Even if not an offical trope... this is basically what happens to every veil ever instituted... eventually the main reason for the veil is not to cover up the supernatural, but instead to cover up what has been done to protect the veil. This is evident in Harry Potter with all the mental editing... I'm personally convinced that the MiB are now having the issue that if they ever stop neuralizing people and the truth came out that thousands would go berserk or need a rubber room as all the suggestions come undone at the same time. Actually, the best reason I've heard for a veil is from FSN and that rest of that verse... magic works better the less people that actually know how that spell works... they call them mysteries for a reason. Break the veil and some idiot will try to open source everything... which will cause that mystery to stop working as the power of the mystery is spread out through to many people to actually do anything.
As 'The Adjustment Bureau' has concluded that the problem is 'free will' and not how they only count people as having 'free will' on occasions where things are snarled up beyond their ability to control things. I get the feeling that 'free will' is a coorperate buzzword for 'we have written are plans into a corner'. From context, I'm guessing that David had begun building up an immunity to their manipulations. I don't think him not making a concession speech was in the 'plan' at all. I mean they actually were trying to bribe him into cooperating with the 'plan' with the presidency... rather than just making it so. From inference... I don't think the Archduke was schedualled for assasssination.
I'm running off the wiki article, but I'm guessing 'free will' incidents are more common that they like to admit... want to take that group down? Just have David meet some people from the resistance. The Adjustment Bureau seems to lack the manpower to control everything at once. So I'm guessing they pick high value targets. David meeting a girl in a bathroom stall and making an inspirational speech is just high level and random enough to draw their fire. Note they wanted to 'reset' his campaign manger and not David himself. David seems to have beaten their 'destined' candiate from left field and the movie is about stalling/black mailing David into submission rather than anything else. If The Adjustment Bureau had the level of control they claimed, David should have been randomly assassinated in a 'mugging gone wrong' rather than the rest of the movie.
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I think the citation is (as your vague on what your calling BS on):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
If you want a blatent example of that law... pick a labor union in the US... basically any of them. For me, the point of a labor union is to form, address issues between the employers and employee, resolve the issue and then dissolve as its served its purpose. The union reforms only when they are actually needed to address afor this purpose. After the 1930-40s they kind of became permenent (often mob run) fixtures in the work place. In order to keep a temporary institution around this long they eventually have to have full time employees who look for and find issues to be addressed. Even if they have to make something up... in fact the point of the union is then to find excuses to keep the union around. Its literal job is to validate its own existance rather that being the force that bridges the gap between workers and boss. This strangled the industries these perment unions latched onto... today the US has only around 7% of the private work force in unions.
Teachers unions and nursing unions are infamous for chaining contract negoiations... they keep ranting to the press about not how long they've gone without a contract... then stalling the contract negotiations out for an average of 18 months after the old one expires. Then they start in on negotiating the next contract a few months later. Which will drag out until 18 months or so after that contract expires.
As 'The Adjustment Bureau' has concluded that the problem is 'free will' and not how they only count people as having 'free will' on occasions where things are snarled up beyond their ability to control things. I get the feeling that 'free will' is a coorperate buzzword for 'we have written are plans into a corner'. From context, I'm guessing that David had begun building up an immunity to their manipulations. I don't think him not making a concession speech was in the 'plan' at all. I mean they actually were trying to bribe him into cooperating with the 'plan' with the presidency... rather than just making it so. From inference... I don't think the Archduke was schedualled for assasssination.
I'm running off the wiki article, but I'm guessing 'free will' incidents are more common that they like to admit... want to take that group down? Just have David meet some people from the resistance. The Adjustment Bureau seems to lack the manpower to control everything at once. So I'm guessing they pick high value targets. David meeting a girl in a bathroom stall and making an inspirational speech is just high level and random enough to draw their fire. Note they wanted to 'reset' his campaign manger and not David himself. David seems to have beaten their 'destined' candiate from left field and the movie is about stalling/black mailing David into submission rather than anything else. If The Adjustment Bureau had the level of control they claimed, David should have been randomly assassinated in a 'mugging gone wrong' rather than the rest of the movie.
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I think the citation is (as your vague on what your calling BS on):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle
If you want a blatent example of that law... pick a labor union in the US... basically any of them. For me, the point of a labor union is to form, address issues between the employers and employee, resolve the issue and then dissolve as its served its purpose. The union reforms only when they are actually needed to address afor this purpose. After the 1930-40s they kind of became permenent (often mob run) fixtures in the work place. In order to keep a temporary institution around this long they eventually have to have full time employees who look for and find issues to be addressed. Even if they have to make something up... in fact the point of the union is then to find excuses to keep the union around. Its literal job is to validate its own existance rather that being the force that bridges the gap between workers and boss. This strangled the industries these perment unions latched onto... today the US has only around 7% of the private work force in unions.
Teachers unions and nursing unions are infamous for chaining contract negoiations... they keep ranting to the press about not how long they've gone without a contract... then stalling the contract negotiations out for an average of 18 months after the old one expires. Then they start in on negotiating the next contract a few months later. Which will drag out until 18 months or so after that contract expires.