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Originally posted by schrodingers dog
I share your concern in principle, but ...
Wait, are you suggesting we change the constitution to become a direct (referendum) democracy?
Originally posted by seataka
Harvey Silvergate is a moron or crook for hire
because
FACT: He willingly represented the interests of the Fraud of Scientology
See Declan McCullough's page on him LINK
Originally posted by getreadyalready
reply to post by Tiloke
Martha Stewart spent time for Perjury, not for the crime she was accused of! That is abuse of the law.
The Set-up with OJ I referred to was with him violently accosting the guys that stole his paraphenalia, not the police.
They intentionally baited and provoked him with a camera present and the intent of extorting money from him. When he acted predictably, he was the one arrested. Sure, he was guilty, but I would probably have done the same thing in his shoes!
In September 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada and charged with numerous felonies, including robbery with a deadly weapon, burglary with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon, first-degree kidnapping with use of a deadly weapon, coercion with use of a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit a crime. A jury found Simpson guilty of all charges on October 3, 2008; and he was sentenced on December 5 to at least nine years in prison. He is currently serving his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in Lovelock, Nevada.
But, since you mentioned it, why is it a crime to lie to a police officer, but it is ok for a police officer to lie to you? Not just stretch the truth, but flat out lie! Say, "We have your fingerprints" when they don't! Or say, "Your wife is writing out her confession now" when she is not!
I wish I could find the link to the Alaska story, it was not misrepresented at all! He had all the proper licenses and lab and permits, but he failed to place one sticker on a package.
Admittedly my last scenario was a made up example. It came to me as I was driving home from a Casino one night! I didn't get pulled over, but I did have a bunch of cash, no receipts proving I had one it (because I won a lot of small pots, not one big one), I had my gun, my NRA sticker, tinted windows, nice car, etc.! I was actually scared, even though I had done nothing wrong, I realized how easy it could be made to look very bad!
Originally posted by seataka
imo Harvey Silvergate is a moron or crook for hire
because
FACT: He willingly represented the interests of the Fraud of Scientology
See Declan McCullough's page on him LINK
[edit on 30-9-2009 by seataka]
[edit on 30-9-2009 by seataka]
Book description Source: The book "Three Felonies A Day".
The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.