“You’re (probably) a federal criminal,” declares Alex Kozinski, an appeals-court judge, in a provocative essay of that title. Making a false statement to a federal official is an offence. So is lying to someone who then repeats your lie to a federal official. Failing to prevent your employees from breaking regulations you have never heard of can be a crime. A boss got six months in prison because one of his workers accidentally broke a pipe, causing oil to spill into a river. “It didn’t matter that he had no reason to learn about the [Clean Water Act’s] labyrinth of regulations, since he was merely a railroad-construction supervisor,” laments Judge Kozinski.This is what you should know: Every free adult person in the United States of America is an unprosecuted felon. With enough prosecutors and enough cops, they could lock up all of us.
We all pay for this insanity in taxes. We all pay in that heavily armed cops wearing body armor and carrying out Gestapo-style searches on elderly flower sellers and raw food sellers pushes this country further and further over the borderline of being a police state.
This needs to be brought under control.
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America today reminds me of Saddam's Iraq. We all know now, the hard way, that the majority of Iraqis were heavily armed with AK-47's and RPG's and plenty of ammo for both, and could likely have taken out Saddam just as easily as the U.S. forces did in 2003. Yet they didn't. Why? Because Saddam was careful to only focus on oppressing those people. People not like us (the majority). People who were maybe a different ethnicity (Kurds), who were criminals, who tried to upset the political stability of Saddam's Iraq, you know, those people. Life in Saddam's Iraq for the majority that was willing to keep their head down and go along to get along was generally pretty good, better than in today's disintegrating Iraq (thus why the Iraqi government had to execute him within minutes of getting their hands on him, or there would have been a risk of him being put back into power again by Iraqis reminiscing about the "good old days"), so the majority simply didn't care that they were led by a brutal tyrant who imposed arbitrary law that was really only enforced against "those" people...
We are all Iraqis now.
- Badtux the Sovok Penguin
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