A woman with an extensive criminal history steals a firearm and a vehicle. When apprehended by police, she escapes and fires three shots at the officers, who return fire, killing her.
The woman’s family blames police for “killing another black person.” Says her mother:
She might have stole a car here or there, she was a wild child. She didn’t do nuthin that would deserve her to be dead.
Ignorance of the law, the judges and cops are fond of saying, is no excuse. In 1925, this is what a complete copy of all Federal laws looked like:
That one volume represents all of the laws that were passed by Congress in the first 150 years of this country’s existence. That Federal Law library has now expanded immensely.
What was one volume in 1925 expanded to become 22 volumes just 90 years later. That isn’t all, though. There is also the United States Code:
The number of federal crimes you could commit as of 2007 (the last year they were tallied) was about 4,450, a 50% increase since just 1980. A comparative handful of those crimes are “malum in se”—bad in themselves, which include things like rape, murder, or theft. The rest are “malum prohibitum”—crimes because the government disapproves, such as owning a machine gun made after 1986, when owning one made in 1985 is perfectly legal.
In 1982, the Justice Department tried to determine the total number of criminal laws. In a project that lasted two years, the Department compiled a list of approximately 3,000 criminal offenses. This effort, headed by Ronald Gainer, a Justice Department official, is considered the most exhaustive attempt to count the number of federal criminal laws. In a Wall Street Journal article about this project, “this effort came as part of a long and ultimately failed campaign to persuade Congress to revise the criminal code, which by the 1980s was scattered among 50 titles and 23,000 pages of federal law.” Or as Mr. Gainer characterized this fruitless project: “[y]ou will have died and [been] resurrected three times,” and still not have an answer to this question.
So you see, even the Justice Department of the US government is not sure of how many laws there are, yet each and every one of us is responsible for knowing every one of them, along with the court cases that modify and define them, upon penalty of prison.
That isn’t all. Congress isn’t the only body that passes laws. There are also several dozen Federal bureaus, who have had the power to write laws since 1940. The laws that they write are called regulations, and they are found in the Code of Federal Regulations:
The laws passed by Congress are just the beginning. In 2013, the Code of Federal Regulations numbered over 175,000 pages. Only a fraction of those pages involved regulations based on something spelled out in legislation. If a regulatory agency comes after you, forget about juries, proof of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, disinterested judges and other rights that are part of due process in ordinary courts. The “administrative courts” through which the regulatory agencies impose their will are run by the regulatory agencies themselves, much as if the police department could make up its own laws and then employ its own prosecutors, judges and courts of appeals.
The result of all of this is that each and every one of us is responsible for reading, understanding and following over 750,000 pages of laws, regulations, and court decisions- with complete understanding. If one were to begin studying these laws at age 12, and you read 50 pages per day, by age 53, you would have read all of them. The only problem is that, at the current rate, the government would have added another 500,000 pages of laws, and 28 years of reading to your quest.
Remember, though: Ignorance of the law is no excuse. If you are spraying insect killer on some ants, and the can label says spray from 6 inches away, and you spray from 8 inches, you are a Federal criminal. If you are buying a gun, and you live in Florida, you had better use the abbreviation of FL as your address, because using the old abbreviation of FLA is a felony and can land you in prison.
Why is this happening? Ayn Rand gives us an insight into this:
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.
Truer words were never spoken.
There is a tool set that has a hammer drill, circular saw, jig saw, table saw, drill press, scroll saw, and a hand light. It is battery powered with an 18V battery with a 1 hour charge time, but can also run off of standard 120V wall outlets. Two batteries are included as part of the set.
Three days ago, I posted about communist agitators who were sponsoring and coordinating the protests in Ferguson, New York, Baltimore, and other places. These professional agitators are being sponsored, led, and funded by a person or persons that are unknown. Their stated goal is the overthrow of the US government.
Today, there comes disturbing news that the police in Baltimore were ordered to “stand down” and allow the riots to get worse and become more violent. The story has been corroborated by the Daily Mail.
This isn’t the first time that this has happened. Back in November, the National Guard was told to stand down by the Missouri Governor. This allowed the riots to get worse. Not only that, but police in Ferguson were apparently ordered to back off and allow the riots in August to become worse.
The question that I ask about all of this:
Why are the police being ordered to allow protests and riots to become ever more violent? Where are these marching orders coming from?
The protesters are obviously being coordinated on a national scale, and now it seems like the police departments’ orders are making things worse. Are the two related?
A person may accuse me of being a conspiracy theorist, but the fact that the protesters are being coordinated on a national level is, by definition, a conspiracy. The question here is, is our government complicit in the level of violence? If so, who is issuing these orders, and why?
Here is what we know:
– It is fairly obvious that the protesters are being coordinated to stage violent uprisings on a national level.
– The stated purpose of the organizations that are sponsoring the agitators is the overthrow of the US government.
– The police and National Guard have been ordered to stand down in at least two different states. As a result of this stand down, the uprisings were more violent and destructive, and lasted longer than they otherwise would have.
Whatever the purpose is behind this, whoever is ordering this, the implications are frightening.
Hat tip to the Bayou Renaissance Man
The Walt Disney company has been accused of laying off employees, and contracting out their work to companies that hire foreign workers for a fraction of the cost.
