Law & Paneir

by Paul Craig Roberts What is the greatest human achievement? Many would answer in terms of some architectural or engineering feat: The Great Pyramids, skyscrapers, a bridge span, or sending men to the moon. Others might say the subduing of some deadly disease or Einstein's theory of relativity. The greatest human achievement is the subordination of government to law. This was an English achievement that required eight centuries of struggle, beginning in the ninth century when King Alfred the Great codified the common law, moving forward with the Magna Carta in the thirteenth century and culminating with the Glorious Revolution in the late seventeenth century. The success of this long struggle made law a shield of the people. As an English colony, America inherited this unique achievement that made English-speaking peoples the most free in the world. In the first decade of the twenty-first century, this achievement was lost in the United States and, perhaps, in England ...

Again the prices of consumer products are up again. There are no justifications. Consumers got shocked and surprised. There will be a domino factor. The rise of prices of other products will hampered the consumers further. What our rights as the consumers to stop the price hiking? Do we just accepted it or whether there are any provisions under the existing legislations to protect us as the consumers? Interestingly until this point, the consumer associations kept mum about this issue. Sometimes I don't understand these pressure groups' role. They supposed pressed the authority not to increase the prices of necessary goods but always keep away. Again I need pay more for my teh tarik but who cares???