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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:07 PM

Is it not attrocious the over-regulation and -criminalization we common folk are being strangled by? Meantime the real criminals get mega-richer because their real crimes are not regulated. Meantime, someone(s) seem to be building dynasties off of micro-regulating and prosecuting small business owners over nothing at all.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/April...riminals1/
For decades, Washington has been adding to the number of federal laws and regulations that carry criminal penalties. Now the number is so high, no one is actually sure how many there are.

Experts say practically anyone could be convicted of some sort of federal crime. And it’s all too easy for anyone to violate one of these laws and never know it. One congressman tells CBN News, “We have made it dangerous just to be alive in America.”...

http://www.heritage.org/research/factshe...iminal-law
Too Many Laws, Too Little Oversight

Too Many New Laws: Federal criminal law has exploded in size and scope and deteriorated in quality. It used to focus on inherently wrongful conduct: treason, murder, counterfeiting, and the like. Today, an unimaginably broad range of socially and economically beneficial conduct is criminalized.
Unjust Punishment: More and more Americans who have worked diligently to abide by the law are being trapped and unjustly punished due to vague, overly broad criminal offenses. Congress must halt its overcriminalization rampage...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:12 PM

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/April...Criminals/
WASHINGTON -- With so many real-life and dramatic depictions of criminals on TV, even a casual observer knows a key element for a guilty conviction is the intent to commit a crime.

In the world of law, that concept is defined as "mens rea," or a guilty state of mind.

But that isn't the case with federal laws where you can be found guilty of breaking them even if you didn't intend to do anything wrong.

"The average citizen can't know all the laws out there," The Heritage Foundation's Paul Larkin told CBN News.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:14 PM

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/March...of-Felons/
WASHINGTON -- Some politicians have framed this fall's general elections in dire terms, saying if America doesn't get it right, it could be the end of freedom as we know it.

But some stories CBN News has learned about suggest freedom may already be long gone.

CBN News is launching a series of investigations into a growing phenomenon called "overcriminalization" and how it's making America a nation of criminals....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:25 PM

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/Augus...ison-Time/
Marine biologist Nancy Black is a respected authority on whales. But now she could face years in prison for breaking a broad law that bans feeding the creatures.

Black has loved whales since she was a kid. For decades, she's given whale watching tours in California's Monterey Bay, using much of the profit to pay for her own whale research so taxpayers don't have to.

"Most of the work that she's gotten and done for the government has been basically for free," her attorney, Lawrence Biegel, explained....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 98720 08-07-2012 05:26 PM

uh

nuh

check the Wild Wild West, and effects of the lack of lawful control

please be informed before you post

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:30 PM

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/July/...usinesses/
MIDDLETON, Md. -- With at least 4,500 federal laws existing today, some of the most unlikely people are finding themselves charged with crimes and breaking laws they didn't know existed.

Such is the case of two Maryland farm families who ran afoul of the "Bank Secrecy Act," which farmer Randy Sowers told CBN News he'd never heard of.

Sowers has been farming in the mid-region of Maryland for decades.

"I've been doing this for 31 years and I've put in most days 18 hours or more," he said.

Sowers decided to buck the trend of most farms these days and not work for a major agribusiness, but sell products from his South Mountain Creamery independently. ...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:36 PM

And of course there's a plan in place that will ensure there's plenty of incentive to both put all US dangerous "felons" in prison and keep us there:

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2012/May/N...or-Profit/
They're major players in corporate America. Companies operating inside a $74 billion industry.

What are they selling? Prison cells.

They contract with dozens of states and the federal government to house inmates and undocumented immigrants. The industry has been around for decades, but conditions are ripe for a major expansion.

"As states are being increasingly crunched for space, facing very strong or very large deficits, they need to find ways to reduce costs, and so this is one way that they can help solve budgetary problems," David Muhlhausen, a research fellow with the Heritage Foundation, said. ...

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:44 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

uh

nuh

check the Wild Wild West, and effects of the lack of lawful control

please be informed before you post

The problem is the lawful control is making felons out of the average Dick and Jane for "crimes" we don't even know we're committing because they are not really crimes at all, yet those making the hugest profits in our nation are doing so through activities that are not regulated and damn well sholdl be, and through huge legal profits to be made through prosecuting who can't afford to pay the costs to defend themselves.

You must be one of "them" to not see the writing on the wall here.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 05:57 PM

If y'all are taking this lightly because it's from a Christian source be aware you are separating youselves from a powerful group that has your best interests at heart in this matter. Since when does "Whoever is for us is against us" become a true statement?

We might not agree on all matters, but we'd better start putting our differences aside and start standing together on the matters we do agree on, or "We, the people of the United States" will not stand at all -- except on the inside of a prison we can't get out of and pretending we don't know how we got there.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 113262 08-07-2012 06:15 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

[C]ongressman tells CBN News, “We have made it dangerous just to be alive in America.”...

"Ignorance of the law is no defense of the law."

"Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law does not excuse" or "ignorance of the law excuses no one") is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content. In the United States, exceptions to this general rule are found in cases such as Lambert v. California (knowledge of city ordinances) and Cheek v. United States (willfulness requirement in U.S. federal tax crimes)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia...on_excusat

...................and you Dummies keep participating in the farce and "electing" your RULERS.

S977

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 08-07-2012 07:58 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
[C]ongressman tells CBN News, “We have made it dangerous just to be alive in America.”...

"Ignorance of the law is no defense of the law."

"Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law does not excuse" or "ignorance of the law excuses no one") is a legal principle holding that a person who is unaware of a law may not escape liability for violating that law merely because he or she was unaware of its content. In the United States, exceptions to this general rule are found in cases such as Lambert v. California (knowledge of city ordinances) and Cheek v. United States (willfulness requirement in U.S. federal tax crimes)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia...on_excusat

...................and you Dummies keep participating in the farce and "electing" your RULERS.

The solution will evade us until we stop looking for someone to blame. We are all screwed up (sinners) because we were screwed up by others who were screwed up by others... And we have contributed to the screwing up of others because we were screwed up ourselves. So we're all guilty.

Now that that's been established, what do We do?

Forgive, and sever ourselves from the past and, unburdoned by guilt, let's walk forward together and begin doing whatever little things come to our now freed minds turn things around. If random acts of thoughtlessness got us in this mess, random acts of thoughtfulness can get us out. We gave up the side of beef that was our Constitution little by little, let a new US begin to take it back little by little. "Who despises the day of small beginnings?"