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The only way to stop these large criminal enterprises is to legalize the stuff.

Also, the stigma of having a criminal record sticks to you forever.

Look at the fact that they issued a record 10000+ 483s in 2011[9], which threaten a business with civil or criminal penalties.

> It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal.

It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal.

Also, it is not authorized by the constitution, and thus every act of seizure under it is criminal act.

Can it be interpreted to criminalize things that Congress might not have intended to criminalize?

No longer will 'confessions' rely on the memory of the officer; no longer will complaints become a "criminal's word against the officer".

I encourage her to delete this post and initiate a criminal trial in order to hold the perpetrator accountable.

Think about that: criminal penalties for violations of laws that "won't be that easy for people to follow", where knowledge or participation in the alleged violations is not necessary.

We construe criminal statutes narrowly so that Congress will not unintentionally turn ordinary citizens into criminals.

Just like alcohol prohibition created some of the most notorious American criminals, South American drug prohibitions produce powerful criminals down there.

It's no wonder that trials by jury are becoming so vanishingly rare that even the Supreme Court has written that "in todays criminal justice system, the negotiation of a plea bargain, rather than the unfolding of a trial, is almost always the critical point for a defendant.

If the US is nowhere near being an authoritarian police state, at what point will US become a authoritarian police state?When they have kill lists without any trial, jury or judge?When they keep prisoners in jail indefinitely without a trial?When they torture prisoners?When state officials lie to the public?When state officials lie to public representatives?When the secret police interfere with lawyers communications and interferes with legal cases?When the secret police silence individuals that want to inform about abuse?When the secret police use surveillance for blackmailing?When the state use strip searches and surveillance indiscriminately against the population, including children?When the state implement state censorship?When they use force against peaceful demonstrators?When they utilize military resources against peaceful demonstrators?When they seize bank assets without any trial, any intention of a trial, or even without ever formally serving the individual with criminal papers?Please state what criteria we should use, so we can have a final definition of what an authoritarian police state is.