Goodbye to 2015, a year of absurdity and overreach
writes
George Will.
We learned that a dismal threshold has been passed. The value of
property that police departments seized through civil asset forfeiture —
usually without accusing, let alone convicting, the property owners of a
crime — exceeded the value of property stolen by nongovernment burglars.
… The Internal Revenue Service persecutes conservative advocacy groups but
does not prosecute IRS employees who are tax cheats: An audit revealed
that over the past decade, the IRS fired only 400 of the 1,580 employees who deliberately violated tax laws, rather than the 100 percent required by law.
There's more — much more — at
the link…
This list of 2015 ludicrousness could be lengthened indefinitely, but
enough already. The common thread is the collapse of judgment in, and
the infantilization of society by, government. Happier New Year.
