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2022-05-16

... when first we practise to deceive.

This article from the AIER concerns the misuse of regulation to impose rules and laws made for a different purpose altogether to force corporations to comply with what amounts to little more than the personal preferences of the regulators (or others in positions of authority).

Nobody voted for this form of coercion, yet it seems to have become a favoured way to sidestep democratic accountability by others both within and without the USA.

For example, who can forget Mark Carney of the Bank of England forecasting that those companies that did not embrace the "climate change" narrative would be bankrupted?

The AIER draws attention to a not dissimilar situation within the USA: 

"Graham Steele described a detailed plan to use federal financial regulatory agency powers to implement a new national industrial policy without legislation"

"Climate-change regulations would take the form of heightened capital requirements for bank loans to greenhouse gas (GHG) intensive firms and activities"

What this boils down to is a lack of integrity by people who were never empowered to pursue an objective (in this case "climate change") using or creating rules not designed for the purpose.

Malfeasance in public office? Without a ruinously expensive lawsuit, who knows?

What we do know is that they undermine the whole basis of democracy and accountability by so doing.

Read the article.