Judge: Obviously the state laws didn't make that clear to you. Case dismissed!
Gotta love Federal Judges.
This is a tough one for me. I always hated the excuse ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Heck in my own neighborhood the cops busted up a social gathering (party) in our private community area because someone called the cops on a noise complaint at 9:30pm. They had a DJ playing.
The cops said turn it off and go home. Then a neighborhood cop acted like everyone knew the law when he told us later (different cop here) that the law is any complaint means the party has to stop. Well I looked it up and they were wrong...that little law was ruled unconstitutional by the state supreme court, so now we have a specific law that says you can make XX decibles before 11pm and YY decibles after 11pm. And you have to make 30 minutes of noise after 11pm for the cops to come out.
So the cops are enforcing fake laws and if you try to tell them they are wrong they will jack you up and now you have a bigger problem on your hands. Fact is our laws have gone crazy and we are trying to legislate way too much.
“Suspect: Gee Judge....I didn’t know it was illegal to rape and kill that girl.”
What I immediately thought of was, “Gee, judge, my daughter mailed that home from college addressed to herself, so we just put it in her room. I had no idea there was dope in it.”
This might be useful... as they are making vitamins a ‘controlled substance only available by prescription’
Any time I have told a cop that I didn’t know what the speed limit was and was unaware I was speeding, I’ve still gotten a ticket.
“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