Bag's Rants

An example of following the rules and not the intent.

Reading this article about rules being designed to make people do what you can't legally stipulate.

Basically, the schools are making local rules which discriminate against poorer people. Thus bypassing the law which disallows discrimination against class.

This sort of thing is not new. People, being people, want to control their environments in many ways and exclude people they feel are undesirables. Government, being Government, have to legislate to stop this even when the people in Government break the rules themselves. Being PC, or just politicians, they don't seem to recognise the hypocrisy. Or perhaps they do but think it should not apply to them.

Putting aside this issue we just have to look at many 'rights' we have and see how they are eroded and abused by those with a little bit of power. Petty Hitlers we used to call them. The faceless buerocrat in local council who removes our capability of performing something we are legally entitled to do.

Examples are speedbumps. Law makes the roads 30mph. Speedbumps are put in which cause severe damage to your car if you do 30mph over them. You can't have your calls recorded but the NSA in the US do it for our Government and supply them the transcripts. You have the right to a trial and legal representation but not if you are accussed of serious charges such as terrorism. You have the right your hobby but not when it has any link to a weapon or impacts on someones feelings or environment no matter how slight. And, of course, you have the right to chose your own childs school as long as you can meet the arbitory entry criteria. I'm sure there are many more.

There can not be a single person in the UK who is not impacted by legislation or rules put in on top of legislation to reduce our rights over the last few years.

The rules should be enforced at no cost to individuals when petty dictatorships use their powers to pervert a right. That should include our biggest dictatorship. There are so many petty rules that we have little or no rights at all. And, yet we still put up with this. Citizen Smith used to say 'Come the Revolution'. We are still waiting but not for much longer I hope.

posted by Bag @ 1:35 pm