At this point, the only real solution to this is to start taking your responsibilities when you sit on juries more seriously. I'd have a very hard time convicting anyone of just about any crime that did not have a readily identifiable victim. If more people understood their responsibilities as jurists, the country would be in a lot better shape.
My plan on the whole overcriminalization phenomenon is to require that for every bill passed at the federal and state level, two be repealed. Lawmakers want milk in schools? Two laws come off the books! Want to protect a trout in the Great Lakes Basin? Two more laws come off the books! Want a consumer protection bill? Two more laws come off the books!
Call it the "Blackdog PORKT" Act! (pass one required kill two) And to pass my bill, I offer up anything froma dead Kennedy and a Banking law from Barney Frank, to pay my way.
Except for the fact that the majority of “crimes” of this sort are accomplished without juries. “Civil” and administrative actions can be just as expensive to the unsuspecting “criminal.”
There are no laws governing the conduct of civil and administrative officers such as social workers, inspectors, and the vast number of alphabet soup agency workers. Arbitrary doesn’t come close to describing the requirements imposed without reason, mercy, or common decency. They are not beyond the law; they simply make it up as they go. And there is no recourse and no recompense for the victim.
The triumph of statutory law over common law has outlawed the common man while the triumph of unaccountable regulatory authorities has degraded our system beyond recognition or repair.
Any time a regular person opposes the government, it’s at the government’s leisure and at the defendant’s expense. You can’t outlast them and you can’t outspend them.