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Old April 13th 05, 05:47 AM
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On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:41:29 -0400,

Once again you base your mistaken opinion on technicalities and
semantics. Someone who murders someone is still guilty of a criminal
act regardless if he's been caught yet. Being pronounced guilty is
only a formality. The same holds true for the FCC rules.



Here we go again. DAVE, is Michael Jackson guilty?
Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?
You can't, you are not a sheriff, judge & jury, to
which is the only way someone can be classified
a criminal, after being convicted, before that they
are only a suspect.



Only a court of law can refer to one as a criminal, and yes, the fact
that one has NOT been caught yet (as you tried and failed with) most
certainly abdicates them from being referred a criminal,,,,,again, the
fact that you disagree with our justice system is YOUR bad.


Yep, the old subversive ploy of thinking that "it's only guilty if
you're caught" mentality. Typical of all slackers and scofflaws.


Nope, it's called a guilty conscience, to which you can only
be called guilty in front of the lord all-mighty, everything
else has to be done through a court of law.

Dave



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Old April 13th 05, 02:08 PM
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:47:24 GMT, "Landshark"
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"Dave Hall" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:41:29 -0400,

Once again you base your mistaken opinion on technicalities and
semantics. Someone who murders someone is still guilty of a criminal
act regardless if he's been caught yet. Being pronounced guilty is
only a formality. The same holds true for the FCC rules.



Here we go again. DAVE, is Michael Jackson guilty?


I don't know. But whether or not the court pronounced him as such
doesn't change the acts that he may or may not have done.


Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?


If you witness someone killing another, do you need a jury verdict
before you know that that person is a murderer?

If the law defines a particular act as criminal, then if you engage in
that act, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Being labeled as
such by a court is only a formality and a convenient excuse for people
who want to thumb their nose at the law, and wish to ease their guilty
conscience, by trying to convince themselves that their activities
aren't really criminal because they haven't been caught yet..


You can't, you are not a sheriff, judge & jury, to
which is the only way someone can be classified
a criminal, after being convicted, before that they
are only a suspect.


Maybe in a legal sense, but that's a poor justification for engaging
in criminal behavior, and saying; "you can't call me a criminal
because a jury didn't convict me yet".


Only a court of law can refer to one as a criminal, and yes, the fact
that one has NOT been caught yet (as you tried and failed with) most
certainly abdicates them from being referred a criminal,,,,,again, the
fact that you disagree with our justice system is YOUR bad.


Yep, the old subversive ploy of thinking that "it's only guilty if
you're caught" mentality. Typical of all slackers and scofflaws.


Nope, it's called a guilty conscience, to which you can only
be called guilty in front of the lord all-mighty


Isn't that enough?

, everything
else has to be done through a court of law.


You can't serve time and be branded a "criminal" until found guilty in
a court of law. But the fact that you might get away with a crime,
doesn't lessen what you truly are.

Playing word games doesn't hide that fact.


Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj
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Old April 13th 05, 02:40 PM
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"Dave Hall" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:47:24 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Dave Hall" wrote in message
. ..
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:41:29 -0400,

Once again you base your mistaken opinion on technicalities and
semantics. Someone who murders someone is still guilty of a criminal
act regardless if he's been caught yet. Being pronounced guilty is
only a formality. The same holds true for the FCC rules.



Here we go again. DAVE, is Michael Jackson guilty?


I don't know. But whether or not the court pronounced him as such
doesn't change the acts that he may or may not have done.


Doesn't change the acts he may or may not done? If he's
done something wrong, found guilty then he's a criminal.
If he done nothing wrong, went to court and was found
not guilty, he should still be labeled a criminal because
he's being accused?



Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?


If you witness someone killing another, do you need a jury verdict
before you know that that person is a murderer?


I heard someone on 2 meteres last night, swearing, threating
people, is he guilty of violating FCC rules?


