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To: E. Pluribus Unum
"The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government." --Tacitus

There are already so many federal laws that the average person commits three federal felonies a day.

And that the only thing it's meant to do, the law will be almost universally ignored, as the current wildlife laws are, I know people locally that have pet raccoons and possums and they have been illegal for ages, but West Virginia is a very rural state and they know their chances of ever getting caught or prosecuted are to the south side of slim and none. It will be the same with this law, even more so, but it gives the state another tool to go after citizens that they want to target, now they fine you because your kid unknowingly happens to have a rare breed of guinea pig or a neon tetra in the fish tank....

10 posted on 07/17/2014 12:21:20 PM PDT by apillar
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To: apillar

The way things are supposed to work in an honest system is that when it becomes apparent that a crime has been committed law enforcement people seek out the criminal who commited it. In a DIShonest system which is the type we now have, it is more likely that a person will attract the wrong kind of attention because of something he did or said that some person in law enforcement does not like and then his every move will be scrutinized until he does something to justify his being arrested and imprisoned. With so many laws that no one can possibly be aware of all of them it doesn’t take long to find a reason to arrest a person. Attorneys have to specialize because the law is far too complicated for someone who makes a career of knowing the law to possibly be competent except in one small subdivision of the law. What chance do the rest of us have?


37 posted on 08/30/2014 6:31:18 PM PDT by RipSawyer (OPM is the religion of the sheeple.)
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