"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Almost Everything Is A Crime In America Now: 14 Of The Most Ridiculous Things That Americans Are Being Arrested For
On a certain level, I think this bodes well for the future because the more oppressive and outright ridiculous the legal system becomes, the less people respect it, resulting (hopefully) in a decrease in the number of people that feel obligated to obey its laws or, as has been seen recently in the difficulty one small town had in seating a jury for a marijuana case, to participate in enforcing its laws.
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