Awash in Unknown Laws

08/06/2011

Americans are now awash in an avalanche of laws and regulations they can’t possible know or keep, and it’s tangling thousands of them in legal actions, even prosecutions. George Terwilliger was a U.S. deputy attorney general under the George H.W. Bush administration, and he says we need to get this under control because it’s killing business.

Next we’ll examine the BATF’s “Fast and Furious” arms running program, whereby the agency apparently sanctioned illegal sales of weapons to “straw” buyers acting on behalf of Mexican drug cartels. One of these resulted in the death of an American border agent. Jim Gilchrist from the Minuteman Project (www.minutemanproject.com) joins us.

John’s extended boralogue analyzes the worldview dynamics underlying the debt ceiling comic drama that unraveled in Washington.

 

Want more resources on these topics? Here are some previous programs you might find interesting:

• The Future of Church/State Conflict
• Influence
• Forgettism
• Separation from Reality
• Salvaging Existing Freedoms
• Silver Anniversary
• The Weather Underground and Change Agents
• The CIA and Weapons Trafficking with Al-Qaeda
• Value Added Constitution
• How Global Elites View Fiscal Cliffs and Other Trivia
• Security Weekend
• When First We Practice to Deceive