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  • From: Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Political question, if I may
  • Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:42:25 -0800

A light bulb went on while I was doing dishes. When I was on the grand jury, I noticed that everywhere possible, a felony burglary charge was being tacked onto what would otherwise be misdemeanor crimes. So finally I asked, "if a person were to enter a house without permission with the intention of stealing a lit cigarette in an ashtray, that would be a felony?" The presiding liawyer read us the statute with relish to prove that this was indeed the case. If you enter a house with the intention of committing a crime, no matter how small or whether related to the house or its occupants, whether or not they press charges (for instance, if you ducked into your vacationing buddy's kitchen to clean some out-of-season trout), you'll be guilty of a felony. This statute undoubtedly exists in California too.

Now that laws exist with such creative potential, the product of a quarter-century of the fascist revolution, it dawns on me that the "free drug giveaway" was precisely the same thing. If they can prove that you walked through a doorway into a framed structure to obtain what you believed to be a joint, then you can be sent away for years.

The neuter running the Ms. NebBisCh show probably didn't mention that. It might result in a massive tune-out, on the part of gullible females and others, if it became known that the only guys charged were the ones who actually brought the beer (after prompting) AND mentioned the (imaginary) girl by (fictitious) name, and then only because it's conveniently now a felony to enter a building with the intention of furnishing beer to a (non-existent) minor. It's a little less spicy to find out that this is just the latest scam they're running, using their newest law enforcement toy. Who cares whether the guys were even charged with what might be a misdemeanor if they actually did the crime? The only purpose is to provide bodies to the machine, and the magic word "felony" is like an F-ticket, the ride that goes on forever.

Bill

Marie McHarry wrote:

On 11/12/06, Bill Jones <billj AT harborside.com> wrote:

I'm not surprised that someone out there thinks this is a great thing.
Maybe it's a felony to steal play money that's really convincing looking
too. If there were 3 non-existent quincean~eras in the made-up story,
does that trigger 3 counts of molestation?


IIRC, you don't have kids, Bill, but assuming you did, what would you
do if you came home and found some guy chatting up your 14-year-old in
the kitchen? I'm sure it happens. If so many guys will come out of the
woodwork for the TV show, I'm sure they come out when the bait is
real, not a decoy. I see (and I think the law does too) a big
difference between showing up for free drugs and showing up for free
sex with a minor.

Marie
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