This is more timely after six years, not less.
It also brings to mind the quote from Atlas Shrugged about making every man a criminal in order to control him.
To: ChildOfThe60s
Boston civil-liberties lawyer Harvey Silverglate calls his new book "Three Felonies a Day," referring to the number of crimes he estimates the average American now unwittingly commits because of vague laws. New technology adds its own complexity, making innocent activity potentially criminal. Mr. Silverglate describes several cases in which prosecutors didn't understand or didn't want to understand technology. This problem is compounded by a trend that has accelerated since the 1980s for prosecutors to abandon the principle that there can't be a crime without criminal intent. PFL
2 posted on
07/01/2015 6:09:23 PM PDT by
Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
To: ChildOfThe60s
You Commit Three Felonies a Day Professor, does that apply to politicians too, sir?
3 posted on
07/01/2015 6:12:16 PM PDT by
VRW Conspirator
(American Jobs for American Workers)
To: ChildOfThe60s
4 posted on
07/01/2015 6:14:45 PM PDT by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Was just thinking of this topic and book.
Six years have passed since publication, and things have only gotten worse.
For example:
US banks have been recently instructed to report any bank customers who withdraw $5000+ from their account to the DOJ, supposedly to prevent structured money movement tax evasion.
2012 NDAA provisions include indefinite detention of US citizens deemed hostile to the USA.
Sh!T is happening so fast...
5 posted on
07/01/2015 6:16:16 PM PDT by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Only 3? Damn, I'm going to have to try a lot harder!
6 posted on
07/01/2015 6:18:09 PM PDT by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: ChildOfThe60s
“Did you really think that we want those laws to be observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against—then you’ll know that this is not the age for beautiful gestures. We’re after power and we mean it. You fellows were pikers, but we know the real trick, and you’d better get wise to it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there it that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced nor objectively interpreted—and you create a nation of lawbreakers—and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”—Atlas Shrugged
7 posted on
07/01/2015 6:21:37 PM PDT by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Yes, but "Felony" Clinton committed NO felonies with her little email server scheme.
Pull the other one. The gruberment has lost all credibility.
Everything they do is at gunpoint, now.
8 posted on
07/01/2015 6:28:51 PM PDT by
kiryandil
(Egging the battleship USS Sarah Palin from their little Progressive rowboats...)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Speaking as a former Prosecutor ... this is so VERY true. The State (and I don’t just mean the Feds) has more power than you can possibly imagine and it is just getting worse.
They want you in jail, you WILL go to jail.
To: ChildOfThe60s
but Jon Gruber, Al Sharpton and Jon Corzine are laughing all the way to the bank.
11 posted on
07/01/2015 6:37:27 PM PDT by
Kid Shelleen
(Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
To: ChildOfThe60s
It’s called selective enforcement.
But, quite frankly. why should any citizen care about accidentally breaking some obscure law when the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the federal government have completely rejected the rule of law?
If you are going to break the law anyway, make it count. Aim for the bulls-eye.
15 posted on
07/01/2015 8:16:17 PM PDT by
unlearner
(RIP America, 7/4/1776 - 6/26/2015, "Only God can judge us now." - Claus Von Stauffenberg / Valkyrie)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Three felonies a day? HA! What a bunch of rank amateurs. I strive to commit at least five before lunch. Someone has to keep all of those unelected bureaucrats on their toes.
17 posted on
07/01/2015 9:35:44 PM PDT by
factoryrat
(We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
The first crime is talking to the police if you are being questioned.
18 posted on
07/01/2015 9:40:43 PM PDT by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
To: ChildOfThe60s
19 posted on
07/01/2015 9:45:39 PM PDT by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: ChildOfThe60s
You Commit Three Felonies a DayMore if I get out of bed.
21 posted on
07/01/2015 9:49:01 PM PDT by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
To: ChildOfThe60s
Runaway Government—How Prosecutorial Overreach Runs Roughshod over Civil Liberties, 33:23 YouTube segment on RealClear Radio Hour with Bill Frezza.
Published on May 25, 2014
Harvey Silverglate, Boston lawyer, activist, civil liberties advocate, and author of
Three Felonies a Day, warns against the increase in federal criminal prosecutions and the risk of being railroaded into plea-bargained guilty pleas under vague and selectively enforced laws.
22 posted on
07/02/2015 4:23:29 AM PDT by
Amagi
(Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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