You Ask Why?
By Mitch Berg
I ask “Why Not?”
A farmer built an entire mock castle behind a screen of hay bales…
Of course, the long, stultifying arm of the law is there to screw things up:
…and lived there concealed for four years to evade planning regulations, officials said on Friday — but it may be torn down anyway.
Robert Fidler hopes to take advantage of a provision of planning law that allows buildings without planning permission to be declared legal if no objections have been made after four years
But Reigate and Banstead Borough Council in Surrey is not impressed.
“It does not count because the property was hidden behind hay bales,” said a spokeswoman. “No one knew it was there.”
You’d think they had bigger things to worry about over there…
January 25th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Yeah, they need to worry about things like whether there are enough ‘Loyal’ Bushie in the Department of Justice. Or perhaps they should be wire-tapping people’s phones without permission or justification, and then claiming they can’t prove the need to violate the Constitution, because having to prove it would violate ‘shhhh’ – state secrets..
Talk about your stultifying long arm of the law. I’ll take that which ONLY intrudes so far as to tell me that avoiding zoning laws by living in a straw shack, isn’t really ok.
January 25th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Holy Christ, Peev. You really are six degrees separated from sanity. I’d weep for you, but you’d probably just respond with some sort of rambling narrative about wire tapping and how you’re picking up the missing 15 minutes of Nixon White House tapes in your fillings.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:08 am
Yeah, they need to worry about things like whether there are enough ‘Loyal’ Bushie in the Department of Justice.
Since the story takes place in the UK, technically that wouldn’t be an issue.
Or perhaps they should be wire-tapping people’s phones without permission or justification, and then claiming they can’t prove the need to violate the Constitution…
Actually, the Brits have very loose laws about that sort of thing. Vastly moreso than even the worst of the Bush administration’s alleged excesses.
Not that it’s on topic or anything.
January 25th, 2008 at 11:19 am
Illustrating, yet again, that the Brits (God love ’em) are all about proceedure.
At least their government is… this makes me think of “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister”. (The series is funny, because it is true.)
January 25th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I have no doubt, in Peev’s mind, the U.S. is still somehow a colony of the U.K.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Notice the “green Belt” is an issue.
“Green” has become the new mark of facism.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Pretty sure that fascism is still the mark of fascism, Tracy E. You may want to have a doctor look at that beam in your eye.
And to consult a dictionary when you’re spelling those hard two-syllable words.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
You may want to have a doctor look at that beam in your eye.
The ol’ “I know you are, but what am I” gambit.
I bow to the master debater.
January 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Angryclown isn’t green. You’re thinking of Kermit.
January 25th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
I have no doubt, in Peev’s mind, the U.S. is still somehow a colony of the U.K.
“Was the Declaration of Independence ever incorporated?”
January 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Great. Now Mitch is thinking like Peev. *shudder*
January 25th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Angryclown isn’t green. You’re thinking of Kermit.
I’m actually kinda beige. Just ask Mitch.
January 26th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
Now Mitch is thinking like Peev. *shudder*
I don’t just talk about supporting the Doctrine of Pre-Emption. I live it.