{"product":{"product_id":"1594032556","title":"Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent (Encounter Broadsides)","price":"8.33","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41ioAt5fnBL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594032556"},"comments":[{"body":"I just worry the US will become even more of a police state. There are way too many offences. The average American professional commits about three offences [everyday](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1279295536\u0026amp;sr=8-1). \r\n\r\nIf we prosecuted everything, no one would walk free in your country.","subreddit_name":"conspiracy","author":"GrotMilk"},{"body":"\u0026gt;This is going to crush business travel, no?\r\n\r\nThis has been the rule for decades. It is a pain, but it is also the law. Very few people know this and it is hard to enforce. The article is using a technical point of law to scare companies into buying a product to comply with this particular provision.\r\n\r\nPut this in the category of \"the average person commits three felonies a day\" - https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/","subreddit_name":"personalfinance","author":"Mrme487"},{"body":"\u0026gt; Exactly as you say, it's all up to the judge wether or not you have committed a federal crime if you mail USPS. Have you violated \"community standards\"?\r\n\r\nA postal inspector, then a prosecutor, then a judge, then a jury.  And since the jury's answer is so likely to be \"no\", everyone prior to them is not even going to try it.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; If you mail it FedEx, no judges involved, no possibility of a crime committed. \r\n\r\nNo crime under §1461.  Unfortunately, under §146*2*, using a common carrier like FexEx to transport obscene matter is also a crime.\r\n\r\n§1462 also covers computer systems.\r\n\r\nThree felonies a day, baby. [Three felonies a day.](http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556)","subreddit_name":"sex","author":"nomnommoi"},{"body":"I have no idea.  My point was \"..this is America and we have the freedom to..\" is likely incorrect if you look.  If it's legal now, give it a minute.  Oh, and if it's legal now, and isn't in 30 seconds, and you're doing it, you're still \"guilty\".\r\n\r\n[There are more \"laws\" in this country than anyone could read in a lifetime.](http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556)","subreddit_name":"pics","author":"MHOLMES"},{"body":"What is your opinion on the argument that the average american commits [three felonies a day](http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556)?\r\n\r\nThere are certain areas of the law (like the tax code and the RAP) where judges even excuse lawyers for getting it wrong because of its complexity. Ignorance of the law may not be an excuse for certain laws and derivatives of basic principles (don't steal, don't harm others) - but there is a whole lot of law that people violate unknowingly and there is no real way for them to have known.","subreddit_name":"law","author":"MELBOT87"},{"body":"Agreed.  As pointed out [in this book:  \"Three felonies a day\"](http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1272627155\u0026amp;sr=8-1) which shows how there are so many laws that even someone who is *trying* to not break laws will most likely break several laws every day and not even know it.\r\n\r\nBut this law has been on the news for days.  I turned on the radio this morning and listened to about 20 minutes of discussion on it.","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"thebrightsideoflife"},{"body":"Respectfully, I disagree with just about everything you said there..\r\n\r\nLibertarians want liberty.\r\nThe Constitutionalists want the Constitution respected.\r\n\r\nThey share many things in common, but libertarians know that if the Constitution allows for anything but liberty, it's wrong.  Fuck it.  Constitutionalists believe it's a sacred document, and think liberty is great, but it can be legitimately be amended to restrict liberty.\r\n\r\nW/o going into too much detail, \"Law\" is something that exists based on what is right.  Ever hear the line \"ignorance of the law is no excuse\"?  Ironically that almost never applies when judges, and other bureaucrats claim it, and almost always applies to contradict their actions.  In other words, \"Law\" is basically do no harm.  So no matter what amendments, statutes, or other magical pieces of paper they claim gives them the authority to violate people, not only are they wrong, but they're criminal.  Ignorance of the fact that doing harm is not acceptable is no excuse.  Statists claim it has to do with every silly statute in the book.  This nonsense.  There is no human on Earth who does, or could, know every law in existence in the United States.  There are things that are legal today, that will be illegal tomorrow, and vice versa.  The state claims that your wrong if you break those rules 1 moment after they arbitrarily decide something is no prohibited (which reminds me; might want to check out \"Three Felonies a Day\" http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594032556?tag=freetalklive-20 ) .  Absolute nonsense.  \"Ignorance of the law is no excuse\" is based in common, or natural, law.\r\n\r\nI just got distracted, and now I'm too tired to finish whatever I was thinking..  In short, chaos \u0026amp; anarchy don't go hand in hand, despite what statist desperately need you to believe.","subreddit_name":"self","author":"LSNL"},{"body":"\u0026gt; Right, but Trump was supposed to be that drastic change, he was the supposed flamethrower ready burn this pestilence from the field.\r\n\r\nIn who's minds???\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; However, we have gravely underestimated the seriousness of the situation.\r\n\r\nSays someone who hasn't bought an Evil Black Rifle and lots of ammo for it???\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; Call me conspiracy theorist all you like, but it doesn't take much to see an aggressive attempt on passing legislation that is vague enough to throw anybody in jail.\r\n\r\nErrr, we've long been there.  See e.g. [*Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent*](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594032556/)  See also [*Arrest-Proof Yourself*](https://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Dale-C-Carson/dp/1613748043) for the local version, and how to make yourself an unattractive enough target they'll move on to easier prey.  ***The Feds*** **openly** ***operate a (Left Wing) Death Squad***, the FBI Hostage \"Rescue\" Team, most recently shooting at the only guy killed in the Oregon standoff.