For decades administrative agencies have jealously guarded their near authoritarian power by forcing those accused of violating agency rules to proceed through layer upon layer of agency review before a “final agency order” is declared and available for appeal. Often, once the agency deems a regulated company or individual in violation of its rules, it imposes fines and interest upon the fines each day the accused fails to pay. In this way, the party accused is placed in a dire predicament. The accused must either pay or must risk losing in a system that is biased against the accused, often placing at risk hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars. As you might well imagine, most companies and individuals never make it through the agency gauntlet, accepting the agency’s punishment or settling with the agency, regardless of how unjust and burdensome the terms, to avoid greater fines, interest, and penalties.
Federal agencies possess legislative and executive or legislative, executive, and judicial powers that they wield with virtually no checks. They rule as if they were absolute monarchs, making the laws that govern those they regulate, accusing those they regulate of violating the laws, and judging the law violations. There is in this no true separation of functions. The judge who made the law is also the prosecutor, depriving all of any real hope of impartial justice. Those who head the agencies are often corrupt and use their power to enhance their own prospects for post-government employment, picking winners and losers based on the effect those choices will have on the agency head’s financial and political future. Read more: http://www.newswithviews.com/Emord/jonathan238.htm
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