Drug laws are a good example. Where politicians openly admit to
   breaking the law with no consequences.
   On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, Dan White wrote:

     On 10/22/1311:31-0400, Kelly John Rose wrote:

     Stuff like this almost always makes me wish the DoJ was more
     diligent. If
     you want to see excess laws removed from the books, have them
     enforced as
     written. Suddenly a lot of senators families will be arrested and
     rich
     individuals in jail (along with almost everyone else).

     What kinds of laws are we talking about? I'm genuinely interested in
     laws
     (particularly US federal) that may unwittingly end me up in jail if
     I were
     to encounter an over-zealous prosecutor.
     The book mentioned below seems to focus on something different,
     based on
     this Amazon review:
     "With such a provocative title, I expected a thorough list of ways
     that
     ordinary citizens can be unwittingly trapped by federal law. Maybe a
     handful of frightening anecdotes, maybe some telling historical
     analysis.
     Instead, after two lengthy introductions, I find a dense chapter
     defending
     ... a Florida politician accused of corruption. And a Massachusetts
     governor. And a Massachusetts House speaker. When I got to the
     chapter
     defending Michael Milken I started skimming instead of reading.
     Don't get me wrong: if those people were railroaded, then they
     deserved
     better. But those aren't the sort of stories that excite people's
     sympathy.
     I'd much rather hear about innocent doctors getting tried for
     prescribing
     legal painkillers (which Silverglate does address, albeit later), or
     citizens being sent away for behavior that nobody knew was illegal.
     When
     Silverglate writes about one politician going after another, my
     blood
     doesn't exactly boil at the injustice being done.
     Silverglate writes with a didactic, passionate style. It's likely to
     inflame the hearts of people who already care about civil liberties.
     But
     for people who don't see expanding federal power as that big of a
     deal, a
     sob story about how Ken Lay was strung up won't elicit any sympathy.
     All of the above would make the book 4 stars. I'm giving it 3 stars
     because
     it's a substandard Kindle edition. There's no table of contents. The
     footnotes don't hyperlink to the end of the text (a feature in every
     other
     footnoted book I've read on Kindle). And for a book that's been out
     nearly
     a year, it's still far too expensive."

     After that the politicians will fall over themselves to remove the
     law from
     the books. Or at least amend it.
     On Tuesday, October 22, 2013, David wrote:

     <[1]http://www.harveysilverglate.**com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.**asp
     x<[2]http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx>
     >
     Three Felonies a Day is the story of how citizens from all walks of
     lifedoctors, accountants, businessmen, political activists, and
     othershave found themselves the targets of federal prosecutions,
     despite
     sensibly believing that they did nothing wrong, broke no laws, and
     harmed
     not a single person. From the perspective of both a legal
     practitioner who
     has represented the wrongfully-accused, and of a legal observer who
     has
     written about these trends for the past four decades, Three Felonies
     a Day
     brings home how individual liberty is threatened by zealous crusades
     from
     the Department of Justice. Even the most intelligent and informed
     citizen
     (including lawyers and judges, for that matter) cannot predict with
     any
     reasonable assurance whether a wide range of seemingly ordinary
     activities
     might be regarded by federal prosecutors as felonies.

     --
     Dan White

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References

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