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To: bentway who wrote (52491)	4/21/2006 11:51:04 AM
From: shades	Respond to of 306849

They really hate "Big Love"! HAHA! I haven't seen it yet - is it any good? Look we have belief systems that are growing into greater and greater conflict. I don't think the mormons should have yielded all those years ago - either you have freedom of religion or you don't eh? Either they are breaking the law or they are not - its not fair to me and you as taxpayers to have different laws for us than them eh? Perhaps many of those marriages aren't forced, but if the children had grown up under a different belief system they wouldn't want to marry and have 40 kids at 14 years old. Look I see way too many other americans going down for breaking federal laws these guys are getting away with - so much for lady justice being blind. Here the latest in more social control: tbo.com In ga or utah they would look the other way - but this girl going down for sleeping with a 16 year old girl - how long before all the jails are so full that 10% of US GDP won't be enough to pay for them all? A cop once told me ignorance is no excuse - do you know the 4000 federal laws? then all the state and local ones too? HAHA@! catostore.org At one time, the sanction of the criminal law was reserved for serious, morally culpable offenders. But during the past 40 years, an unholy alliance of tough-on-crime conservatives and anti-big-business liberals has utterly transformed the criminal law. Today, while violent crime often goes unpunished, Congress continues to add new, trivial offenses to the federal criminal code. With more than 4,000 federal offenses on the statute books, and thousands more buried in the Code of Federal Regulations, it is now frighteningly easy for American citizens to be hauled off to jail for actions that no reasonable person would regard as crimes. At the same time, rampant federalization and mandatory minimum sentencing are making America’s criminal justice system ever more centralized and punitive. The result is a labyrinthine criminal code, a burgeoning prison population, and often real injustice. Go Directly to Jail examines those alarming trends and proposes reforms that could rein in a criminal justice apparatus at war with fairness and common sense.