If the law defines a particular act as criminal, then if you engage in
that act, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Being labeled as
such by a court is only a formality and a convenient excuse for people
who want to thumb their nose at the law, and wish to ease their guilty
conscience, by trying to convince themselves that their activities
aren't really criminal because they haven't been caught yet..


No, it's a fact. Going around chasing speeders, j-walkers,
litterbugs etc etc and calling them criminals will change
nothing. You'll have to start calling 4 out of 10 people
you know criminals then, because by a national survey
that's the percentage that speed.



You can't, you are not a sheriff, judge & jury, to
which is the only way someone can be classified
a criminal, after being convicted, before that they
are only a suspect.


Maybe in a legal sense, but that's a poor justification for engaging
in criminal behavior, and saying; "you can't call me a criminal
because a jury didn't convict me yet".


A well known business man is accused by his ex-wife of
being a child molester. DA says that he won't prosecute
because lack of evidence and it doesn't look like he
really did anything. You start calling him a child molester
and criminal to friends and people that you know, that will
leave you open for a slander lawsuit, that's why you don't
run around accusing people of being criminals.




Only a court of law can refer to one as a criminal, and yes, the fact
that one has NOT been caught yet (as you tried and failed with) most
certainly abdicates them from being referred a criminal,,,,,again, the
fact that you disagree with our justice system is YOUR bad.

Yep, the old subversive ploy of thinking that "it's only guilty if
you're caught" mentality. Typical of all slackers and scofflaws.


Nope, it's called a guilty conscience, to which you can only
be called guilty in front of the lord all-mighty


Isn't that enough?


If you conscience bothers you, yes.


, everything
else has to be done through a court of law.


You can't serve time and be branded a "criminal" until found guilty in
a court of law. But the fact that you might get away with a crime,
doesn't lessen what you truly are.

Playing word games doesn't hide that fact.


Playing with meanings doesn't hide the fact either Dave,
that's why they are called suspects, not criminals.
Oh, by the way, that ham operator using the foul language
and threating people, his callsign he was using was N3CVJ.
By you're logic, that alone should brand you a criminal.

Dave



Landshark


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My bad..the camera is mightier than the blowhard(s)..in most respects.


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Old April 13th 05, 05:19 PM
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:40:48 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Dave Hall" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:47:24 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Dave Hall" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:41:29 -0400,

Once again you base your mistaken opinion on technicalities and
semantics. Someone who murders someone is still guilty of a criminal
act regardless if he's been caught yet. Being pronounced guilty is
only a formality. The same holds true for the FCC rules.


Here we go again. DAVE, is Michael Jackson guilty?


I don't know. But whether or not the court pronounced him as such
doesn't change the acts that he may or may not have done.


Doesn't change the acts he may or may not done? If he's
done something wrong, found guilty then he's a criminal.
If he done nothing wrong, went to court and was found
not guilty, he should still be labeled a criminal because
he's being accused?


What if he's done the acts he was accused of, but because of an
inability for the state to prove it, or the credibility of the
witnesses becomes cloudy and he walks, what does THAT make him?


Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?


If you witness someone killing another, do you need a jury verdict
before you know that that person is a murderer?


I heard someone on 2 meters last night, swearing, threating
people, is he guilty of violating FCC rules?


Absolutely!


If the law defines a particular act as criminal, then if you engage in
that act, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Being labeled as
such by a court is only a formality and a convenient excuse for people
who want to thumb their nose at the law, and wish to ease their guilty
conscience, by trying to convince themselves that their activities
aren't really criminal because they haven't been caught yet..


No, it's a fact. Going around chasing speeders, j-walkers,
litterbugs etc etc and calling them criminals will change
nothing.


Nor will stating that a person clearly engaging in a particular
criminal activity isn't really a criminal because they haven't been
caught or convicted of it yet.


You'll have to start calling 4 out of 10 people
you know criminals then, because by a national survey
that's the percentage that speed.


