CryptoSeal shutters, ala: LavaBit

Kelly John Rose iam at kjro.se
Tue Oct 22 08:47:42 PDT 2013


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 10/22/13 11:31 -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:
>>
>>>
>>> <http://www.harveysilverglate.****com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.****aspx<
>>> http://www.**harveysilverglate.com/Books/**ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx<http://www.harveysilverglate.com/Books/ThreeFeloniesaDay.aspx>
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
> --
> Dan White
>


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