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Old July 17, 2013, 08:41 AM   #55
csmsss
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Why do we even have local and state law enforcement if the feds want to pass laws for things that, in another time, would have been local and state matters?

Federal law enforcement is just another flavor of law enforcement. The DEA, BATFE, FBI, and other federal law enforcement agencies are routinely involved in crimes that are primarily local. Why not? Everything has some kind of link to some other state. Someone bought a car they used to transport items used in the crime. Maybe the instruments of criminality themselves came from another state. The suspected perpetrators may have been born in another state. They breathe air that came from another state. Certainly any sort of crime in one state affects willingness of people to move to that state. It affects the quality of people's lives, and the quality of education. When people routinely move between states, everything affects everything else. There are plenty of excuses to federalize things.

The feds have more resources! By involving feds, we can be sure that major crimes are handled correctly regardless of whether they occur in New York City or San Francisco or Podunk, Alaska. Only feds are good enough not to screw up investigations, or to catch that critical piece of evidence, or to avoid being discriminatory...

Once you honestly admit to federalizing law enforcement, unifying and federalizing all legislation and courts is next. Merge all the state governments and we can have a party! We'll save so much money by avoiding duplicate administration of sets of laws, too!

Constitution? What's that? It's a living document! It needs to evolve! Maybe next it can grow a third eye and a tail!
Philosophically, you and I are in lockstep. Unfortunately, the genie is out of the bottle. By what mechanism can it be put back in? Our citizenry is dumb, getting dumber, anesthetized by free money and a false notion of security.
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