Mangled Thoughts

Posted by D
In yesterday’s Herald Sun Paul Gray also had a spray about the oh so horrid NAB disaster and used it for a rant against free commerce.For Gray, the NAB trading loss, as trivial as it is, is illumination of his lucid insight, some OZ businessmen are no better than the old bureaucrats of the USSR. For Gray, the loss is also proof fro the need for expansion of the emerging police state.

A few things escape Gray, including the vulgar and false analogy and that turns on history.This,before zooming on his rot on economics and commerce. But Latham summed up things better with his promise to write in black and white `the right’s and obligations of citizens’. That notion of Latham’s traces back to the feudal period of which modern central, statist western europe under absolutist govt and rule by dictat,(excepting Switzerland) is the heir. It escapes Gray too.On this, as much as anything else, was built the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century; it was central to the notion of Macht and Recht which informed the history of govt. in Germany from Frederich the great to Bismarck and Hitler.Yup,Gray, compared to higher moral govt. free markets ,laissez faire has been a real corrupter and casue of so much oppression and misery.Just the line socialist wankers spout day in, day out.

A thrilling tribute to the great plan to overthrow rule of common law in favour of govt. administrative decree is contained in a speech by Jeffrey Lucy on FSR.

Lucy’s background is accounting, that is, administration.That accountants , as the Spectator pointed out several years ago, have morphed from eggheads into gorillas, is entirely due to the penchant of govts. to interfere in things which are none of their business whatsoever. That Lucy, after his appointment as head of Asic declared he’s `all for regulation’ , indeed more is better than even the currently sufficient stasiland controls each tier of govt. has put upon the shoulders of not citizens but, increasingly, the vassal serf to the govt and its vast army of kept enforcers and dependents.

Corruption of language is itself a sign of emerging totalitarianism. Burreaucratese is ugly testamtent to it : out comes, prescriptive measures, outcomes, anticipating clients needs, marketys, adapting to new things, all of it meaningless bilge. And they litter Lucy’s address on the wonders of FRS.

On FRS, Iwrote up a summary of the bill 2000/2001 for FRS.My summary was superior, more accurate and tougher on the import of the measures contained in the bill than that supplied by law firms written up by lawyers whos notion of law has nothing to do with common law and more closely resembles oracular consultation which, of course, is another corrupting consequence of govt regulation.

Neither bill nor subsequent acts, all four of them with more revisions on the way, simplify ( contrary to the claims in the Bill) exisitng acts and sqaures them with common law. To the contrary, much of the legislative hot air is still on the books. Instead, the bill contained three promises all realised: more govt dictatorial intervention, more costs imposed on businesses, and the creation of more criminal offences which otherwise would not stand a snowflake’s chance in hell of surviving two seconds in a court of common law.

It shows: though there is nothing in it, the NAB trading loss, trivial as it is, is the excuse ASIC is using to exercise the police state powers all the political parties in Canberra happily bestpowed on the paper shufflers.

Now, Latham isn’t satisfied with the amount of police state legislation on the books, equally exponentially added to by state and locla govts. No, Latham is planning more. Socialisto dictators, after all, wish to feel needed, even if it is only by bureaucratic sycophants.

As for Lucy’s Speech, agree or not its’ in pdf form, just over 5,000bytes.