We live in a historic time having just learned that a convicted felon may become the next President of the United States of America.
Yet, oddly, felons cannot hold broadcast licenses.
But the mind reels knowing that a popular book brings the point that we are so immersed in laws that the average citizen unknowingly commits an average of three felonies a day.
The courts do not have time to convict everybody and usually hold themselves exempt from prosecution, otherwise we'd run out of qualified radio license holders.
Part 15 operation, at least for now, is a haven for felons, convicted or otherwise.
As amazing as it may be, it turns out that I, blogging under the name 'Carl Blare', does not/ do not always know what he or I am talking about.
Sometimes felons may be granted a broadcast or HAM license!
I can't think of any felonies I commit each day. They are not called felonies here just criminal offences. I may break some municipal offences but felonies I don't know. Maybe if I looked at the books I may find one. The link doesn't give any examples.
I'm guessing that the book probably gives examples of the felonies people unknowingly commit. I am afraid to read it. I'd rather nor know what I'm doing wrong. Attorneys are expensive.
Well, there are felonies and then are are felonies.
From another site, here are some un bolded felonies, probably those examples Carl references:
- Honk your horn near a sandwich shop after 9pm in Arkansas
- Keep a couch on your porch in Colorado
The site I found had lots more rather silly things like these.
There are obviously too many lawmakers with free time on their hands.
But be that as it may, there's also a difference between unknowingly running afoul of those numerous silly things, and doing something a lot more serious that, unless you have the IQ of a turnip, you know is breaking the law. It's a fallacious argument to equate the two, or excuse the latter because of the former.