Drowning us with laws and regulations.

The number of federal criminal statutes now measures approximately 5,000, and approximately 300,000 more criminal offenses exist amid the vast expanse of federal administrative regulations.

This is in the US. I wonder what the situation is in other countries? The article:

http://cfif.org/v/index.php/commentary/ ... nal-intent

suggests that criminal intent should be established before prosecution can be done.

It's sad commentary that the current state of affairs demands legislation to require the government to actually charge criminal intent before subjecting someone to criminal prosecution. It's even sadder that the Obama Administration and its apologists would stubbornly oppose such reform.

The worst violation is the forfeiture laws. When the ACLU, Heritage foundation, the Wall Street Journal and just about every single rights organization on EITHER SIDE of the political spectrum agree, you know it stinks to high heaven.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-la ... ture-abuse

http://www.heritage.org/research/report ... hould-know

http://www.wsj.com/articles/asset-forfe ... 1435868428

biochem wrote:The worst violation is the forfeiture laws. When the ACLU, Heritage foundation, the Wall Street Journal and just about every single rights organization on EITHER SIDE of the political spectrum agree, you know it stinks to high heaven.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-la ... ture-abuse

http://www.heritage.org/research/report ... hould-know

http://www.wsj.com/articles/asset-forfe ... 1435868428

Amen, brother - preach it

If what I read is correct, in 2014, the forfeiture laws took more than the burglars did.

As to what they spend it for on the Federal level:

http://townhall.com/columnists/stephenm ... sletterad=

And also:

http://townhall.com/columnists/calthoma ... sletterad=

biochem wrote:The worst violation is the forfeiture laws. When the ACLU, Heritage foundation, the Wall Street Journal and just about every single rights organization on EITHER SIDE of the political spectrum agree, you know it stinks to high heaven.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/criminal-la ... ture-abuse

http://www.heritage.org/research/report ... hould-know

http://www.wsj.com/articles/asset-forfe ... 1435868428

Well you can mainly thank the war and drugs and the "Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984" for the out of control levels it's been at the last several decades... one of the areas of stupidity where both parties were equally complicit (this one passed both the House and Senate with large majority votes from both parties)

Although at least one of those parties seems to be slowly waking up on it finally.