It’s interesting you should mention the proliferation of felonies threatening to make the common man a felon; I finished “Three Felonies a Day” about a month/month-and-a-half ago and it is a stark warning about how the laws are a) being poorly written, b) being “rewritten” by government agencies [ie, the IRS can change a regulation/rule and *BANG* lots of tax-preparers are felons!] and c) being misapplied even contrary to what the normal meaning of the words are.
It is a fact that the United States of America could cease to become a Republic with just a few words: the congress passing a law which makes everyone felons, then no citizen can vote... or ‘legally’ own guns. Further, when you point out a blatant violation of the law to those in authority you are met with nothing but excuses and rationalizations. This is frightening to contemplate, but it seems like the law only applies “when they want it to.” {’They’ being those in power/authority.}
Just yesterday I pointed out to a sheriff that there is several state law violations of our state constitution, which prohibits the abridgment of the right of the Citizen to keep and bear arms... yet there is a state law that prohibits guns on campus. His argument was that the restriction of firearms in certain places was not an abridgment of the right to keep and *bear* arms and cited the CITY AND COUNTY COURTHOUSES! {This is particularly egregious because the second sentence in my State’s Constitution, which I showed him, reads: “No county or municipality shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”}
According to that theory of Jurisprudence it would be insanely easy to get around the following (also from the State constitution):
Sec. 11. [Freedom of religion.]
Every man shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no person shall ever be molested or denied any civil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinion or mode of religious worship. No person shall be required to attend any place of worship
or support any religious sect or denomination; nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
What you do is pass a law requiring all Jews (or Christians, or Muslims, or any other religious type) to wear [say] six-pointed stars on their clothes.
Then, pass a law stating that no person wearing a six-pointed star may vote.
I choose that example because it DOES hit people’s emotional nerves. But look at the rejection of logic here too! Many a child knows that if A means B, and B means C, then A means C! (Yet here we have this dismissed out of hand?) *BLAGHHHHHHH!*
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Excellent post.
I wanted to add something to your post. Lautenberg’s Ammendment, I think is an excellent example of laws being re-written. Not only can felons not own guns, people who were NEVER felons, and who had paid for their crimes, were retro-actively denied a God given human right, to keep and bear arms. Felons should not even be denied the right to bare arms after their sentences are served, as was the case until only very recently in the life of our country.
While guns rights are only a simple example, they show a trend. The right to bear arms was not to be infringed. Then felons on parole, etc., could not own arms (albeit in the older days, felons-—which was far more rare, and for a far more grievious “crime” than these days—would have less access to guns, as they would have been incarcerated). Next came past felons not being able to own guns. And now anyone arrested for “Domestic Violence” (Yelling can count in some states), are barred from owning guns.
The trend isn’t just going to be with guns. Take taxes, for example. Once upon a time, we paid taxes once a year. Then taxes somehow got to be taken quarterly, then taken from us in every paycheck. Then we are penalized if we underpay before the end-of-the-year reconcilliation (April 15th), then people were penalized for overpaying.
It is a crime for so many things, that people cannot comprehend the thousands of laws on the book in their own states, let alone the federal goverment, which could make them felons everyday. And with this, police are being indoctrinated by unions that they are better than we are, and that it’s police vs. civilians, and to watch out for one another, and “never be a rat.”
I have a feeling that Obama’s “Civilian Defense Force” will slide in without a whimper from the public, based on the craftiness so far. People need to wake up, and they need to do it NOW.
Is “Three Felonies a Day” in print now? I’m going to try and look for it, it sounds interesting to me.
One of the best video’s ever made. The facts found starting at the 11:50 mark are very telling. Our right to remain silent is for the protection of the INNOCENT, FROM “law enforcement,” NOT the guilty.
“Don’t Talk to Cops, Part 1”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8z7NC5sgik