[117814] in Cypherpunks
Re: Everyone is a felon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Icarus)
Sat Sep 11 11:48:24 1999
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:26:47 -1000
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From: Icarus <reeza@flex.com>
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At 09:01 AM 10-09-99 -0700, James A. Donald wrote:
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>I have lived an ordinary, respectable, middle class life. I have made
>my living as an engineer, and formerly a small businessman, and have
>committed innumerable very diverse of felonies, which could in theory
>get me about a thousand years of jail time, and probably most people
>who read this have also, whether they know it or not.
>
That's your problem, you are an honest citizen.
Look at the bright side, if you are convicted of a felony, you can possess
any arm you want to and have a Supreme Court precedent for dismissing the
charges if you are ever arrested, Haynes v U.S. Isn't it amazing how this
ruling protects felons, but not law-abiding citizens???
http://www.fedworld.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?waisdocid=6332416621+8+0+0&waisacti
on=retrieve
foo.
"I think we are meant to be social entities"
- Sylvia Brown
