On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 23:28:15 +0100, Stephanie Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> time. Each subsequent offense is worth 10 years, and the rules were > supposedly retroactive, meaning they could get you for not having > documentation even before you were required to keep it. I'd like to call bullshit on that. Democracies have checks in place to avoid retroactive legislation. As I refuse to believe the USA to have a system silly enough to allow this kind of legislation I looked it up. And indeed retroactive legislation is "Prohibited by Article I section 9 (applying to federal law) and section 10 (applying to state law) of the U.S. Constitution." <URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive_legislation > - Andreas, watching FUD at work. -- <URL: http://www.solitude.dk/ > Commentary on media, communication, culture and technology. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
