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Nope, I don't do any of that stuff.
While I understand the idea that things CAN or MAY be "arugued" to mean this or that the reality is that even the link couldn't find any for some of those gotchas. Plus this is just way to reminicent of the"Are you a good person?" razzledazzle that ignorant christains try to use on people to convert them.
Huh? What does religion have to do with this?
I am highlighting the website and the book because our federal government has overstepped it's bounds and is targetting innocent people by loosely reading laws that aren't construed specifically enough to keep many people from needing to read this book:
Any judge that throws a woman in jail for 2 years for importing lobsters in plastic bags, deserves to be dragged out of his or her home and shot once in the head.
Any lesser reaction is accepting a corrupt system provided it doesn't slam the hammer on you.
Btw, I can't understand your point afterwards. Clare to make it clearer?
Any judge that throws a woman in jail for 2 years for importing lobsters in plastic bags, deserves to be dragged out of his or her home and shot once in the head.
Any lesser reaction is accepting a corrupt system provided it doesn't slam the hammer on you.
Btw, I can't understand your point afterwards. Clare to make it clearer?
Yep - and notice that the woman in that case was convicted of violating foriegn law - specifically a Honduran law.
What is to stop states or the federal government from enacting Sharia law all over the expanse of our republic?
Yep - and notice that the woman in that case was convicted of violating foriegn law - specifically a Honduran law.
What is to stop states or the federal government from enacting Sharia law all over the expanse of our republic?
A honduran law that was outdated at the time of her arrest. The Fed government just wants to arrest you for whatever reason. They will use any excuse. Any technicality.
I'm literally angry after reading that. I can't understand how any American can react like the way she did.
Federal employees have too much time on their hands.
Six months after sending them to the cooler, NMFS agents finally began to inspect the locked-up lobster tails. Only about three percent of the lobster tails turned out to be less than 5.5 inches long. Just seven percent showed any evidence of having been egg-bearing lobsters. These small amounts belie the suggestion that McNab or his employees were intentionally harvesting young or egg-bearing lobsters. Nevertheless, prosecutors included these regulations as predicates for alleged violations of the Lacey Act.
Charges based on the size and egg-harvesting regulations would only allow NMFS to seize the small portions of lobster tails that were under 5.5 inches or showed evidence of bearing eggs. This, apparently, was not enough. Because all the lobsters were in clear plastic bags instead of cardboard boxes, the government declared the entire shipment illegal and formally seized all 70,000 pounds of lobster tails.
Government prosecutors, not satisfied even with 35 tons of lobster, filed criminal charges against McNab. The also charged three American businesspeople who frequently purchased and distributed lobster tails from McNab. All charges against McNab and most charges against the others were predicated on the three Honduran regulations, applied through the Lacey Act. No charges were ever brought against the defendants in Honduras. The alleged Lacey Act violations served primarily to trigger more serious charges. If importing the lobster in bags instead of boxes was illegal, prosecutors reasoned, then planning to import it was criminal conspiracy, the actual importation was smuggling, and payments became felony money laundering.
A honduran law that was outdated at the time of her arrest. The Fed government just wants to arrest you for whatever reason. They will use any excuse. Any technicality.
I'm literally angry after reading that. I can't understand how any American can react like the way she did.
I hope that more people do become angry - the Obama administration is prosecuting the war on drugs and driving up the federal prison population.
The GAO reported that 48% of federal prisoners were drug offenders last year, and that the average sentence length for federal drug prisoners is now 2 ½ times longer than before federal anti-drug legislation passed in the mid-1980s
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The federal prison population increased 9.5% from Fiscal Year 2006 through FY 2011, exceeding a 7% increase in rated capacity.
It is time to end the drug war. Obama supporters are remiss in not highlighting the president's expansion of the misguided and disastrous drug war.
Let's send the White House a message and tell them that "we are mad as hell, and won't take it anymore!"
It is time to end the drug war. Obama supporters are remiss in not highlighting the president's expansion of the misguided and disastrous drug war.
Let's send the White House a message and tell them that "we are mad as hell, and won't take it anymore!"
I agree, but Obama has been cutting down on drug prosecutions though.
"Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. directed federal prosecutors Monday to back away from pursuing cases against medical marijuana patients, signaling a broad policy shift that drug reform advocates interpret as the first step toward legalization of the drug."
Whole lot of "arguably's" "could be's" and "might be's" in all those examples.
I love this one:
"Philip Russell, a lawyer from Greenwich, Connecticut, was indicted in 2007 for obstruction of justice. A church had contacted this well-respected attorney when it found images of child pornography on an employee’s computer. Russell knew that child porn is illegal even to possess (“contraband”) and that holding, rather than destroying it, arguably would be criminal. He decided to destroy the images in the best interest of his client. He didn’t know that the government had launched an investigation of the church employee just days before. For this, he was charged with obstruction of justice, and eventually pleaded to a lesser crime in an agreement with prosecutors. With this same logic, prosecutors could indict parents that choose to destroy—rather than report to officials—narcotics that they find in the possession of their son or daughter."
Well boys and girls, poor Mr. Russell is a lawyer, and as such is a freaking officer of the court with a DUTY to preserve evidence! So no it isn't the "same logic" as a parent destroying narcotics found in their kids drawer?
If you can't get this right, its hard to take the rest of this crap seriously.
By the way, I had a crappy day waiting for a phone call that never came, so I have to commit at least six felonies tomorrow to get my average back up.
I didn't see any examples of "felonies" that I might commit. Maybe if I read thru the comments, but I don't care enough to do that past page 1. Sorry, I don't think I DO commit felonies but whatever, if I do so be it.
I am like you but older so I don't stray from the house for any extended time. I don't think I commit that many felonies daily but failed to read any further than you did.
I have never hear that aver4age american is inicted on three felonies a day.Pure non-sense ebcause that is what it take tyo even designated a potiential crime that needs to be decided on by a jury or judge.
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