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To: Demidog
If there is no federal law against an action or behavior, then it can't be against federal law. Likewise with state law.
You can't arrest and prosecute anybody for an act, if there is no law on the books against it. That goes for state and federal jurisdictions. Ex post facto, and all that.


So you think the Unabomber is illegally imprisoned?
193 posted on 11/18/2002 7:01:27 PM PST by wimpycat
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To: wimpycat
If there is no federal law against an action or behavior, then it can't be against federal law.

And this is supposed to prove that the federal government actually has authority to define other crimes why?

You can't arrest and prosecute anybody for an act, if there is no law on the books against it.

So you're saying that it's legal for a man in Arkansas to kill a man in Texas because there's no law preventing it?

194 posted on 11/18/2002 7:18:16 PM PST by Demidog
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