Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
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The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies a Day do not apply solely to "white collar criminals," state and local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional democracy hangs in the balance.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1594035229
ISBN13:9781594035227
Release Date:June 2011
Publisher:Encounter Books
Length:392 Pages
Weight:1.28 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"
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Every American Needs To Read This Book
Published by JOHN POLEY LAWYER IN DAYTON, OHIO , 5 years ago
The Congress Does Not Work For Us: Our Politicians Work For Corporations, Not The Prople. This Author Is Very Courageous To Show The Incredible Laws That Can Literally Financially Destroy Each Of Us Or Imprison All Of Us At The Whim.Of The Super Fascist Corporations. Think General Flynn Or Roger Stone For Starters, Or Google Catherine Austin Fitts, And Believe Me You Will Not Get This Truth From Your Newspaper Or The Major Mass Media.
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