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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 la…

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Why ‘I Have Nothing to Hide’ Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance(r/technology)

We continue to spend billions in tax payer money on catch all dragnet programs that don’t protect us in any meaningful way. Terrorist attacks continue unabated while we practice this farce known as security theater. Meanwhile we’ve got government cronies that continue to use our data for other things that have nothing to do with fighting terrorism.

Meanwhile you’ve got politicians continuing to make laws that make even the most benign citizen a criminal.

The millennial generation will look at the baby boomers as the generation that ripped up the constitution with the same disdain that we currently view McCarthyism. Count on that.

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explainlikeimfive, Foodforthought, Libertarian, news, politics, technology

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$9.18

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Paperback

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ABIS_BOOK

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Harvey Silverglate

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Encounter Books

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Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent

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