56 New Federal Crimes Created Per Year!

56 New Federal Crimes Created Per Year!; Insanity
Topic Started: Jul 8 2008, 04:34 PM (15 Views)
Bruce	Jul 8 2008, 04:34 PM Post #1
Administrator Posts: 21 Group: Admins Member #2 Joined: Jun 26, 2008	According to a recent report from the Heritage Foundation, the federal government alone has been creating about 56 new federal crimes per year, which means that on an average of more than once per week, some new act becomes a federal offense. For more about that, see http://www.wxpnews.com/LEC13C/080708-Federal-Offences There are at least 4,450 offenses in federal criminal law. There is little doubt you've broken a few. Perhaps they should just lock us all in Federal Prison.... And that doesn't include all the new crimes created by State and Local Governments! When you go to the bathroom be careful how you wipe....It may be illegal!



Bruce	Jul 8 2008, 04:41 PM Post #2
Administrator Posts: 21 Group: Admins Member #2 Joined: Jun 26, 2008	An Alaskan inventor who never had so much as a traffic ticket was arrested, indicted and prosecuted by the feds because he failed to put the right sticker on a UPS package. He had no idea the sticker was required, and everything else about his shipment was perfectly legal. But after being arrested and handcuffed, face-down on the pavement, by a half-dozen SWAT-team officers aiming assault rifles at him, he’s now spending almost two years in federal prison. Fisherman David McNab, a seafood importer, and a seafood distributor are serving eight-year sentences in three U.S. prisons because McNab packed his catch in a manner that allegedly violated a Honduran regulation. It made no difference to the American courts that the highest officials of the Honduran government certified that McNab had, in fact, violated no Honduran law. And a recent federal prosecution suggests that anyone who violates the rules of an online social networking site, such as MySpace or Facebook, by registering with a false name could spend up to five years in federal prison.



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