If you live in a city where cops will not even ask if a person is a citizen and help the feds then why not just break any law you want because the city or town do not feel that laws are that important, right?
2006-12-03 04:12:46 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Because other laws ARE enforced!
Do not respect them and you go to jail!
2006-12-03 08:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by hq3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A rather simplistic view of things. The questions is whether a person is legal, not a citizen. Citizenship takes years. Immigration law is too complicated and raises far too many issues for some cities to handle, so far. It is all about to change. As for you breaking the law, since when did two wrongs make it right?
2006-12-03 12:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by Lorraine P 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Your question is a very bright one. But you're using the word "law" in two opposed meanings.
The first is "laws" passed by public legislative body and enforced at gunpoint on victims--it's tyranny, not "law"--orders as to what you have to say you believe or don't. do or not do, pay or agree to receive.
The second is "law"--the definition of the minimum you have to do to draw the government's attention; and the maximum the government can do to you for committing a totalitarian act--a crime against someone.
We need the second laws--and they have to apply to government operatives as well as non-governmental persons.
The second sort of tyranny--accounts for why individuals don't want to do the government's work, such as by dealing with illegal aliens.
Bottom line: "distrust of government begins when government officers can't or won't define rights, won't do their job--such as policing our borders--and start doing other things they shouldn't be doing, which impoverish our lives".
2006-12-03 12:28:02 · answer #3 · answered by Robert David M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what??? that makes no sense.. you are comparing apples to broccoli
2006-12-03 12:16:08 · answer #4 · answered by katjha2005 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