“Let’s face it folks — we’re all criminals now.”
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Absolutely, it has been many, many years and I wouldn’t even guess as to how many years since it has been humanly possible to be a “law-abiding American citizen”. My father died in 1995 and a few years before his death he made a casual comment to me about how some group of criminals should be punished more severely. I asked my Dad if he realized that if all of us who broke a law were to be caught, convicted and punished that there would be no one left outside the jails to bring us food and water. He thought I was exaggerating but I was not. If it were possible for every lawbreaker to be caught, convicted and sentenced the last judge would need to sentence himself and lock his own prison cell on himself.
My late father had never been audited by the IRS. He wrote a respectful letter to Bill Clinton criticizing certain policies. He was audited the next two years.
Call me suspicious.