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Hey guys, try and follow the laws of the country in which you live. Even if you think it's unjust, you can't change it if you're dead.

• dublinclontarf 16y ago
  What if the laws make criminals of ordinary, innocent things. This is pretty much the case in China(and many countries actually) its impossible to live without commiting some kind of crime. Thats how they get you.
  • cheez 16y ago
    This article (inspired by a book, I believe) is relevant: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574438900830760842.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870447150457443...
  • billswift 16y ago
    Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594032556/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1302971110&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/... Also read any of James Bovard's books; Lost Rights, Freedom in Chains, Feeling Your Pain, Terrorism and Tyranny, The Bush Betrayal, Attention Deficit Democracy, or Vin Suprynowicz books Send in the Waco Killers and Ballad of Carl Drega or his column on the Las Vegas Review-Journal, http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Vin_Suprynowicz.html http://www.lvrj.com/columnists/Vin_Suprynowicz.html
• anonymoushn 16y ago
  Your odds of changing it do not decrease significantly when you die.
  • cheez 16y ago
    I'm of the opinion that you change more by talking with others. I guess if you become a martyr, it's different.
• rbanffy 16y ago
  The law is only just if applied equally. I would have less problems if Chinese authorities prosecuted everyone involved in fraud. Discretionary application of the law is a worst-case-scenario.
  • cheez 16y ago
    But that's what you have even in Canada and the US if you get down to it. Discretionary = someone made noise about it.
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      Only the prosecution occurs regardless of who makes the noise, considering only the evidence there was reason for the noise.
      • cheez 16y ago
        I can see you've never been arbitrarily stopped by cops. Lucky you :)
  • bilbo0s 16y ago
    Happens everywhere. 20 year old black guy walking down street gets stopped by cops. Cops find one joint. Punishment: 5 years... he'll serve between 24 and 36 months if he's smart and stays out of trouble inside. 20 year old white guy walking down street gets stopped by cops. (I know, I know, it probably wouldn't happen. Just suspend reality for a moment. You know. Humor me). Again, cops find one joint. DA declines to prosecute. 20 year old white guy is referred to drug treatment options.
    • rbanffy 16y ago
      > Happens everywhere. That doesn't make Chinese law enforcement any more just.