Look at this picture of the riots in Baltimore:
The sign there is made by the “Peoples Power Assembly.” Just who are they? Well, according to their Facebook page, they are supporters of the World Workers Party, which is a Communist Organization.
This is what the PPA has to say:
It is time for us to make it very clear that things are only going to get worse. And the only way we can stop things from getting worse — the only way we can win a society that we dream for, not only for ourselves, but for our children and our grandchildren and the children that we don’t know, not only here but around the world — is to overthrow this brutal system.
Their stated goal is to overthrow the government and replace it with…
There is a dual crisis at play. One aspect is the crisis of the economic system, which is global. More than merely a crisis of the financial markets, it is of the system of capitalism itself.
Here is a pamphlet (pdf) for one of their conferences:
With all of these riots, the people of those cities keep claiming that the people who live there are not the ones who are rioting. They claim that ‘outsiders’ are showing up to these cities after a police shooting, and they are deliberately agitating and causing trouble. Not one person has decided to investigate who these agitators are, where they get their funding, or who is organizing them.
There is revcom.ushttp://revcom.us/ – which is the source of many of the posters in the protests. What is that site? It is the official site of the Communist Party of the US, and the site is advocating for revolution and overthrow of the US government.
These people are Communist agitators. They are engaging in a Nationwide push to overthrow the Government. What I want to know is where and from whom are they receiving funding.
This movement is well organized and well funded. The same professionally made posters appearing in protest after protest.
Seattle:
New York City:
Ferguson:
I know that this has been the subject of many fiction stories, but countless dictators have used civil unrest such as this as an excuse to suspend civil rights and assume total power…
Either way, there is certainly more to this than meets the eye.
President Obama makes an incredibly racist speech at the White House Press dinner, and then the White House posts it to its Facebook page.
Have you met Luther, President Obama’s anger translator? #WHCD #KeyAndPeele
Posted by The White House on Saturday, April 25, 2015
One of the first lines in the speech is “Hold on to your lilly white butts.”
Can you imagine a Republican saying “Hold on to your black ass” in an official speech? He would be crucified.
Then there are statements about Fox News scaring old, white people.
After that, I couldn’t watch any more. The press pretty much lets this guy do as he pleases without questioning it.
So the State of Florida recently had a two day event called “Operation Green Light.” What this event was, was all of the offices for the state’s county clerks would waive the collection fees for people who had old traffic tickets whose fines had been sent to collection agencies. Watch the report here.
Orange county alone has 400,000 unpaid traffic tickets, which they claim is millions missing from the county’s budget. Did you get that? Counties admit that traffic tickets are about getting more money. The police departments’ primary mission is bringing money into the county coffers, not preventing crime or catching lawbreakers.
I am one of the people who is in collections for an old ticket. I got a speeding ticket in Melbourne in 2001, 14 years ago. I went to the clerk’s office when I got the ticket and paid the fine. Ten years later, I got a letter from a collection agency, claiming that I had underpaid my fine by $45.50. I sent them a letter, telling them that I had paid the fine that I was told to pay at the time, and the fact that the clerk miscalculated the fine when I paid it was not my problem, as I had a receipt.
They responded by saying that fines from a government agency are not subject to the statute of limitations, nor are they subject to the Federal Laws on Collecting debts. They can continue to hound me about it until the end of time. What I DID discover, however, is that they cannot suspend my license, nor can they place it on my credit bureau reports. I sent them a letter telling them that I was not going to pay it, and that there was nothing that they could legally do to force me to do so.
In other words, all they can do is continue to send me letters every month, which they have done since the summer of 2012. In other words, they have spent more in postage trying to collect this fine than the amount of the fine would net them.
This is why government is so wasteful: they just don’t understand money. Even with armed collection agents that can force you to participate, the ability to force you to pay or go to jail, and exceptions to the law that allow them to abuse the system, they still can’t make money.
Did you know that a child who is diagnosed with things like ADD can get special privileges in school like extra study guides, extended time on tests, and other perks, but that the student’s school transcripts and diplomas will not reflect that fact? Did you know that schools are paid more for having these students under their care? For instance, New York State spends an average of $14,413 per year more to educate a disabled student than a regular-enrollment student.
There are students who actually need these things, but as you can imagine, there are schools and parents that will take advantage of this system. The benefit to the school is increased funding, and the benefit to the student is a slanted playing field.
There are even schools that children attend that allow them to ride horses as a part of their “therapy.” A large number of disabled students and their clever parents, critics allege, have managed to get public schools to pay for attendance at expensive private schools like the one just mentioned. The San Francisco Chronicle describes the case of a student with learning disabilities and an anxiety disorder whose parents “enrolled him in a $30,000-a-year prep school in Maine—then sent the bill to their local public school district.”
In the last three decades, special-education programs in the United States have grown at a tremendous pace. Much of this growth reflects a growing incidence of students diagnosed with the mildest form of learning disability, called a Specific Learning Disability (SLD), and thus the hardest to distinguish from an ordinary cognitive deficit. Between 1977 and 2006, the proportion of public school students diagnosed with SLD trebled, from 1.8 percent to 5.6 percent. By the end of that period, 40.7 percent of all students enrolled in special education had been identified as having an SLD. A limited but growing body of research suggests that financial and other incentives may be responsible for a portion of these increases.
