Slate published a couple good articles on Friday dealing with prosecutors and their new cudgels with which to beat the citizenry into proper obsequiousness. Read:
- Everyday Obstruction: The government finds a new way to nail old tax evaders
How prosecutors nail people, like Martha Stewart, Frank Quattrone, and Jayson Williams with obstruction when they cannot make a case for an actual, you know, crime. - Zero to Life: The injustice of white-collar sentencing rules
How a “fraud” that causes Microsoft stock price to fall less than a nickel could cost the perpetrator life in prison.
Read them, and weep that your legislators will forever more empower prosecutors until such time as we’re all in prison, and they have to go after each other for wrongful prosecution and corruption.
