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> Also, the Constitution itself forbids "ex post facto" laws, which means you can't be convicted of actions that were not actually crimes at the time you did it
by bifrost 13y ago
> Also, the Constitution itself forbids "ex post facto" laws, which means you can't be convicted of actions that were not actually crimes at the time you did it.
California and a few other states love ignoring this, I believe there's even legislation going up for vote this week that criminalizes exactly this. Until the government is adequately constrainted by its contstituency, we will always have overreaches.
- mpyne 13y ago> Until the government is adequately constrainted by its contstituency, we will always have overreaches. If there's only one lesson I wish people would take away from all this NSA drama, it's this one. The government is in the end what people make of it, nothing more or less.