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I doubt there's a single person alive who could answer "no" to that question with certainty and still be telling the truth. What is the purpose of a question l

• ClumsyPilot 4y ago
  It's malevalent question - most people don't even know the names of all crimes that exist - let alone defences avaliable and how they all work togetehr. Breaking into someone's house is obviously a crime, but if you were running away from a axe-wielding murder then it isn't. Taking someone's car is theft, but it isn't if 'they would have agreed for you to use it if they had known the situatiojn at hand'.
• stevenjgarner 4y ago
  Exactly. It bothers me every day. It defines much of my self-image in being present in the US. I was confronted with that question in my citizenship interview, and more recently in my global entry interview. I know of many others who have been asked the same thing. I'm thinking "heck I drove 9% over the speed limit driving to this interview. They probably know that. When I parked the car, I jay-walked across the empty street into the building. They have that on video!". If I say no, if I say yes, either way I have committed perjury. All just because I wanted my slice of the American dream. I had a friend (deceased) who was a federal agent. He explained to me years ago that the US code is intentionally drafted so that EVERYONE is a criminal (sorry @ClumsyPilot, a "suspect"). If you are in compliance with one section of code you are automatically in violation of another. If the 3-letter agency wants to get you, they can ALWAYS get you. I'm not sure that I believe that. I'm not sure I want to believe that. But he certainly believed that.