Comments on: It’s the Law…Now

By: Valery

Valery — Sun, 16 May 2010 19:02:00 +0000

Hah! Funny laws. It’s interesting- who creates them? I can’t remember our odd laws but we definitely have ones

By: Lina

Lina — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:47:47 +0000

Yea. In Singapore, we are not allowed to chew gums anywhere and we even cant’ bring those from other countries.
ah.. Do you know a tropical fruit Druian? Durian has a bit disgusting smell for someone. So, we are not allowed to carry it on the subway. if we do, they will say ” FINE 500 dollars ” instead of saying Fine, thanks.

By: Bahadore

Bahadore — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:58:41 +0000

I’m very sorry because of the wrong spelling of the word “vain” in my pervious response a few lines above.
I wanted to say “Why lots of congressmen squander their time approving such VAIN laws?” but unfortunately I typed “vein” instead (which makes the sentence doesn’t mean anything in particular).

Sorry again
Bahadore

By: Bakhtyar basher

Bakhtyar basher — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:22:38 +0000

That is good, it is the way that state of rules of law does work, keep going, your country is pionner since the end of world war two in the areas of democracy and rule of law and spreading them thoughout the world

By: emiliano

emiliano — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:09:44 +0000

Fazzito, thank you very much.
It seems a very interesting book that I´m looking for after reading some extract in Wiki.
I know nothing about it and I think I have to read something more from M. Foucault.

Thanks again.

By: Fazzito

Fazzito — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 13:04:45 +0000

I’d like to invite all of you to read Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault. It’s a amazing book about laws and their use by the State.

By: emiliano

emiliano — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:15:48 +0000

Nice topic indeed, I would like to write less but I can´t.
40.000 new laws in a year to 50 states?
Is there anybody who may know only 50 of the new laws?, but doing an easy division each state may have 8.000?
And wich is the penalty?
Money, money, money…….to the Government.
A good way of taking dollars off your pockets, of course.
Euros or wichever money a person has……..It´s always the same, money money…..

“The not knowledge of the law doesn´t exing the punishment”…so another ticket for you.

No, I don´t see the public benefit in doing so many laws every moment, what I see is the lure of taking your money off continously.
Less laws and better education to the children and citizens, that´s the way I think.
But the Administration has to survive, the judges, the lawyers, fiscals…and so on.

Is there a nation in the world with so many lawyers that USA?, I think no.
Over there if you haven´t a lawyer you may be lost in the jungle of Justice.

Here in Spain we have a Gispy´s malefice that says: “Pleitos tengas y los ganes” (“Judgments you have and gain them”).

The last experience with Justice and laws has been Laura´s, my daughter.
She rented her flat along more than three years to a person that didn´t pay her anything for the last three years.
She went to the Justicie, paid a lawyer, the judgment, everybody at the court……..for nothing.
At the end she resqued her flat destroyed, without anything and she has to spend more that 15.ooo euros restoring and buying
furniture for her flat.
She has got nothing from justice, the man is free without paying anything and having all he wanted he left the flat at the end.
Justice results……none.
All this confirm my previous ideas about so many bad laws here in Spain. If you are not going to pay anything to the
State, all is very slowly…..but if you get a ticket that is faster.

By: dongsung

dongsung — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:06:48 +0000

I’m the one of the people who observes the law well without any complaints. I think modern law is made for every people who live in their own countries can have equal rights or fairness on certain circumstances. Before some law is made, there will have had lots of problems upon some matter. I’m not the only person living in this world. There are lot of people are living with each others. To live in harmony, laws should be existed.

By: francesco

francesco — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:02:27 +0000

Hi guys! Nice topic this week… Last year in Italy, precisely in Naples,it was passed a law that said that it’s forbidden to smoke cigarettes in all parks were children used to play especially close to a pregnant woman! thus you’ll get a ticket. Moreover, in a region in the North of Italy it’s also illegal for guys to gather if they are more than 3 people!!… for security!! I think that politicians are taking too much seriously this issue of security in Italy and sometimes they release strange, unusual and nonsense laws at all!!!

By: Bahadore

Bahadore — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:45:58 +0000

Thank you Lucy for this interesting post.

I really wonder why it matters not to cut off a cow’s tail! I mean why for example in California cutting off the tail of a cat is not illegal? (I’m not sure; maybe it is!).
Why lots of congressmen squander their time approving such vein laws? (Again I’m not sure about the usefulness of this particular case).

Thanks
Bahador