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; Like Hate Speech laws and media narratives, that can condemn anyone for \"disturbing the peace\".\r\n\r\nBest we hope the Supremes continue with their 5 member majority in favor of free speech (*Citizens United* was where the Left really showed its hand, banning core political speech).\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; Nowadays, mass bans and blacklisting is more common than ever, and the people in these categories are taking the full brunt of it.\r\n\r\nHard to underestimate the evil and major effects of the mostly Bay Area totalitarian tech Left.\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; In short, this is much bigger than video game industry or American politics, this is far worse and it may just have been too late at this point.\r\n\r\n\"Despair is a sin\" as Jerry Pournelle liked to say, and it's hardly over.  Heck, the counter-revolution is just beginning, and we hold a great number of high cards.  We can, at the extreme of a worst case extreme civil war, liquidate the vast majority of our enemies in the US and almost all their current voting based political power [by killing the exquisitely fragile big Blue cities they live in](http://web.archive.org/web/20170815201757/http://www.bob-owens.com/2013/01/shock-the-system/).\r\n\r\n\u0026gt; The Soviets got the last laugh in the end.\r\n\r\nIndeed, they'd essentially won by the end of the 1930s, [through their willing accomplices](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983426406).","subreddit_name":"KotakuInAction","author":"hga_another"},{"body":"Do you occasionally exceed the speed limit? Jaywalk across a street late at night?\r\n\r\nIf you were stuck at a red light at 3 am and it hadn't changed for 10 minutes, would you use your personal discretion and safely go ahead?\r\n\r\nDid you ever drink before age 21? Have you brought alcohol in across state lines (prior to this year's changes)?\r\n\r\nDo you ever roll through a stop sign?\r\n\r\n[Most people have committed a jail able of fence](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/dec/08/stephen-carter/watch-out-70-us-have-done-something-could-put-us-j/)\r\n\r\n[Some sources say Americans commit around three felonies a day](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1279295536\u0026amp;sr=8-1)\r\n\r\nWe should not use the law as a source of truth for our concept of morality or rightness. We should derive our application of the law from a sense of morality and rightness.\r\n\r\nIs it moral to attack protestors because they're on the street? Should we pull you out of your car and beat you next time you roll through a stop sign? \r\n\r\nLegality clearly isn't a good barometer for justifying police brutality.","subreddit_name":"SaltLakeCity","author":"8888plasma"},{"body":"For-profit prisons are another element of greed and corruption, often contracting with states for a certain number of prisoners—giving states incentives to find those numbers of criminals to incarcerate. However, it goes far beyond that, let's talk about all the insane laws on the books. Did you know there are so many laws that can lead to incarceration that it would be impossible for me to learn every single one, even though I'm responsible for knowing them? It's estimated that the average adult in the USA (yes, that's referring to people just like you) commits [three felonies per day](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1279295536\u0026amp;sr=8-1). The author of the book, [Harvey Silverglate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Silverglate), teaches at Harvard Law School. I wonder what felonies you committed today. We should tell the police to lock Route66Blues up!\r\n\r\nJust to drive this point home. [America is home to 5% of the world's population, but it has 25% of the world's imprisoned population.](https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/dec/15/jim-webb/webb-says-us-has-5-percent-worlds-population-25-pe/)","subreddit_name":"Albuquerque","author":"propagandist"},{"body":"\u0026gt;I don't have to worry about being a criminal\r\n\r\nYou, me, and everyone here is a criminal at least three times a day according to U.S. Code: Title 18\r\n\r\nSource:  [https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18)\r\n\r\nWe just haven't been prosecuted yet!  \r\n\r\nDon't believe me?  Read this book:  [Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594032556/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0)\r\n\r\nAnyone of us, on any given day are violating at least three federal \"laws\" and that is NOT taking into account state laws and other countries' laws.  There are so many laws, nobody actually knows the exact quantity!  \r\n\r\nSource:  [Why the rule of law suffers when we have too many laws.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/10/01/why-the-rule-of-law-suffers-when-we-have-too-many-laws/)\r\n\r\nWakey wakey... 😂\r\n\r\nPS.  I truly envy people living in Lalaland!  I guess the adage:  \"Ignorance is bliss\" is truly some sort of defense mechanism to avoid facing reality.","subreddit_name":"expats","author":"magiclampgenie"},{"body":"We have too many laws. \r\n\r\nhttps://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/","subreddit_name":"news","author":"Bubba-jones"},{"body":"\u0026gt;unless you're doing something illegal\r\n\r\nI urge you to please read this book:  [https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594032556/](https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594032556/)\r\n\r\nTitle is:\r\n\r\n**Three Felonies A Day:  How the Feds Target the Innocent.**","subreddit_name":"ProtonMail","author":"Lucky-Fee2388"},{"body":"Why not everything else is illegal, not a joke. \r\nRecommended reading: https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Encounter-Broadsides/dp/1594032556/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1642473380\u0026amp;sr=8-1","subreddit_name":"Libertarian","author":"KingCodyBill"},{"body":"Just FYI, this is kind of myth. This was not a study, just a book by a Harvard professor - [Harvey Silvergate] (https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;s=books\u0026amp;qid=1279295536\u0026amp;sr=8-1). The claim he makes though, is largely an exaggeration used to highlight how over-criminalized the US law is. [Here is a decent stack exchange discussion on the topic] (https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-average-american-unwittingly-commit-three-felonies-a-day). Basically, his book doesn't actually support his claim with any statistics. He just goes through examples - majority of which are very very specific and would not happen to a typical person in a typical day :)","subreddit_name":"CFB","author":"KittiesHavingSex"}]}