Unless you can truly offer a good reason for doing so, argues Heritage’s Brian Walsh. Heritage issued a joint study last month with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, and no, that is not as odd an alliance as it may sound. [Insider Online]
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Good article, but it would be far stronger if it gave some examples of what it saw as overcriminalization.
To Live And Breathe Is Criminal…
I’ve been worried and disgusted by the constant law-passing in this country. It’s hard to have any idea what’s legal and illegal anymore — which makes it easy for any citizen to be arrested……
Congress will keep criminalizing things as long as voters reward them at the ballot box for doing so. If voters voted against politicians who were overzealous in criminalizing things, politicians would stop doing it. No one today ever loses an election for being too harsh on criminal matters, and it never helps to be accused of being too soft on them. Until that changes, Congress will keep criminalizing everything.
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The way politicians think, the best reason to criminalise something is that it’s not criminalised yet.
Therefore they always have a very good reason, the reason being there’s no law against it yet.