Speeding is not considered a criminal offense. Operating a radio
transmitter without a license is. Interesting that you lump illegally
operating a radio transmitter in with such trivial summary offenses as
jay-walking, speeding and simple littering. Those summary offenses do
not carry criminal penalties. Violation of certain FCC rules, on the
other hand, does. Some people used to think the same thing about
theft of cable TV service. Until the law changed and got some teeth.
Now people who sell cable theft devices face serious jail time.


You can't, you are not a sheriff, judge & jury, to
which is the only way someone can be classified
a criminal, after being convicted, before that they
are only a suspect.


Maybe in a legal sense, but that's a poor justification for engaging
in criminal behavior, and saying; "you can't call me a criminal
because a jury didn't convict me yet".


A well known business man is accused by his ex-wife of
being a child molester. DA says that he won't prosecute
because lack of evidence and it doesn't look like he
really did anything. You start calling him a child molester
and criminal to friends and people that you know, that will
leave you open for a slander lawsuit, that's why you don't
run around accusing people of being criminals.


Ah, but there is a fine difference. A person accused is presumed
innocent until proven guilty. But you know as well as I do that the
system is flawed, and many times guilty people walk for various
reasons. Conversely, some innocent people are wrongly convicted. But
if I witness a crime, I don't need a jury to tell me that the perp is
a criminal.

Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children? Admitting to an
unlawful activity is the same thing in principle to pleading guilty in
a trial. It may be "unofficial" but that's all I need to see to make
up my mind.


If I arbitrarily call you a federal lawbreaking criminal for violation
of FCC rules on freebanding or power levels, and I can't prove it, it
becomes libel (Assuming you really aren't doing it).

If, on the other hand, I monitor you doing it, or you brag to other
people that you do it, then you are engaging in a criminal activity.


Only a court of law can refer to one as a criminal, and yes, the fact
that one has NOT been caught yet (as you tried and failed with) most
certainly abdicates them from being referred a criminal,,,,,again, the
fact that you disagree with our justice system is YOUR bad.

Yep, the old subversive ploy of thinking that "it's only guilty if
you're caught" mentality. Typical of all slackers and scofflaws.

Nope, it's called a guilty conscience, to which you can only
be called guilty in front of the lord all-mighty


Isn't that enough?


If you conscience bothers you, yes.


If you are of sound moral principles, then it should. If not, then you
start bordering on sociopathic tendencies.


, everything
else has to be done through a court of law.


You can't serve time and be branded a "criminal" until found guilty in
a court of law. But the fact that you might get away with a crime,
doesn't lessen what you truly are.

Playing word games doesn't hide that fact.


Playing with meanings doesn't hide the fact either Dave,
that's why they are called suspects, not criminals.


Once again, this is to accommodate a person's presumption of innocence
in the course of due process . And once again, if you witness a crime,
you don't need a jury to tell you what your senses already did.


Oh, by the way, that ham operator using the foul language
and threating people, his callsign he was using was N3CVJ.
By you're logic, that alone should brand you a criminal.


No, since I did not do it, and the distance between us makes it very
unlikely that you heard me. Now, if I stated that I did it and/or you
witnessed ME doing it, and you could positively identify me, then you
could factually make that statement.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj
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Old April 13th 05, 10:56 PM
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Dave Hall wrote:
Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children?

What do you think about a dog that is making a living but refuses to
feed his children, to the point of getting tagged with a felony for it?


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Old April 14th 05, 11:38 AM
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On 13 Apr 2005 21:56:43 GMT, Steveo wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:
Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children?

What do you think about a dog that is making a living but refuses to
feed his children, to the point of getting tagged with a felony for it?


As a parent, I am particularly offended by it. Anyone who is found to
have been deliberately negligent to his children deserves far more
than my scorn though.

Dave
"Sandbagger"

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Old April 14th 05, 11:52 PM
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Dave Hall wrote:
On 13 Apr 2005 21:56:43 GMT, Steveo wrote:

Dave Hall wrote:
Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children?

What do you think about a dog that is making a living but refuses to
feed his children, to the point of getting tagged with a felony for it?


