[lbo-talk] If you live in the USA, you probably have already committed a felony today

[c b]

Since this has pertinent today, my position is not that _if_ you are
innocent, you have nothing to worry about. As a representative of the
Communist Party USA legacy in which thousands and tens of thousands
were treated as not innocent when they were innocent, framed in a
complex way, I am well aware of the ability of the US secret police to
frame innocents.  My position is the best we can do is explicitly and
exaggeratedly proclaim the innocence and legality of our actions and
political tactics.   But also, right now, lefts are not the target of
the US secret police as much as during the Cold War.

On the laws, when I was in law school , I had a logic class in which
we analyzed RICO to be sort of absurdly legally explosive. However ,
the claim that everybody breaks federal law everyday exaggerates worry
if only because they can't put everybody in prison.

On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 6:13 PM, JOANNA  A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
> If you're going to make these kind of assertions, you need more than guesses.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> [WS:] Also, if you live in the USA, the chances are that such a statement
> is an opening salvo in a campaign to gut some environmental or safety
> regulation, so some rich assholes can make more money.
>
> My guess is that the great majority of these laws being broken daily are
> safety, traffic, or environmental protection laws or regulations. So I am
> not sure what the alternative is - some libertarian wet dream in which one
> does what one can afford to do and the only laws on the books are those
> protecting private property of the haves?
>
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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