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To: didjuneau who wrote (762013)	4/27/2022 4:55:00 AM
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What is freedom? I know what it isn't. Andrew J Galambos's definition of FREEDOM: Message 30924031 *freedom is the societal condition that exists when one has 100% control over one's life and all non-procreative derivatives of one's life.* It isn't this. This is "collective" control. Projection of the collective's motives. Impugning them to be guilty. Population control. More fun to some than resource or merit based achievement control. Now we have gender preference/gender slamming/gender bending population control. Funny that I can see in my own life the change for the worse starting with Bush Sr. Seems like it went from voluntary population control, based on laws that were public, to hidden-agenda population control based on internal policies and regulations within the bureaucratic machinery. This old article I found discusses some strange changes to law over the years, whereby you no longer are required to have a "guilty mind". So now we are getting into guilt by association. It's not just RICO. It is "collective punishment". The Changing Face of Criminal Law Message 21969367 The origin of modern criminal law can be traced to early feudal times. From its inception, the criminal law expressed both a moral and a practical judgment about the societal consequences of certain activity: to be a crime, the law required that an individual must both cause (or attempt to cause) a wrongful injury and do so with some form of malicious intent. Classically, lawyers capture this insight in two principles: in order to be a crime there must be both an actus reus (a bad act) and a culpable mens rea (a guilty mind). At its roots, the criminal law did not punish merely bad thoughts (intentions to act without any evil deed) or acts that achieved unwittingly wrongful ends but without the intent to do so. The former were for resolution by ecclesiastical authorities and the latter were for amelioration in the tort system. As Hanousek demonstrates, this classical understanding of criminal law no longer holds. Classical liberalism vs neo-liberalism. Classical law vs neo-law. "Oh, it was a crazy story!" Dave Chappelle. The topsy-turvy world of projection onto the collective. Jussie Smollett type behavior is being institutionalized everywhere in the policies and laws. Looks like Chappelle likes freedom too. I like that guy. Stands up for himself and funny!