As a parent, I am particularly offended by it. Anyone who is found to
have been deliberately negligent to his children deserves far more
than my scorn though.

Exactly. I know there are child support disputes that are hard to rectify
and a few of my friends have been down that road but somehow it gets
resolved one way or another.

The only guy I know that abused the system so bad that he got a court
ordered head shrinker, and a felony out of it is N8WWM Doug Adair.
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Old April 14th 05, 05:36 AM
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"Dave Hall" wrote in message
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On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 13:40:48 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Dave Hall" wrote in message
news
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 04:47:24 GMT, "Landshark"
wrote:


"Dave Hall" wrote in message
m...
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:41:29 -0400,

Once again you base your mistaken opinion on technicalities and
semantics. Someone who murders someone is still guilty of a criminal
act regardless if he's been caught yet. Being pronounced guilty is
only a formality. The same holds true for the FCC rules.


Here we go again. DAVE, is Michael Jackson guilty?

I don't know. But whether or not the court pronounced him as such
doesn't change the acts that he may or may not have done.


Doesn't change the acts he may or may not done? If he's
done something wrong, found guilty then he's a criminal.
If he done nothing wrong, went to court and was found
not guilty, he should still be labeled a criminal because
he's being accused?


What if he's done the acts he was accused of, but because of an
inability for the state to prove it, or the credibility of the
witnesses becomes cloudy and he walks, what does THAT make him?


It make's him not guilty in a criminal court of law, sucks
but that the law.


Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?

If you witness someone killing another, do you need a jury verdict
before you know that that person is a murderer?


Yup, right now he's only a killer, but after the court
rules he's guilty, then he's a murderer.


I heard someone on 2 meters last night, swearing, threating
people, is he guilty of violating FCC rules?


Absolutely!


If the law defines a particular act as criminal, then if you engage in
that act, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Being labeled as
such by a court is only a formality and a convenient excuse for people
who want to thumb their nose at the law, and wish to ease their guilty
conscience, by trying to convince themselves that their activities
aren't really criminal because they haven't been caught yet..


No, it's a fact. Going around chasing speeders, j-walkers,
litterbugs etc etc and calling them criminals will change
nothing.


Nor will stating that a person clearly engaging in a particular
criminal activity isn't really a criminal because they haven't been
caught or convicted of it yet.


???, so you are saying that they are a suspect, good.
Cause they can't be a criminal unless they have been
convicted of doing that criminal act.


You'll have to start calling 4 out of 10 people
you know criminals then, because by a national survey
that's the percentage that speed.


Speeding is not considered a criminal offense.


Sure it is, going 100 mph is construed as a misdemeanor,
thus punishable by up to 1 year in the county jail and/or
fine.

Operating a radio
transmitter without a license is. Interesting that you lump illegally
operating a radio transmitter in with such trivial summary offenses as
jay-walking, speeding and simple littering.


You consider 1 year in jail and $1000.00 fine as trivial?


Those summary offenses do
not carry criminal penalties.


Both excessive speed and litter are misdemeanors and carry severe penalties

Violation of certain FCC rules, on the
other hand, does. Some people used to think the same thing about
theft of cable TV service. Until the law changed and got some teeth.
Now people who sell cable theft devices face serious jail time.


You can't, you are not a sheriff, judge & jury, to
which is the only way someone can be classified
a criminal, after being convicted, before that they
are only a suspect.

Maybe in a legal sense, but that's a poor justification for engaging
in criminal behavior, and saying; "you can't call me a criminal
because a jury didn't convict me yet".


Might be, but is correct.



A well known business man is accused by his ex-wife of
being a child molester. DA says that he won't prosecute
because lack of evidence and it doesn't look like he
really did anything. You start calling him a child molester
and criminal to friends and people that you know, that will
leave you open for a slander lawsuit, that's why you don't
run around accusing people of being criminals.


Ah, but there is a fine difference. A person accused is presumed
innocent until proven guilty.


Correct and you still go on defending calling people
criminals that haven't had their day in court? Doesn't
make sense.

