<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0fd8cc95-cc2b-4e20-8cbb-d709352e47fa/C42E8E8C-228C-4282-AE17-0DE59EFA7E4A/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now" href="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now" style="font-size: 11px;">reason.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now"><P><EM>"There's no way to rule innocent men.</EM><EM><BR /></EM><EM>The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals.</EM><EM><BR /></EM><EM>Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them.</EM><EM><BR /></EM><EM>One declares so many things to be a crime</EM><EM><BR /></EM><EM>that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."</EM> </p> <P>—<A href="http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote/ayn_rand_quote_73a6">Ayn Rand </A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now"><A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1594032556/reasonmagazineA/">In his new book</A>, the Boston-based civil liberties advocate and <A href="http://reason.com/people/harvey-silverglate/all">occasional <EM>Reason</EM> contributor</A> Harvey Silverglate estimates that in 2009, the average American commits about three federal felonies per day.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now">In fact, it's nearly impossible for some business owners to comply with one federal regulation without violating another one. We're no longer governed by laws, we're governed by the whims of lawyers. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://reason.com/archives/2009/10/19/were-all-felons-now"><P>Whatever one may think of Ayn Rand's political philosophy or ethics, her criminal justice prophecy has proven unsettlingly accurate: In our continuing eagerness to purge American society of crime, we've allowed the government to make us all into criminals. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C42E8E8C-228C-4282-AE17-0DE59EFA7E4A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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