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Do you REALLY put tax evasion and ID fraud in the same category of homicidal bombings? Give me a break!

Look, NO ONE denies that these people broke the law. Right now I am listening to "Yellow Submarine" on my MP3 list, which is (although I have paid for the album in the past) technically "illegal." I have, even today, broken the laws regulating speed limits. More than that, I have been legally drunk while driving, left income unreported, shoplifted, insulted and assaulted a police officer, bought and sold enough illicit drugs to be an amateur pharmacist..., and other things best left unmentioned (my life has been colorful!). What I am saying is that some of those offenses are serious and call for jail time, and some are peccadilloes. It is the absolute unwillingness of many freepers to grant this distinction to illegal immigrants while they gleefully give it to themselves that call for accusations of "hypocrisy." And it is hypocrisy.

Do you REALLY put tax evasion and ID fraud in the same category of homicidal bombings? Give me a break!

EXCUSE ME??? When in the world did I compare ID Theft & Fraud to homicidal bombings???

I'm glad of how many laws you've broken in your 'colorful' life, but as I said, you (the same as they) KNEW the possible consequences and were willing to take the risks in breaking those laws. This has nothing to do with Civil Disobedience either. How would you feel if, for instance, you and an illegal immigrant were arrested for the same crime and they got preferential treatment simply because they were here illegally? Do you think that is justice to you, or those you harmed with your actions that they would require you to serve jail time, but let an illegal immigrant walk free?

What's kind of funny is that you would admit to breaking the laws you just mentioned on a public forum... Are you really that daft? Do you think admitting to drunken driving, buying and selling illicit drugs, assaulting a police officer, etc... is going to win anyone over to your point of view?

As far as peccadillos -- are you suggesting that ID Theft, Tax Evasion and Social Security Fraud do not harm others and should go completely unpunished?

My point was why do these people deserve preferential treatment vs. Citizens who commit the same crimes?

Can you answer to any of the other points I put forward in my missives to you, or is it just that you think it's OK to break the law, and think that everyone else in this world has broken laws and just doesn't admit it so somehow you are right in living your life the way you do? Again, it doesn't sound like you're speaking of any sort of Civil Disobedience, but instead believe that it's alright to ignore the laws you've decided 'shouldn't really matter', and aren't THAT serious???

Right now I am listening to "Yellow Submarine" on my MP3 list, which is (although I have paid for the album in the past) technically "illegal." (IOW...you're a thief)

I have, even today, broken the laws regulating speed limits. (A scofflaw)

More than that, I have been legally drunk while driving, reported, (potentially a killer)

shoplifted, (well, we know you're a thief).

insulted and assaulted a police officer, (violent and stupid)

bought and sold enough illicit drugs to be an amateur pharmacist...,(a drug dealer)

and other things best left unmentioned (my life has been colorful!). (Criminal - not colorful)

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Not exactly the paragon of traditional conservative social values are you? your CV reads much like that of a typical college leftie from the seventies.