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). 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:
On 10/22/13 9:47 AM, J.A. Terranson wrote:
Anyone who operates a business commits hundreds of felonies daily.
They can always find something.
s/operates a business/breathes/
It's been that way for a long time now.
Three Felonies a Day is the story of how citizens from all walks of life—doctors, accountants, businessmen, political activists, and others—have 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.
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