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Lets call it what it is.. 'the FBI, TSA, CIA Job act'.. For ten years prior FBI, CIA, and TSA's predecessor were complaining that their job was too hard when
by shareme 15y ago
Lets call it what it is..
'the FBI, TSA, CIA Job act'..
For ten years prior FBI, CIA, and TSA's predecessor were complaining that their job was too hard when forced to follow laws and court rulings. After 9-11 we got a job act pretending to be a Law enabling finding of terrorists.
I submit spying on Americans is not finding terrorists.
- CWuestefeld 15y agoThis isn't so far-fetched as it seems, there is precedent. For example, following the 21st Amendment and the repeal of prohibition, we had a herd of enforcement agents who had nothing to do. This is part of what led to the National Firearms Act of 1934 -- ostensibly a tax measure (anybody could have a machine gun, as long as you were willing to pay the $200 tax). How else to explain the odd linking of unrelated products under the BATF -- the "Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms"?
- Zak 15y agoAlso interesting is that the law was upheld by the courts not because the government had the authority to regulate firearms, but because the tax was a revenue-generating measure, not a restriction or prohibition. The court conveniently ignored that the tax was sometimes more than 10 times the price of the item being taxed and therefore effectively a prohibition.