From: stephen@sprunk.org
On 04-Aug-14 17:17, Peter Schleifer wrote:
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> On 04-Aug-14 09:18, Adam H. Kerman wrote:
>>> I can't help but think that there wasn't a police intelligence
>>> unit following and monitoring the guy who made the video, hoping
>>> to catch him in a crime.
>>
>> Follow anyone long enough and you'll catch them doing something.
>
> If I thought I were being watched, I wouldn't be carrying a gun in a
> known drug area, but that's not something I do normally in any case.
*shrug* For some of us, that's perfectly legal.
There are now so many laws, most of which are so rarely enforced that
most people don't even realize they exist, that it's nearly impossible
to avoid breaking _any_ law for more than a few hours at a time.
Of course, this directly leads to discriminatory enforcement: cops
decide someone is guilty, e.g. because they have the wrong skin color,
and then watch to see what crimes to charge them with. The canonical
example is Al Capone: they spent years finding a crime they could
convict him for--and we have orders of magnitude more laws to choose
from now than they did way back then.
>> Back in 1995, Congress accidentally made all animals (including
>> humans) and most plants illegal, so if all else fails, nail them
>> with that.
>
> What's that? Did they make mitochondria a controlled substance?
Close; they outlawed GHB, a naturally-occurring hormone. It's illegal
to possess even trace amounts of it (even in your own body, without
which you'll die), but you're looking at _decades_ in federal prison
plus registering as a sex offender for life if you "distribute" it to
someone else without their knowledge, e.g. serving a family meal.
S
--
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
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