Ep. 869 Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
The federal government has extended its authority into so many areas, and employed statutory language so vague, that ordinary people have found themselves criminals without having done anything they believed to be unlawful. Harvey Silverglate has observed this trend firsthand over the course of his long career in the law, and he joins me to discuss how bad it is, and what we can do.
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| 0:00.0 | The Tom Woods Show, episode 869. |
| 0:03.3 | Prepare to set fire to the index card of allowable opinion. |
| 0:07.9 | Your daily dose of liberty education starts here, the Tom Woods Show. |
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| 0:25.3 | free trial plus an automatic 25 smacker discount. Hey everybody. Tom Woods here. One of my |
| 0:31.6 | favorite book titles of all time is the title of the book we're going to be talking about today. |
| 0:36.6 | Three Felonies a day, |
| 0:39.0 | subtitle how the feds target the innocent. |
| 0:41.9 | Written by Harvey Silverglate. |
| 0:44.8 | Harvey Silverglate holds degrees from Princeton and from Harvard Law School. |
| 0:49.6 | He's an advocate for civil liberties and he's an attorney, writer, and non-profit activist. |
| 0:55.2 | His legal career has ranged widely, has included drug prosecutions, draft and riot cases in the 60s and 70s, |
| 1:01.9 | bank and securities fraud, bribery and extortion, espionage, tax evasion, police misconduct, |
| 1:08.1 | murder and manslaughter, habeas corpus proceedings, money laundering, and desertion. |
| 1:13.1 | And in this book, he talks about a very, very disturbing trend that he began to observe partway through his legal career. |
| 1:21.9 | And it's very important, and you're going to want to pick this up. |
| 1:24.8 | Of course, I'm linking to it at tomwoods.com slash 869. Harvey Silverglate, |
| 1:29.0 | welcome to the show. Good to be here. All right. This has got to be one of the most compelling |
| 1:34.0 | titles ever. If you thought of this, then you're an absolute marketing genius. Three felonies a day. |
| 1:39.5 | That's just a beautiful, just a beautiful title. I have some specific cases I want to discuss with you, but |
| 1:44.3 | before doing that, why don't you take a minute to explain what's the overall thesis here of the |
| 1:49.0 | book? What's gone wrong in the legal system and with statutory language and everything else? |
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