And Just To End The Week On A Positive Note: Me Thinks "How Bizarre, How Bizarre..."

"NCUA Board Chairman Debbie Matz said the

NCUA is contemplating proposing a rule that would require credit unions to encrypt the data provided to examiners in response to the examiner who lost a flash drive..." - CUTIMES

He's right!

George Will is usually right - far right; but is always acute in his Sunday commentaries for the Washington Post. He spoke to the "our fault, but you go to jail" mentality in a column (12/14/2014) titled: "The Plague of Too Many Crimes".  It made me think of the NCUA.

Will's theme was that "Overcriminalization has  become a national plague.  And when more and more behaviors are criminalized, there are more and more occasions for the police, who embody the state's monopoly on legitimate violence, ... to make mistakes."  It made me think of the NCUA. 

Again, this view from a "right-sided" observer!  He also noted that "... more than half of the 3,000 federal crimes are found not in the Federal Criminal Code but in numerous other statutes. And, by one estimate, at least 300,000 federal regulations can be enforced by agencies wielding criminal punishments. It made me think of the NCUA.

He continues that "Society needs laws; therefore it needs law enforcement. But today's political system takes "bizarre delight in creating new crimes" for enforcement."  It made me think of the NCUA.

We live "... in a Country with 5% of the world's population but 25% of its prisoners.  In 2012, 1 in every 108 American adults was behind bars...." The scandal of mass incarcerations partly produced by the frivolity of the political class... is evidence that American government is increasingly characterized by an ugly and sometimes lethal irresponsibility.  It made me think of the NCUA.

As we head into the next release of NCUA's "no-need-for-Congress", "we-answer-to-no-one" RBC self-legislation, supported by a built in "enough-of-your-stuff" budget, and a "we-know-what's-best-for-you" internal, non-public appeals process ... 

Hope you too will think about NCUA ...

"... every time I look around its in my face..."

... and any system which 
"... takes "bizarre delight in creating new crimes."