architecture of the Cold War !!!!

By: brucegee1962

brucegee1962 — Thu, 10 May 2012 04:13:05 +0000

Seriously, isn’t another way to nullify a law to do so by budget? You say “Agency X is in charge of enforcing said law,” and then you give Agency X such a pitiful amount of funding that there’s no way they can do their job properly — this has been done with meat inspections recently, I believe. Or you tell the agency that they need to do A, B, and C, but you only give them enough funding to do one of the three things — NASA comes to mind here.

Certainly Ron Paul seems to think that, if he becomes president and gets rid of the EPA and the Departments of Commerce and Education and so forth, he will be de facto abolishing a whole lot of legislation because there won’t be anyone around left to enforce it.

I heard somewhere that a lot of the big reforms that Theodore Roosevelt got credit for weren’t actually new legislation — they were laws already on the books that hadn’t been enforced much under McKinley.

My understanding is that people think Obama should ease up on marijuana and pornography prosecutions, not by getting rid of these laws, but rather by appointing FBI and other law-enforcement people who will come up with budgets that will deprioritize these sub-agencies and prioritize other areas of law enforcement.

By: F

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:12:07 +0000

I thought another way to get rid of a law was to “blow it up” on one of those morning radio shows.

By: Bob Allen

Bob Allen — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:11:21 +0000

Another way to get rid of a law – not mentioned by Greg – is through revolution !!!!

For example – when the 13 American thingies revolted against the revolting English laws of that time – they, through revolution, removed ALL of the revolting English laws – and established different, though in may cases, similar laws.

Power to the People !!!!