RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Old laws

["Heivilin, Jim" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McNutt, Justin M. 
> Subject: RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Old laws
> > I would have been fine with it if the law was evoked within
<snip>
> > This is so crazy that I'm really surprised I haven't seen it in the 
> > national news.
> 
> This is an old thread, but there's something in it that 
> drives me crazy, so I'm responding.
> 
No kidding. 

> The idea that a rule, law, or decision must be used soon 
<snip>
> sudden become invalid because "that law was written decades 
> ago and hasn't been used for years."
> 
While I agree with this I also think that at some point the laws need to
be reviewed to see if they still apply.  Some of the laws passed in the
17th or 18th century which are still on the books may not make a lot of
sense to our society now.  So rather than repeal them out of hand or
leave them there to be evoked by someone with no common sense, we ought
to look at them and modify them if necessary, repeal them if not. 

> This idea that anything that isn't part of the current public 
> consciousness is invalid is a common LANMAN weapon against 
> IATS, and it's crap.  Just because you don't remember it or 
> didn't READ the policy doesn't make the policy, law, rule, 
> whatever invalid.
> 
But they're always right, didn't you get the memo? 

Jim

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