Creating New Criminals

Well it seems today, with 1 out of every 99 American citizens are incarcerated in American prisons, you would think that politicians would try to find ways to prevent this statistic. The ideas that come to mind to me would be, see if the laws are too overbearing (are you asking too much of the people on some of the laws), are there social ills causing the rise, are the level of approval of the government at a high level of happiness, are the levels of poor economic conditions causing the people to resort to such reaction, are the ideals of an overbearing or possibly oppressive government taking its toll on the citizens. I am sure that a combination of these are possible causes for this influx of society into the prisons.

I think to some of the laws that are oppressive. DUI laws, i believe, are such. If you partake in any amount of alcohol, you can be punished. If you are over the legal limit of blood alcohol level you can be charged with Driving Under The Influence, however if you are under that proclaimed "Legal Limit" you can be charged with Driving While Intoxicated. So in this instance you can be punished regardless of whether you under over or under the "Legal Limit". So even though the government would never tell you the truth, they have a created an environment where you do not have a chance if you drink. If you have one sip of alcohol and go outside, you have broken a law of some sort.

But i have digressed a little from the main topic of this post. There is a group that has spent a considerable amount of time looking into the amount of criminal laws that has been put into law by our Congress. This has nothing to do with the amount of criminal laws passed by state and local governments, only what Congress passes. So it seems that since 1983, there have been over 1400 new criminal laws added to the books, not to mention over 400 laws that are added to the books for federal crimes.

So, if you think hard for a minute, you will see what is happening. How do you keep a population in line? Take away their rights. What is the best way to take ones rights away? By making it law that if you commit a crime, that you lose some of your rights. How do you make it happen? By passing so many laws that just about anything you do breaks at least one law.

This group has come up with tons of stupid laws that have been passed. One such law put a man in jail for 2 years for not putting an appropriate stamp on a package sent via UPS.

I feel it is time for us to stand up and push back against the Congress that is hell bent on taking all rights away from us and condemning us to their will.

Viva Liberty!