But you know as well as I do that the
system is flawed, and many times guilty people walk for various
reasons.


Correct, and they can then be sued in civil court, but they
still won't be construed as a criminal.

Conversely, some innocent people are wrongly convicted. But
if I witness a crime, I don't need a jury to tell me that the perp is a
criminal


Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children? Admitting to an
unlawful activity is the same thing in principle to pleading guilty in
a trial. It may be "unofficial" but that's all I need to see to make
up my mind.


He might be one of those people that confess about everything,
it makes them fell important. That still doesn't make them a
criminal.


If I arbitrarily call you a federal lawbreaking criminal for violation
of FCC rules on freebanding or power levels, and I can't prove it, it
becomes libel (Assuming you really aren't doing it).

If, on the other hand, I monitor you doing it, or you brag to other
people that you do it, then you are engaging in a criminal activity.

To which I am just a suspect, not a criminal.


Only a court of law can refer to one as a criminal, and yes, the fact
that one has NOT been caught yet (as you tried and failed with) most
certainly abdicates them from being referred a criminal,,,,,again, the
fact that you disagree with our justice system is YOUR bad.

Yep, the old subversive ploy of thinking that "it's only guilty if
you're caught" mentality. Typical of all slackers and scofflaws.

Nope, it's called a guilty conscience, to which you can only
be called guilty in front of the lord all-mighty

Isn't that enough?


If you conscience bothers you, yes.


If you are of sound moral principles, then it should. If not, then you
start bordering on sociopathic tendencies.


Oh please Dave, that's crazy talk, sociopath tendencies.



, everything
else has to be done through a court of law.

You can't serve time and be branded a "criminal" until found guilty in
a court of law. But the fact that you might get away with a crime,
doesn't lessen what you truly are.

Playing word games doesn't hide that fact.


Playing with meanings doesn't hide the fact either Dave,
that's why they are called suspects, not criminals.


Once again, this is to accommodate a person's presumption of innocence
in the course of due process . And once again, if you witness a crime,
you don't need a jury to tell you what your senses already did.


Why is it that when a records check is done on a person,
they an arrest record & criminal record? why not just one?
Because it is just that, one is different from the other.


Oh, by the way, that ham operator using the foul language
and threating people, his callsign he was using was N3CVJ.
By you're logic, that alone should brand you a criminal.


No, since I did not do it, and the distance between us makes it very
unlikely that you heard me. Now, if I stated that I did it and/or you
witnessed ME doing it, and you could positively identify me, then you
could factually make that statement.


Gheez Dave, exactly what I've been saying with the exception
of the record of conviction.

Dave



Landshark


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Old April 14th 05, 12:38 PM
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Doesn't change the acts he may or may not done? If he's
done something wrong, found guilty then he's a criminal.
If he done nothing wrong, went to court and was found
not guilty, he should still be labeled a criminal because
he's being accused?


What if he's done the acts he was accused of, but because of an
inability for the state to prove it, or the credibility of the
witnesses becomes cloudy and he walks, what does THAT make him?


It make's him not guilty in a criminal court of law, sucks
but that the law.


In this case, I am not concerned with the determination of the law,
but with the truth. A criminal who beats the rap, is still a criminal
in my eyes. Note that I'm not talking about a truly innocent person
here, but one that I know is guilty and who beat the rap due to a
technicality or some other mitigating circumstance.

A criminal might fool the flawed legal system, but he still has to
face his maker one day.


Think before you answer, are you there? sitting in
the jury box? listening to the testimony? following
the judges orders concerning what type of evidence
you are going to hear? not formulating any opinion
until you and the rest of your fellow jurors are
deliberating the case? Of course not, so how can
you say because someone here is running a 1000
watts and talking on the freeband is a criminal?

If you witness someone killing another, do you need a jury verdict
before you know that that person is a murderer?


Yup, right now he's only a killer, but after the court
rules he's guilty, then he's a murderer.


What? Are you really going to play these word games?


