Lawrence Lessig, known for his work on copyrights, recently posted on following the rules where he discusses when it’s done, why it’s done and why it’s not done. To help illustrate his point, he posted a video of a news segment (which I’ll also include here) on the Texas legislature and their blatent disregard for the rules (rules that they themselves voted on).

It’s pretty disgusting how the laws are getting increasingly strict for regular citizens to vote and increasingly harsh when regular citizens bend the rules when voting and then having our lawmakers act like this. Then to top it off, state representative Riddle tries to justify it all by saying how grueling their schedule is. It’s pretty incredible.What I would like answered is how are we to ask our senators and representatives to make a difference when they may not even be the one casting their own vote? Admittedly I don’t know how widespread this problem is, but it seems that we need our own lawmakers to start following the rules before we can ask them to help pass and enforce laws on our behalf.