The facts and the law only matter when the government doesn't have a hard on for you. If the government wants to get you [and, perhaps, if you're not a millionaire "sports figure"] it will get you. The crime bill just makes the task a bit easier.
This is quite accurate. Howard Zinn makes the same point in _Declarations of Independence_. He describes an incident during the '60s when a group of black civil rights demonstrators approached him and asked if they would be within their legal rights conducting a demonstration on a public street. Zinn responded that they would be, but that their legal rights were irrelevant; the police would arrest them anyway. After citing a number of such examples, he concludes that law is made not by legislators and judges, but by the policman's club. - Mark - -- Mark Chen chen@netcom.com 415/329-6913 finger for PGP public key D4 99 54 2A 98 B1 48 0C CF 95 A5 B0 6E E0 1E 1D