Would you be surprised if I said that you break the law everyday? There are so many laws in the United States that everyone breaks the law without knowing it. We have too many laws, the land of the free is choking on its own Judicial System. Could this be one of the reasons we have more people in prison than any other country? In the United States 1 in every 100 adults is incarcerated. Federal and state prisons are 50-60% over capacity.
At the beginning of every year you can read the long list of new laws in the local newspaper. After that it is up to every citizen to know all the "rules" in your area. Doing this can be a full time job. It is virtually impossible for a regular citizen to keep up with all the statutes, ordinances and regulations of the city and state we live in. Most police officers don't even know all the laws they are paid to enforce. In 2012, over 29,000 laws were passed nationwide. When you break that number down, it comes out to 80 new laws each day. On the Federal level alone the laws on the books currently take up a whopping 160,000 pages. Once a law is put in place, it is very difficult to undo because of political games and bureaucracy.
Some of the laws are ridiculous and overbearing, I urge everyone to look for themselves at the link below.
http://www.worldoffemale.com/dumb-laws-state-by-state/
It seems that we are trying to solve every problem with a new law. Maybe we are trying to create a perfect world, a utopia. If everything is illegal nothing bad can happen ..right?
This country has changed a lot in 230 years, the principles of freedom, limited government and individual responsibility are just a memory.
Lets face it, the U.S Federal Government has too much power and shows no sign of slowing down. They are trying to control every aspect of our lives and they think they know better than we do. I've said many times that control and freedom are opposite terms. Its one or the other, it can't be both.
In a free country bad things are going to happen and more laws aren't the answer.- BDB
Sources- (Google Images)
http://www.infowars.com/19-signs-that-america-has-become-a-crazy-control-freak-nation-where-almost-everything-is-illegal/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121007132.html
http://www.overcriminalized.com/aboutus.aspx
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