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Mississippi Imprisons More People Than Russia and China Combined

AuburnGrad said:
Got an example of what you think is a lousy law, or are you leaving that to our imaginations too?
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You're kidding?

18 USC 1341, 43 and 46. Mail, wire and honest services fraud. Most any statute that deals with conspiracy. All of those are vague to the point that prosecutors can and do bend them completely out of shape to obtain convictions for what is otherwise probably legal activity - or at least activity that a person wouldn't have normally realized was illegal. You can, and people have, written books on bad law. Those will do for starters.
 
AuburnGrad said:
Got an example of what you think is a lousy law, or are you leaving that to our imaginations too?
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Here are a few:

- Women may not drive in a house coat.
- You may only throw a frisbee at the beach in Los Angeles County, CA with the lifeguard’s permission.
- Illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
- If a child burps during church, his parent may be arrested.

Dumb Laws in Nebraska. Crazy Nebraska Laws. We have weird laws, strange laws, and just plain crazy laws!
 
Gaius46 said:
You're kidding?

18 USC 1341, 43 and 46. Mail, wire and honest services fraud. Most any statute that deals with conspiracy. All of those are vague to the point that prosecutors can and do bend them completely out of shape to obtain convictions for what is otherwise probably legal activity - or at least activity that a person wouldn't have normally realized was illegal. You can, and people have, written books on bad law. Those will do for starters.
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I am sure we are all at risk for violating that law at any minute.
 
AuburnGrad said:
I am sure we are all at risk for violating that law at any minute.
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You asked for bad laws. There are three - at least three that are easily abused.

There are literally thousands of laws and administrative rules that you are obliged to obey. You probably unknowingly some of them on a regular basis.
 
AuburnGrad said:
No, they do not and you simply ignoring that does not make it true.
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Actually, yes, they do, and I gave a link showing what their salaries are.

All you've done is to post unsupported opinions.

My formula for the value of an opinion is"

V = 0 F^2, where V is the value of an opinion, F is the number of facts supporting it, and O is the opinion itself. Multiply by zero squared, mr. "math teacher", and you'll get the value of your or any other unsupported opinion.
 
LagerHead said:
I fully understand the difference in pure numbers and per capita numbers. Do we really need to go through the per capita numbers of folks who were murdered by the Russian and Chinese governments for you to get the point?
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Sorry, I did not realize you were talking about people murdered by government. I thought we were talking about people imprisoned by government.

You could have made your point a bit clearer...
 
AuburnGrad said:
Got an example of what you think is a lousy law, or are you leaving that to our imaginations too?
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Any given legislature passes more lousy laws than it does pass good laws. That's why we have the repeal mechanism, though it is seldom used, but I digress.

Not only lousy, but illegitimate, the NDAA Amendment, the USA Patriot Act, and not last and not least, our pernicious drug prohibition, closely related to the thread subject.
 
AuburnGrad said:
No, they do not and you simply ignoring that does not make it true.
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Oh... the IRONY is rich with this one... :lol:

I am not sure that I have been ignored by a person over such a trivial matter before. :lol:
 
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