I heard someone on 2 meters last night, swearing, threating
people, is he guilty of violating FCC rules?


Absolutely!


If the law defines a particular act as criminal, then if you engage in
that act, you are engaging in a criminal activity. Being labeled as
such by a court is only a formality and a convenient excuse for people
who want to thumb their nose at the law, and wish to ease their guilty
conscience, by trying to convince themselves that their activities
aren't really criminal because they haven't been caught yet..

No, it's a fact. Going around chasing speeders, j-walkers,
litterbugs etc etc and calling them criminals will change
nothing.


Nor will stating that a person clearly engaging in a particular
criminal activity isn't really a criminal because they haven't been
caught or convicted of it yet.


???, so you are saying that they are a suspect, good.
Cause they can't be a criminal unless they have been
convicted of doing that criminal act.


Again, you are wrapping yourself in the semantics of the law and
lulling yourself into a false sense of security. If you do the crime,
but don't get caught, you are still technically a criminal, whether or
not that "badge" can be legally applied to you.


You'll have to start calling 4 out of 10 people
you know criminals then, because by a national survey
that's the percentage that speed.


Speeding is not considered a criminal offense.


Sure it is, going 100 mph is construed as a misdemeanor,
thus punishable by up to 1 year in the county jail and/or
fine.


I'm not sure that's the law in every state. Even if it is though, your
earlier ratio of 4 out of 10 people no longer applies since most
speeders don't exceed the speed limit by more than 20 MPH


Operating a radio
transmitter without a license is. Interesting that you lump illegally
operating a radio transmitter in with such trivial summary offenses as
jay-walking, speeding and simple littering.


You consider 1 year in jail and $1000.00 fine as trivial?


I've never known anyone who went to jail for simple speeding,
jay-walking or littering. Now if the speeding charge was in
conjunction with something else like a DUI or a vehicular homicide,
well, that's a different story.


Those summary offenses do
not carry criminal penalties.


Both excessive speed and litter are misdemeanors and carry severe penalties


Not in my state. Littering carries a $300 max fine, and no jail time.


Maybe in a legal sense, but that's a poor justification for engaging
in criminal behavior, and saying; "you can't call me a criminal
because a jury didn't convict me yet".


Might be, but is correct.



A well known business man is accused by his ex-wife of
being a child molester. DA says that he won't prosecute
because lack of evidence and it doesn't look like he
really did anything. You start calling him a child molester
and criminal to friends and people that you know, that will
leave you open for a slander lawsuit, that's why you don't
run around accusing people of being criminals.


Ah, but there is a fine difference. A person accused is presumed
innocent until proven guilty.


Correct and you still go on defending calling people
criminals that haven't had their day in court? Doesn't
make sense.


If you are willingly engaging in a criminal activity, then you are
technically a criminal regardless whether you've been caught yet.
Again, you are arguing semantics. A conviction only makes it official
in the eyes of the law. Conversely, not being caught does not diminish
the severity of the criminal activity you have chosen to undertake.


But you know as well as I do that the
system is flawed, and many times guilty people walk for various
reasons.


Correct, and they can then be sued in civil court, but they
still won't be construed as a criminal.


I don't want to get side tracked by the seeming conflict in the
evidentiary methods to determine civil liability versus criminal
liability. If one is cleared of a criminal charge, then they should
not be liable civilly either. But we both know that this is not the
case. In the O.J Simpson case, he was criminally found not guilty, but
in a civil court he was found to be responsible for the "wrongful
death" of Ron Goldman and Nicole. So here we have a guy who's not a
criminal, but still responsible for the death of 2 people. Logically
that just doesn't make sense.


Conversely, some innocent people are wrongly convicted. But
if I witness a crime, I don't need a jury to tell me that the perp is a
criminal


Did the alleged "child molester" brag to a bunch of people on an
internet forum that he did indeed molest children? Admitting to an
unlawful activity is the same thing in principle to pleading guilty in
a trial. It may be "unofficial" but that's all I need to see to make
up my mind.


