[eyeamok]

There are only 3 Crimes Authorized by the Constitution at the Federal Level, Do you know them???

[cripplecreek]

Kind of like dragging pro baseball players into congressional hearings and treating them like criminals over something that should be handled by the MLB.

[Shermy]

“Unknowing technical violations”

Tell that to Lawrence Taylor!

[PGalt]

Good idea. In a totalitarian regime there are enough (murky) laws (say in a Department of Homeland Security...just sayin’) to make everyone a criminal. It’s just a matter of selective persecution to get rid of the perceived undesireable threats to the totalitarians. I’m thinking of Kafka’s Joseph K in “The Trial”.

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of totalitarians.

[hinckley buzzard]

Good luck. Don't these fossils realize that the intention of the Leftwing assholes ruling the apparatus is to make it so hard to conduct business without violating a law somewhere, that any person, as needed, can be arrested and brought up on "charges?"

I think Meese and Thornburg are good enough guys, but obviously they are fatally behind the curve.

[diogenes ghost]

Well, it’s a nice start, but there needs to be more oversight of those who run afoul of insane regulatory penalties. Many of these are written by nameless beaurocrats, not Congress.

[Loyal Sedition]

A noble idea and probably a good start.
It’s WAAAAAY past time to break the power of unelected bureaucrats to create “law”!

Congress has not been much better when they deign to actually get their hands dirty either.

I suspect the only practical way to handle this is to limit congress time is session, maybe no more than twenty weeks a year.
The rest of the time they are required to spend actually in their own district, available to their constituents.

The other necessary item is to prevent congress continuing to delegate the authority to create “law”, rulings, determinations, or any other excuse for fining or imprisoning the American public.

Eliminate the alphabet agencies ability to write their own regs!
EPA, DOT, BATFE (ATF), HHS, DOJ, ALL of them!

[expatpat]

After over-criminalizing, the next step is selective prosecution so that any one in non-protected groups (e.g., white males) can be prosecuted for something ant any time. We already see this happening in Holder’s InJustice Dept. (voter intimidation), hate-crime legislation, and the criminal justice systems in large cities.

[AndrewB]

"There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."-Rand

[Verginius Rufus]

Some time ago I saw a program on C-SPAN featuring Harvey A. Silverglade, author of the book Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. (ISBN 978-1594032554).

I haven't read the book but from the program it sounds like it is very much along the lines of what this thread is discussing.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws"

. Ayn Rand

[prolusion]

All laws should sunset. Make Congress debate them periodically. Bury them with work load. Should cut down on excessive laws some.