Hopefully the tendency to criminalize mundane activities or even charitable giving itself can be arrested before anyone else finds themselves on the business end of the growing regulatory state.
5 Blood-Boiling Cases Of Government Overreach | Zero Hedge
- Single mom faces possible jail time for selling $12 worth of ceviche to an undercover police officer.
- Federal prosecutors threaten Aaron Swartz with a life-crushing sentence for downloading academic articles.
- Government claims ownership of all water, jails Oregon man for 30 days for collecting rainwater on his own property.
- Maryland church ordered to evict homeless people from its property or pay a $12,000 fine.
- San Antonio chef fined $2,000 for feeding homeless people.
Government thuggery everywhere, sometimes local other times the strong arm of the Feds.
In regards to #2 and Aaron Swartz:
The CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act – Ed) is a particularly cruel piece of legislation, as it carries severe mandatory minimum sentencing requirements, resulting in Swartz facing up to 35 years in prison for a nonviolent crime.
Many legal observers at the time pointed out that had Swartz robbed a bank, aided al-Qaeda, or produced child pornography he would have faced a more lenient sentence.
The problem I have is the Federal prosecuters are sleeping with a clear conscience after Aaron’s suicide. Here’s a trailer to a movie done on Aaron Swartz’s life:
