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"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, August 30, 2013

Dozens of Conservative MPs defied David Cameron over Syria: "Cavalier and Reckless"

Kaiser Barry
The world is looking at another obscure conflict where we only have foes.  m/r
Guns of August:

Julian Lewis, the MP for New Forest East said Britain should not "lob weapons" into the Syrian "powder keg".
He said: "Next year we are going to be commemorating the centenary of events in 1914.
"Those events have a worrying parallel. You have a series of actions and reactions which drew in, in an escalating action, one country after another.
"Nobody thought the assassination of an obscure archduke would lead to a world conflagration.


Dozens of Conservative MPs defied David Cameron over Syria - Telegraph
Friday 30 August 2013  By 


Dozens of Conservative MPs have openly defied David Cameron to criticise his plans for military action in Syria and side with Ed Miliband.


In a bid to quell the growing rebellion, Mr Cameron had at lunchtime attempted to persuade his MPs to back him by holding a meeting with backbenchers in Parliament.
Sources close to the Prime Minister claimed that MPs left the meeting satisfied and were prepared to support the Government.
However, as MPs debated the Government motion in the Commons it became clear that a large number of backbenchers were preparing to flout Mr Cameron’s authority.
David Davis, the Tory MP for Haltemprice and Howden, who fought Mr Cameron for the leadership of the party in 2005, warned that the intelligence produced by the Government could be wrong. 
“We must consider, being where we've been before in this House, that our intelligence as it stands might just be wrong because it was before and we have got to be very, very hard in testing it,” he said.
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