05-29-2009, 02:28 AM
ham Wrote:In recent years in Italy they adopted this bizarre law making tax thresholds forecast by government final. In other words, whatever the government deems you should pay this year is considered factual, and no longer a simple estimate of esoteric origin that many challenged in court.
Well, you'd expect a row of god fearing citizens applying to black-robed Torquemadas for just relief in the name of the Constitution or other CACATA CARTA that supposedly make our loving post-WWII world go round.
Wrong.
Superior courts 'made it known' not to waste time...that they'd reject any appeal on the matter.
Now not even Nazi Germany went that far (in fact, some were 'judged out' of concentration camps still in 1943 ).
The reason is that big brother needs the amount of money it says it needs, not one cent less...
Of course the good shepherd needs that in order to lead us, mindless flock, to the valley of plenty where he will offer us a feast in front of our enemies blahblah...
What about Germany? They send lawyers to jail for introducing evidence in court to defend people charged as hate criminals. Perhaps only the rhetoric has changed but the mindset remains.