Identity Theft - Only Illegal When Citizens Do It!
July 24, 2008 by Laura | Trackback URI
Take your blood pressure medication before heading out to NPR for this story:
Immigrant Rights Groups Challenge ID Theft Arrests : NPR
A congressional panel is meeting Thursday to look at the controversial fallout from an immigration raid on an Iowa meat-packing plant in May. Not long ago, illegal immigrants swept up in such raids faced administrative charges and swift deportation. But in recent years, the Bush administration has started bringing criminal charges against immigrants who use fake documents, including stolen Social Security numbers.… “If you want to think of it in legal terms, it would be that a person has to be put upon notice of what the crime is,” Koos said. “And in this case, it’s knowingly to use someone else’s identity. My client didn’t know he had someone else’s Social Security number, he just had a number.”
Koos lost the case on appeal, and his immigrant client is now serving five years in federal prison. But Koos’ argument has been backed by other appeals courts — and he thinks the Supreme Court may need to resolve the dispute.
Yet another example of how little the open borders crowd respects anyone’s intelligence, including the illegal aliens they’re fighting so hard to protect. His client is so stupid that he didn’t realize the ID he “bought off the street” was illegal? If he was really under the impression that he just needed “a number” why did he not simply make one up during his job interview? We’re so stupid we’re expected to believe this ridiculous story?
If ignorance of the law is now going to be an acceptable legal defense, and someone’s claim to ignorance is acceptable proof, I’m going to have a ball with that.
- No, officer, I didn’t realize the speed limit was 35! And you have a nice day, too!
- What taxes? I didn’t get a bill, so I just assumed I didn’t owe anything. When other people want money from me, they send an invoice, so I figured the government would too.
- Frank J. said it was our civic duty to punch hippies - you mean he wasn’t telling the truth? Oops. My bad!
Oh, yeah. It’s a whole new day.
Being an idiot should be a crime in itself but then that would take a large percentage of the population off the streets …….
Did you see the Houston (SugarLand) story about the Obama supporter attacking the McKain’s? I put it up on my blog. Unfortunately this form of idiocy is becoming all too popular in our area. I hesitate to put any form of political statement on my car. My mini would end up crushed.