is this accurate, is this against the law?
Today more than ever the average citizen is in peril of being prosecuted and it is not as difficult as you may think to find yourself in legal hot water. Imagine what might happen if you were to find your self on a snow mobile, in a white out blizzard, you get lost and your just trying to survive, you see blue lights ahead and you head for those lights because the police are there to help right?
You would be wrong…
Guess what you just accidentally broke a federal statute, violation of the Wilderness Act.
Now you have a criminal record…
Most people think criminal law is for bad people,” says Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute. “They’re one misstep away from the nightmare of a federal indictment.” new federal laws have lower standards for conviction than in the past: Prosecutors do not always need to show criminal intent (mens rea), according the Wall Street Journal. And, federal regulations (also numbering in the thousands) often carry the force of federal criminal law as penalty.
Most people think criminal law is for bad people,” says Timothy Lynch of the Cato Institute.
“They’re one misstep away from the nightmare of a federal indictment.”
new federal laws have lower standards for conviction than in the past: Prosecutors do not always need to show criminal intent (mens rea), according the Wall Street Journal. And, federal regulations (also numbering in the thousands) often carry the force of federal criminal law as penalty.
So, if your still reading this you may be wondering what is going on and is this really the America I grew up pledging allegiance to the flag?
Yes, it is, but things have changed, it has been said over and over again that we are a nation of laws, but the truth is that is a lie…
The truth is that we the people are the only people that matter in this Nation, yet our congress treats us like criminals.
While they eat the fat and drink the sweet, this is a real issue that every American should be well aware of yet for the most part many of us are far too busy working and living our lives to be concerned with legal issues, this is why it is imperative that you know what your doing and that when you choose to go on vacation or to go even on something as simple as a cruise that you know the laws that could effect your very liberty and freedom.
It may be difficult to understand when your not in the world as often as perhaps some of your neighbors, however its important to realize that just because your neighbors may not share information about being on vacation and accidentally breaking a federal law while in a federal park, getting a $3500.00 fine, having a felony record, (no more voting) all because what, your son who is interested in cowboys and Indians went looking for arrow heads, in a federal park…
You see, there are so many laws that some have said they do not know how many laws there actually are.
Some estimate the figure at more than 4500 federal laws.
If you are reading this because you were looking for legal advice or you perhaps found this website searching for a solution to a problem you have please locate an attorney, you can often get some sound legal advice for as little as $50 and that can go a long way towards helping you get a better nights sleep…
In some ways we are watching a challenging of our constitution, by the far left, the idea that states do not have the right to protect its citizens, is absurd, however that would seem to be what we are watching in both Alabama and Arizona, Amazing stuff.
The Tenth Amendment states the Constitution’s principle of federalism by providing that powers not granted to the federal government nor prohibited to the states by the Constitution are reserved, respectively, to the states or the people.
The argument of the left, is that you don’t have the right to ask for identification if you suspect that someone is in your state illegally, however, we have to have a birth certificate if we want to do anything in this nation.
It is like the camel and the eye of the needle analogy, the liberals seem to think that the constitution does not apply to them because they are so smart.
Amazing Washington seems to have forgotton where they came from
Is google about to make a huge mistake?
Over the last few months Google has been quietly and allegedly terminating accounts, suspending ad words accounts, and doing so in a way that might actually be illegal?
Who would do something like that more so if your a company that says do no evil?
One thing may be about to change and it is something that you should be very aware about.
In so many ways, big corporate business is strangling the life out of the internet.
They are forcefully creating a situation where only large companies with more money to spend on advertising can be successful.
This is wrong…
When only large corporations are afforded the ability to advertise and the regular public as well as small business (mom and pop) business are excluded this is wrong.
In so many ways, allegedly google has done more evil than anyone even realizes, (allegedly)
The Internet does not belong to any one person or group of persons, it is a combination of resources, servers, computers, websites, search engines, commerce companies, and much more, the thing is that so many people seem to want to Tax, it or control it, or figure out how they can decide who should be able to have a website or not.
That seems like a really stupid idea.
Yet that is what the Music industry and the Motion Picture industry are trying to do.
So, what do they think?
That the internet will remain the same if they bribe congress to look the other way while they rape the internet in the name of commerce?
Is that what they really think?
I hope not because there are hundreds of thousands of websites like this one that would retire, disappear, go away, or go dark, simply because we are not going to pay for servers or pay for content or pay for videos or pay for anything that we do not have the freedom to control.
Simply said, we do not have to provide these websites, we do not have to provide content, we can take our websites and go home.
Sounds a little crazy, but that is what will happen, for 40 years, Holly wood and the broadcast media had a captive audience, they abused us with their ignorant programming, anyone remember the gong show, (think its gone away yet) try no.
The simply and drastic truth is that if holly wood has their way you will have to all watch re-runs for the rest of your life, imagine having to watch the Brady bunch for 12 hours a day…
Sure its funny for about a half hour, but after that, )
Seriously consider supporting an effort to vote out of office anyone that supports SOPA or PIPA any Senator, any Congressman…
When you think about SOPA you first think hey lets stop all these pirates online right but in reality it will not stop anything at all what it will do is allow corporations to shift the burden of proof from the plaintiff to a defendant, and it will create more problems for an already over burdened, legal system.
The truth is that we cannot afford this kind of stupidity in congress and this is the number one reason why you should vote these crooks in congress out of office.
learn more about what you should avoid in legal bills in congress.
Sign the petition to stop this attempt at massive corporations to ruin the internet for everyone.
