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| Rule Of Law: Optional Extra or just harder to get caught? |
Has the world suddenly gotten just a little too hard to do the right thing, or a too easy to do the wrong thing? All the top guys in power and money all seem to be losing their faith in honesty. Maybe they aren't enough lawyers or too many but either way, everyone, everywhere is tearing up the law and playing their own game.
Three points strike me immediately, and one other, I found just this morning.
On Saturday, Hans Michelbach claimed that the European Central Bank's Mario Draghi has decided to break a treaty by buying useless bonds from Cyprus and Greece. Austria and its Chancellor Werner Faymann will sue the European Commission (in the European Court of Justice) if green energy subsidies are given the green light to build Nuclear power plants, which France's EDF are attempting to do in Hinckley Point, UK.
And of course, The People's Communist Party in China are ignoring their own laws. The bit of paper where it says Hong Kong can vote its own people in and enjoy trouble free protests for fifty years, apparently lost somewhere in Beijing and the PCP, forgotten what it said.
Another bit of news,
Samsung have apparently paid what they owe to Microsoft, but diligently failed to pay the interest as if to make a statement 'the law doesn't apply to me' or 'I know better, so I'm going to personally amend the rules.' If that weren't bad enough, there's those reneging on their own words, and not just those laid out by a judge. Some might say that's not as bad but for others, it's worse.
Right honourable David Cameron PM, vowing his Scottish referendum winners some newly devolved power, failed to mention he'd want some back from Scotland should the Union remain intact. Hardly breaking the law, but as blatantly dishonest as one can get without being thrown in prison. Either there's an element of lacking self respect to stick to ones own word, a presence of self denial or schizophrenia where the original agreement was, a mistake or accident the perpetrator was unaware of. Perhaps it's just that as time goes along, people tend to just change their minds out of the blue and of course, there's also pre-meditative, deliberate untruth.
Will the law ever catch up with any of these forgetful word-smiths and 'alleged' criminals? Somehow I highly doubt it. With a world wide consensus, something along the lines of 'If everyone's doing it, it's okay.' or 'I've got enough money for some really good lawyers / judges.' then the biggest scoundrels just grow bigger balls. Somehow, somewhere, an example needs to be made before this sort of thing truly gets out of anyone's control.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I'd say all of these are just a brand new way to launder money through the courts, everyone's beginning to catch on and board the gravy train.
