The Overcriminalization of America: Are We All Criminals Now?
Many Americans through their own compliance have become unwitting accomplices in the government’s efforts to prosecute otherwise law-abiding citizens for unknowingly violating some statute in its vast trove of laws written by bureaucrats who operate above the law.
Incredibly, Congress has been creating on average 55 new “crimes” per year, bringing the total number of federal crimes on the books to more than 5,000, with as many as 300,000 regulatory crimes.
Phi Beta Iota: Out of control. And it will remain out of control until #UNRIG is implemented combined with local assertion of local powers (sheriffs can block state and federal authority with ease — they simply have to want to do so).
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