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Originally Posted by Fishpart
It is Tyranny, fueled by the media and education systems which are simply the propaganda arm of the Government masteminds. Next thing we know anything not specifically allowed will be forbidden; anything for the betterment of man.
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This is what our country has evolved into. It is not a matter of "is XYZ illegal?" but "does the government
allow us to do that."
Laws in this country are supposed to be created with the assumption that everything is legal except for that which is specifically made not legal. Today, there are so many laws and such convoluted interpretation of those laws, that the government can make not wiping your ass properly illegal if they want to.
A perfect example of what I'm talking about is the leveraging of wiretapping laws in order to arrest and successfully prosecute people for recording police while out in public. The spirit of the law was to prevent the unknown recording of phone conversations, not the video recording of police while out in public.