A study was done, every person in the US commits 3 felonies a day without knowing it. Even one of the Supremes recently commented our laws are too numerous and complex.
The preamble to the book by Harvey Silvergate:
The average [person] 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.
Thankfully the recent SJC decision in the so called Chevron defense case should put a big Big BIG monkey wrench in the wheels of governmental flim flammery which has allowed unelected bureaucrats to make whatever law they think is THEIR best interest while screwing over citizens.
So, I think the meme is covered.
Every.
Friggin’.
Day.
Every single day, whether I try or not.
This should be the goal of every citizen, if they be worthy of that description.
A study was done, every person in the US commits 3 felonies a day without knowing it. Even one of the Supremes recently commented our laws are too numerous and complex.
The preamble to the book by Harvey Silvergate:
The average [person] 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.
Thankfully the recent SJC decision in the so called Chevron defense case should put a big Big BIG monkey wrench in the wheels of governmental flim flammery which has allowed unelected bureaucrats to make whatever law they think is THEIR best interest while screwing over citizens.
So, I think the meme is covered.
Every.
Friggin’.
Day.
Every single day, whether I try or not.
This should be the goal of every citizen, if they be worthy of that description.