Commentary

The Feds Criminalize Ordinary Life

By Quin Hillyer
Wednesday, September 28 2011

Finally, some front-page attention to a major, and frightening, American problem! Tuesday’s Wall Street Journal featured an in-depth look at how federal laws increasingly apply criminal penalties for violations involving no mens rea, roughly translated as a “guilty mind.” The stricture against criminal penalties for unwitting violations is an age-old, bedrock legal principle. Alas, in today’s dangerously armed, bureaucratic super-state, ancient legal principles go by the wayside when politicians pretend to be “tough on crime” and when officious civil “servants”…

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