Every Man a Criminal

I'll say it again, we have too many laws (and rules).

We've reached the point where it is difficult to go through your day without unknowingly violating a criminal provision of our laws and rules. Ignorance of the law is no excuse for violating them, but our government couldn't provide a list of crimes so we could even in theory read and memorize every one of them.

And so we reach a point where prosecutors are the ones who decide what laws are enforced with limited resources and what laws are ignored. They decide which "law breakers" are prosecuted and which ones are ignored. This is arbitrary and subject to political manipulation to a degree that should outrage us. They are sending out swarms of regulators to harrass our people eat out our substance.

That's no system of rule of law that I know. Our federal government is just too damned big.

UPDATE: Or every woman a criminal, of course:



I'm not trying to oppress anyone, after all.