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Originally Posted by topnotch, standup guy
Anyone smart enough to fart without shitting his pants can see the difference between this and a forum devoted to file sharing..
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You say that.. but have you seen the people in charge of our government?
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Originally Posted by crucifissio
what is bullshit is the false fear based on the false presumption that somebody would actually risk his/her own freedom to file a false complaint that will certainly land him in prison..
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what is bullshit is your false belief.
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Originally Posted by crucifissio
"In the United States, under Federal law, the general perjury statute provides for a sentence of up to 5 years in prison, 18 USC 1621."
Are you saying the law does not apply for these false complaints?
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Well you're failing to consider that the law rarely applies to people who actually commit perjury (because most prosecutors do choose not to pursue prosecuting them for any number of reasons.). And of those they they do choose to prosecute, it typically ends in failure:
"A perjury defendant can persuasively argue that they testified honestly, but perhaps from faulty memory, in many cases. Perjury charges in criminal cases are also rare. In 1996, US Sentencing Commission statistics indicated that in federal cases, only 86 of the 42,436 convicted criminal defendants were found guilty of perjury, encouraging perjury or bribing a witness. " source
All they would have to say it they "thought" it looked like something they recognized from somewhere else.