Strikes Law Persuasive Speech

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I had a great day yesterday. I woke up early to kayak with some friends, went shopping and grabbed some lunch at a nice hole in the wall restaurant before heading off to the great state of California that evening. I also committed a felony. I'm not sure what it was, but were we ruled by an omnipotent computer-god with the sole imperative to identify law breakers I'd be being processed for booking right now, along with the nearly all of you. Such is the state of our hyper-regulated society and its gargantuan 175,000 page[1] Code of Federal Regulations that we all unknowingly commit innumerable crimes over our otherwise uninteresting lives--behind every straitlaced CPA lies an unwitting criminal mastermind. But have no fear! For the ambitious legal scholar potential offenses can easily be identified in the Code's 1,170 page index. If brevity is the soul of …show more content…

All of these laws need to be modified, but no change is on the horizon. Hyper-liberal California eventually modified its three strikes law, but only after 20 years of tyranny and via referendum--a system most states don't have. Forty years of failure and the drug war continues. Nullification deals with the here and now, it doesn't wait several decades to take action. Politicians, who have every incentive to appear "tough on crime" and no incentive to free masses of offenders, some of whom will inevitably commit well publicized crimes and cost them reelection, will *never* solve the problem. The political system has failed and the citizenry needs every tool in its arsenal to protect itself from tyranny--nullification is not perfect, but given what I've demonstrated about governmental overreach I'd much prefer to be taken to court by an overzealous prosecutor in a world where nullification exists. Voters, which world would you

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