Sopa is a lie from the pits of hell…
It is Evil and must be removed in all its forms.
We cannot allow congress to pretend to pass laws that are in the interest of corporations but pretend to be in the interest of the people.
We know its a lie, they know its a lie, they are sorry, but not for the right reasons, they are sorry that they got caught not giving a damn.
Well it took (allegedly) ATT months to stop advertising the benefits they hoped to get from that company, however, ATT is like a slow moving behemoth.
They have huge backbone resources, many of them mobile, but why cant they seem to keep up with the latest and the greatest?
Will we be better off when only one remains, when less competition, remember how it was like back in the days when you could get a cell phone bill for like 1200.00 per month, probably not, but it was really high in the beginning, simply because there was no competition.
When there is no competition the one thing that is clear is that corporations will get greedy and they will take advantage. Well it might be that ATT may not be able to take over Tmobile in its attempts to obtain a better network.
One thing seems to be clear, allegedly most Tmobile users do not want to have anything to do with ATT, why is that?
For one thing ATT has a reputation of not providing very good service, just do a google search for angry, customers, and you will find millions of them. In fact, I was a customer of ATT for 5 years, paid them $79.00 a month without fail for 5 years, and what did they do when it came time to treat me better than say some slob they did not know jack about?
You got it they treated me like any other slob, but you have to ask how is that possible when I was a good customer for 5 years, in any other market I would be treated well even likely treated like a VIP, but not at ATT, at ATT your nothing your a big fat zero, your a number, and you know what else, people at Tmobile do not want to be treated that way and if I was with Tmobile and this (un-healthy) merger were to go through I would drop them like a hot potato.
The simple fact here is that this is why we have laws to protect consumers from large companies that would allegedly seek to do harm to its customers without fear of retribution because they are so big that they cannot fail, right?
Well one thing seems clear here Tmobile should not be ATT, Go find some other company to bully you jerks, hmm, alleged, jerks.
unreal but is it true? Can it be that we are looking at criminal actions.
This just in there is quite a lot of news happening on the computer front, while some are saying that this is unconstitutional use and abuse of power others are saying it is hacking? Who is right, and who is wrong, this was received via email and may or may not represent the opinions of this news company. (alleged news company)
What can we do to keep those that are ignorant of technology from creating laws that threaten our freedom?
It’s been a crazy 24 hours. Former Demand Progress executive director Aaron Swartz was arrested yesterday for allegedly downloading academic research articles from JSTOR.
More than 35,000 people have already signed a letter of support for Aaron. Will you join them by clicking here?
The mainstream coverage of the arrest has turned in Aaron’s favor — and the outpouring of support for him is a key part of the story. Here’s a sampling of the coverage:
BOSTON GLOBE: By yesterday afternoon, however, Swartz had received an outpouring of support from colleagues and friends who took to blogs and websites to defend his work and maintain that the charges against him are heavy-handed. More than 15,000 people had signed a letter of support for Swartz on the website Demand Progress.org
HUFFINGTON POST: JSTOR’s the one that should be in prison, man, for locking up knowledge.
NEW YORK TIMES: A respected Harvard researcher who also is an Internet folk hero has been arrested in Boston on charges related to computer hacking, which are based on allegations that he downloaded articles that he was entitled to get free.
AMERICAN PROSPECT: It’s easy to forget that there’s something at all controversial or oppositional about accessing information, or that some people really, really want data to be free — and others don’t. Open data has been mainstreamed. Whatever hacker-culture roots the free information movement might have are subsumed by the idea that simply everyone agrees that data is meant to be free, and the struggle is over the mechanics of freeing it. That’s never really been true, as Swartz’s case makes plain.
BOSTON GLOBE: [Attorney Jerry] Cohen said the use of criminal charges here is the latest in what has been a government trend to prosecute such cases, which he described as taking “a sledgehammer to drive a thumb tack.’ ‘It might be taking too big a weapon,’’ he said. “It’s intended to terrorize the person who’s indicted and others who might be thinking of the same thing.’
As the case proceeds, we remain hopeful that Aaron will be cleared of any wrongdoing — and as has been proved over the last 24 hours, the more people learn about the case, the more sympathetic they become to Aaron’s cause.
Please show your support for Aaron by clicking here to sign our petition — it will only take a second.
Thanks so much for your support as we navigate these choppy waters.
— The Demand Progress team
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Should the media be fair or protected at all, because times have changed the media may no longer be what they used to be…
Can anyone get a fair trial at all when the news media is only allegedly covering one side of the news story?
Is it possible that we may no longer need the justice system, since it appears that allegedly when in the state of Florida if the state does not have enough evidence to convict someone they allegedly leak details of the case to the media, they allegedly allow TV cameras in a death case, they allegedly allow all kinds of evidence in trials when it has not been done in cases like this in the past, did the state of Florida step over a line?
is this man really telling the truth or is he an alleged liar?
Why did this guy attempt suicide,
Is it true, might you find yourself accused of a crime you did not commit and serving time in jail just because your an American?
is it fair, to say that Italy is not friendly to American Tourists?
Perhaps it is fair to say that because allegedly, if the state department cannot protect Americans then perhaps they should issue a traveler warning to avoid traveling to Italy because you might find your self a victim of a corrupt legal system.
It is really a problem and in fact they are even trying to find a way to file charges again and again, pursuing this young woman of whom she would be the third person to be convicted of murder of the same one woman.
It is bad, but the problem, is still there, Italy may no longer be a place where Americans want to travel to.
Beware, of Italy…
