nbruno322
06-25-2014, 10:30 AM
Interesting interview...
Daily Bell: Are we really all criminals now in the eyes of our governments? Why?
Nick: Yes, I believe that is the case. If you just imagine all of the laws, all of the regulations that Americans are subjected to, everyone really is a criminal because everyone is always breaking some law or rule. There’s probably no better place to understand this than a book called Three Felonies a Day, whose author did a study that shows that the average American inadvertently commits three felonies a day just because there are so many laws and they can be interpreted so broadly that even the most mundane activities have been criminalized. The situation amounts to prosecutorial discretion, meaning they can pin anything on anybody if they really wanted to. This is because if you look at it right now, there are thousands of federal laws; when the US was founded, there were only three federal laws on the books—treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Now there are thousands of them.
And we haven’t even mentioned the nearly 74,000 pages of the US Tax Code. Does anybody really understand it all, and is anybody ever 100% compliant with everything? That’s why we are all criminals now. Not in the real sense of the word, not in the sense of committing aggression against another person or their property, but in the sense of breaking the edicts of the bureaucrats, many if not most of which amount to so-called victimless crimes....
I think when you consider the totality of the drug war—the police state that comes with it, the jailing of people for victimless crimes, the loss of civil liberties, all the money wasted and lives ruined—I think you can correctly call the war on drugs a crime against humanity.
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http://www.internationalman.com/articles/fatca-gatca-and-the-changing-investment-scene
Daily Bell: Are we really all criminals now in the eyes of our governments? Why?
Nick: Yes, I believe that is the case. If you just imagine all of the laws, all of the regulations that Americans are subjected to, everyone really is a criminal because everyone is always breaking some law or rule. There’s probably no better place to understand this than a book called Three Felonies a Day, whose author did a study that shows that the average American inadvertently commits three felonies a day just because there are so many laws and they can be interpreted so broadly that even the most mundane activities have been criminalized. The situation amounts to prosecutorial discretion, meaning they can pin anything on anybody if they really wanted to. This is because if you look at it right now, there are thousands of federal laws; when the US was founded, there were only three federal laws on the books—treason, piracy, and counterfeiting. Now there are thousands of them.
And we haven’t even mentioned the nearly 74,000 pages of the US Tax Code. Does anybody really understand it all, and is anybody ever 100% compliant with everything? That’s why we are all criminals now. Not in the real sense of the word, not in the sense of committing aggression against another person or their property, but in the sense of breaking the edicts of the bureaucrats, many if not most of which amount to so-called victimless crimes....
I think when you consider the totality of the drug war—the police state that comes with it, the jailing of people for victimless crimes, the loss of civil liberties, all the money wasted and lives ruined—I think you can correctly call the war on drugs a crime against humanity.
continued
http://www.internationalman.com/articles/fatca-gatca-and-the-changing-investment-scene