Daily Bell: Are we really all criminals now in the eyes of our governments? Why? Nick: Yes, I believe that is the case. If you just imagine all of the laws, all of the regulations that Americans are subjected to, everyone really is a criminal because everyone is always breaking some law or rule. There’s probably no better place to understand this than a book called Three Felonies a Day, whose author did a study that shows that the average American inadvertently commits three felonies a day just because there are so many laws and they can be interpreted so broadly that even the most mundane activities have been criminalized. The situation amounts to prosecutorial discretion, meaning they can pin anything on anybody if they really wanted to. This is because if you look at it right now, there are thousands of federal laws; when the US was founded, there were only three federal laws on the books—treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Now there are thousands of them. internationalman/articles/fatca-gatca-and-the-changing-investment-scene
Posted on: Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:58:28 +0000
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