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8 Fruit from a Poisonous Tree

All the confusion over an eighty-page Act then is exponentially
compounded now by the current ten thousand-plus page Internal Revenue
Code 26 USC, along with more than thirty thousand pages of implementing
Internal Revenue regulations – 26 CFR and some borrowed from 27 CFR. It
is now practically impossible for citizens to keep track of government’s latest
edicts.
Today the law has become a tool with which to force people to behave in
ways politicians approve, which is politically correct, rather than a clear line
that citizens can respect in order to live their lives in privacy and peace.
With the proliferation of retroactive regulations, government
agencies now have the right to change the rules of the game at any
time, even after the game is over.
The “Rule of John Ashcroft,” whereby federal officials on a whim create
new rules to bind and penalize private citizens, has replaced the Rule of Law
– the classical concept endorsed by the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780
as a restraint on government power.
Each night we are deluged with “cop” shows that reveal how far out of
its box the beast of government has crawled. Government agents dressed
like military commandos wearing black jumpsuits, bulletproof vests and
armament that would give a seasoned military force pause to reflect, wear full
head masks to conceal their identity. No one busy doing the constitutional
work of the Republic needs to wear ski masks concealing their identity.
Criminals and outlaws wear masks, not constitutional officers. They bash in
doors and throw the inhabitants to the floor, screaming children watching in
horror as their parents are manacled and dragged off to prison.
The government is supposed to set the example that we the citizens are
required to emulate. When the government breaks the law, then there exists
no law. We have anarchy. That, I am afraid, is the state of the union as of
today.
In the famous Supreme Court case of Elkins Et Al v. United States, 364
U.S. 206, the Court, reinforcing judicial integrity, stated:
“In a government of laws, existence of the government will be imperiled
if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent,
the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its
example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it
breeds contempt for law, it invites every man to become a law unto himself,
and it invites anarchy.”
The time in which Justice Brandeis spoke was a simpler time, and the
government had not broken the chains with which the Constitution bound it
down. Unfortunately, the federal judiciary has opted out of the Separation of
Powers doctrine of the Constitution, and now has become self-regulating.