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1 posted on 10/08/2009 4:12:04 AM PDT by Portnoy
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To: Portnoy
indeed. and when everything's illegal, only criminals will do anything.

that's deep. I mean, life itself will be criminal...how utterly logical for a culture of death.

wow. sometimes things make sense after all.

2 posted on 10/08/2009 4:15:31 AM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Isn't the Golden Mean the secret to something," I parried? "Yes," Blue replied. "Mediocrity.")
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Madness, utter madness. A SWAT team to chase orchids??? Someone is not only incompetent, but very likely insane.


5 posted on 10/08/2009 4:32:19 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (w)
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We are all becoming criminals

Well, duh. That's the idea of Big Gubmint.
Make enough laws, and/or worse 'regulations', then eventually you are bound to break one.

6 posted on 10/08/2009 5:18:28 AM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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I googled this and found an article in the Washington Times from Oct 5th. Two interesting paragraphs from that article:

The judge who sentenced Mr. Norris had some advice for him and his wife: "Life sometimes presents us with lemons." Their job was, yes, to "turn lemons into lemonade."

The judge apparently failed to appreciate how difficult it is to run a successful lemonade stand when you're an elderly diabetic with coronary complications, arthritis and Parkinson's disease serving time in a federal penitentiary. If only Mr. Norris had been a Libyan terrorist, maybe some European official at least would have weighed in on his behalf to secure a health-based mercy release.

7 posted on 10/08/2009 5:35:27 AM PDT by Shannon
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We need to reflect on the abundance of laws written by local, state and federal legislative bodies. If every single one of these laws could be enforced, we would not sing about being the “land of the free”, we would sing about being the “land of the oppressed”.

Stop and consider for a moment that there are over 20,000 gun laws actively on the books in this country and not a single one of them will stop the next gun-related crime!!

This is why legislative bodies need to have their own “Cap ‘n Trade” program. They can only write so many laws before they reach their cap. If they want to write more, they will have to trade the new law with one that already exists and the legislative body will not have the ability to increase the cap - only the people will be able to increase the cap.

Abuses such as this by US Fish and Wildlife are beyond outrageous, they are absurd. How much did all of this idiocy by a federal government agency cost the US taxpayer over a paperwork fiasco?? How much did Mr. Norris’ trial and incarceration cost us??

We should be demanding our money back!!


8 posted on 10/08/2009 5:36:19 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: Portnoy

Geez- and the jury convicted on this case?


10 posted on 10/08/2009 7:19:19 AM PDT by Sarajevo (You're jealous because the voices only talk to me.)
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