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To: Tenacious 1
I have only one problem with this...the cheapening of the term “felony”.

See, my dad had a particular way of disposing of used motor oil that he practiced from his youth on a farm in the 1940s to my own childhood in the 70’s. If you do what he did, you're a felon.

There are many “felonies” today that were not crimes at all just a few years ago. It is likely that the list of felonies grew just at the past new year.

If you want to get specific about only certain felonies— those involving violence or the credible threat of violence, for instance—

—or—

If you want to roll back the definition of “felony” to encompass only those things—

—I'll be right there with you.

23 posted on 01/16/2013 12:11:23 PM PST by ExGeeEye (I'll give y'all 90 days for the wounds to heal; then we start on 2014. Carpe GOP!)
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To: ExGeeEye
I could have been more obvious about my cynicism I suppose.

To be clear, I believe our federal government continues to make regulations to legislation that makes abiding by the law confusing at best and impossible at worst. They are making us all criminals subject to judicial enforcement in the future. Today, they are not even doing it through legislation. Today our president can use executive orders and his cabinet members can “write up the details and regulations” for laws that passed legislation. Nothing at the Supreme Court can be trusted.

So my fantasifical epilogue was to highlight how the liberal agenda continues to advance, impeding and infringing on our inalienable rights.

26 posted on 01/16/2013 12:30:47 PM PST by Tenacious 1 ("The Brittish are Coming (to confiscate weapons)" - Paul Revere (We know how that ended))
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