He might be one of those people that confess about everything,
it makes them fell important. That still doesn't make them a
criminal.


It does if he was telling the truth.


If I arbitrarily call you a federal lawbreaking criminal for violation
of FCC rules on freebanding or power levels, and I can't prove it, it
becomes libel (Assuming you really aren't doing it).

If, on the other hand, I monitor you doing it, or you brag to other
people that you do it, then you are engaging in a criminal activity.

To which I am just a suspect, not a criminal.


You would be clearly committing a criminal act. Again, I don't need a
jury verdict to convince me.

If you conscience bothers you, yes.


If you are of sound moral principles, then it should. If not, then you
start bordering on sociopathic tendencies.


Oh please Dave, that's crazy talk, sociopath tendencies.


What's crazy about it? Sociopaths exhibit a clear lack of conscience.
That is well documented. But like most things in life, human
psychology is not a black and white issue. Most of us have varying
degrees of personality traits which fall on a scale somewhere. We are
considered "normal" if those traits fall into line with established
norms. A sociopath has little remorse, or guilt for the things that
they do. Other people are troubled by the simplest transgression that
they may inadvertently do. Someone who falls closer to the sociopath
on the conscience scale (Sociopathic tendencies) would be less
troubled by transgressions against society.

Once again, this is to accommodate a person's presumption of innocence
in the course of due process . And once again, if you witness a crime,
you don't need a jury to tell you what your senses already did.


Why is it that when a records check is done on a person,
they an arrest record & criminal record? why not just one?
Because it is just that, one is different from the other.


Exactly. Any time a police officer is called to your house, an
incident report is filed. Every time a person is arrested a report is
filed. That is just SOP.

I think you are still missing the point a bit. I'm not talking about
accusing an innocent person of a crime. I'm talking about people who
are clearly and willingly engaging in criminal activity, who try to
justify their criminal behavior by claiming that they're not really
criminals because they've managed to evade prosecution. As if that
makes it ok. But the act is the same whether they're caught or not.


Oh, by the way, that ham operator using the foul language
and threating people, his callsign he was using was N3CVJ.
By you're logic, that alone should brand you a criminal.


No, since I did not do it, and the distance between us makes it very
unlikely that you heard me. Now, if I stated that I did it and/or you
witnessed ME doing it, and you could positively identify me, then you
could factually make that statement.


Gheez Dave, exactly what I've been saying with the exception
of the record of conviction.


But the difference is that I'm not here bragging about all the people
I jam on a nightly basis on ham radio. I'm not involved in criminal
activities. The people I make reference to as "federal criminals" are
those who admit to running in violation of FCC rules. I have never
accused anyone who hasn't claimed the same.

Yes, it's deliberately done with a bit of a shock value. It's to
counter the rampant mindset that someone isn't really doing anything
wrong simply because the FCC is too incompetent and understaffed to
catch them yet.

Dave
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Yes, it's deliberately done with a bit of a shock value. It's to
counter the rampant mindset that someone isn't really doing anything
wrong simply because the FCC is too incompetent and understaffed to
catch them yet.

Dave


Well Dave, I'm not going to continue, it's fruitless. In
closing you can go on your crusade against the FCC
scofflaws, but their "crime" as you like to put it is
very minor. If they are using Freeband or amps, their
actions are much less of a consequence. Litterbugs
add tons of garbage that costs millions a year to clean.
Speeders cost millions a year to enforce against and kill
hundreds of people while causing accidents because of speeding.
I just find that there are more important things to
worry about than someone that's using power or talking
on the freeband. I worry about speeders maybe hitting my
kids, drunk driver hitting someone I care about, drugs in
my kids school etc etc, not about labeling someone a
criminal for using a linear or freeband. You can go around
and see sociopath and anarchist around every corner, I fore
one am going to worry about what directly will affect my
family, not what is illegal and not going to affect virtually
anyone such as freeband use and linear.

Landshark


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