Originally Posted by potter

I love people that use edge scenarios like this to try and prove a point.

The .gov did nothing wrong in this case. Yes, it sucks for the family - but that's life. Ignorance is NOT an excuse for breaking the law. The government cannot simply start ignoring laws because the criminals didn't know about the law, and tried to make things right. Because then the whole system is fucked and there isn't any point to it all. Think of someone stealing something, they get caught, so the criminal says "oops, I didn't know" and returns the item. So now that's an excuse? Now that makes it ok? No, it doesn't. The law NEEDS to be black and white. You break it, you pay the price. You start creating a grey area for people like the above, and all that does is open up a grey area for serious criminals. Which is not acceptable.