Now it is time for john stossel. Kacey anthony, didnt she chloroform her kid and go out partying but they were acquitted yesterday of lawyers. And some even say that its not my job to determine if someones else here in the, every american deserves a defense. So they write hard for some horrible people, child molesters, muggers, rapists, how can they live with themselves . Heres one of those despicable peoples. In fact, he is head of the association of criminal defense lawyers. So how can you live with yourself . I have been a criminal defense lawyer my entire life in my entire career and im proud of it and the founders of this country had a brilliant idea and the power to prosecutor condemned and kill and to stigmatize this, that person should never stand alone. They should have a defense lawyer to bandwidth than. When the fetus were to go down, you are just comfortable with all that . Uncomfortable with the idea that everyone deserves to have someone with the government to the test of whether or not they can prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt and im comfortable that we have a bigger idea in this country. This is a country that is over criminalized and we need to have john over criminalized making too many laws and to many people in jail . We will get to that. And early in her career hilly clinton was a defense lawyer and recently discovered a recording of her laughing and bragging that she got a reduced sentence for a man accused of raping a 12yearold girl. And she apparently thought the guy was hoping that she laughs about his passing a polygraph or in an and shouldnt she be ashamed of that . I havent seen the whole interview and i dont know what it was. And we need to have someone advocate for us. To prevent the lowest moment from defining the rest of their lives and all lawyers, you notice with surveys and at this point we are arresting 14 Million People per year and they need to have somebody with them. I should point out that journalists come quite close to the bottom of that. We have to live with those caricatures and thats a reality. John despite our hospital beginning, i invited you on our show because i think you make good points. Its natural when something bad happens want government to do something to top it in too many people the obvious thing to do is to pass a law and politicians do it all the time. They passed more every year and now america has so many criminal laws the government cant even count how many. We are buried in this. Politicians say they can solve all of our problems with lots, but no, they cannot. And so that is the criminal code. We made some excellent points, obviously. Just to give you a perspective because numbers really do paint the picture. In 1900 we had about 100 federal criminal and today we have almost 5000 and if you count the criminal provisions that are buried in the regulations, its more than 300,000 and as you said, they havent even been able to count them. 2. 1 million is the number of people who are imprisoned in this country as we did here tonight. We are the number one incarcerate or in the world in terms of per capita than actual numbers. More than china and more than russia and more than every country that we know of except north korea because we dont know about north korea. But its shameful and its costing us a fortune. There are very few people left in this country that dont have a loved one or a neighbor or a coworker or a friend who has had some brush with the criminal law and we now have between 65 and 70 Million People in this country with criminal records. The biggest crime is driving without a license. Absolutely. Most of those people are not being charged without driving without a license as any other reason. But there is a criminal offense and so because of that we are going to impede their opportunity for the rest of their lives. The other thing that we have to do is stop using the criminal law for every single thing. What we have done is use criminal law. The reason for the 2 million and shows mostly because people try to alter their consciousness by using drugs and people like oreilly who showed the more popular want tougher lies in tremont and people are so broke. I dont care if you were addicted or not and i dont care whether you have seven pills or not, these lead to death and that is provable. If you sell them we are going to spend a lot of time in prison. If we have prison overcrowding, we will do more with prisons. Cemented waste of Human Resources and it is an economic waste. Maybe crime is down because we lock up so many people. In fact, in those states and in texas, by the way, the states which has an over incarceration problem, they reduce the prison population in a same time they reduce their crime. Hes right about that, thank you, norman. Its depressing thinking about peoples lives being wrecked. So lets lighten things up and talk about the emergency ordinance, yes, such a lot really exist, after idiot politicians actually believe this video depicting a supposedly giant hairy ape known as sasquatch or bigfoot was real. And they pass a law that makes it illegal for anyone to kill a sasquatch. The lot is also the title and he writes about that and says that the useless law is actually enacted. So how do we get the bigfoot law . There are two possible reasons and one is a sasquatch protection and the politicians arent that dumb. In this case they may not have been, they may have been worried about people because it was either that or they wont protect her and trim production from people that do believe in that but wanted to run around the forest to hand on something which seems like a bad idea. Act of 1856 comments, still on the books, no artificial fertilizer at the time. It turns out a great place to get fertilizer is bird poop and a great place to get it is on islands where seabirds have lived undisturbed for thousands of years. So if you can imagine some of those islands had deposits up to 50 meters. John id rather not imagine it. [laughter] so they pass a law that said if you encounter one of these, you can claim it and then it will effectively become part of the United States at least temporarily so that you can mine this down. John going to take any furbearing animal buddies have been meant or other explosive compound. Is that right . Guess, thats right. This is for you thought caddy shack was fiction, but in fact, it happens. You have a category, the government not minding its own business. Would you need to get a ridiculous law and an example quickly, go to any state federal criminal code and look under the section that is usually called offensive against decencies and morals and youre guaranteed to find something that is completely ridiculous. In the criminal code in the books in idaho, laws against fornication. Yes, thats right. So no one fornicate cinemark. [laughter] these laws are harmless, right . Are you confident that someone will not use one of these laws to such harassment . John no, i am not confident. But there is one place where there is some hope that people are rising up and that is minnesota. Minnesota last year, the governor had a program and they would go out and try to make lists of laws that were outdated or that they didnt need for some other reason like it was covered for federal law or something similar. So they managed to find or 1100 laws and they decided that they really didnt need them and they repealed all of them. 1100 laws gone. That is a start. John for every law repealed, verify at once. To keep this conversation going and coming up, let us know what you think. A rich guy living in this fancy apartment. Hes dewdney and he just got put in jail. Also, not all lawyers are evil, but they are the good guys that write to the rest do and we have that coming on. The government tried to take her home. Iraqi government wanted to bulldoze my home so someone else can live on my land. John i thought your home is your castle. The government can just take her home and give it to someone a. Big government uses a lot of things that seem to violate what is in here, the constitution. Unfortunately a few lawyers will take your case and one is Scott Bullock of the institute for justice. When i heard about your firm and it seemed like a good idea, libertarians getting together, i said, are you kidding me . The answer to anything can be more lawsuit. Well, it can be because there is a vital need to have americans right protected and they are guaranteed in the constitution and they have to be protected by an engaged court system where judges actually police legislatures and executive Branch Officials in order to bring them in to make sure Constitutional Rights are protected and limits are respected. That is what the institute for justice is all about. Is a relatively new group that you have. Thats right, we have about a 70 track record of striking down laws or shaming legislatures and not to try to repeal the laws after retirement spam. John and then we had this case about taking away someones home. Thats right, the domain was designed to be used for public uses like roads or bridges and not for private development projects. Taking this for the developer, they just put the hometown . Now there is another the field filled with hellcats and demolition debris and that was a great example of when you do Public Interest and raise awareness. Not only are you arguing the court of law but by the court of Public Opinion and as a result of that, we have seen an enormous backlash against the decision. A is a lot of good has come out of this decision. John so you had another case of Eminent Domain. Jefferson said that you have to be eternally vigilant in the fight for liberty because of governments are not going to stop violating liberty. So we are starting this the Eminent Domain abuse coming back john the lawyers against you say that we dont have to provide this on how we plan to use the land, they say the redevelopment. And the economic engine of the casinos in Atlantic City is vital to the success of the state. Absolutely outrageous, all of the Atlantic City to knows are going bankrupt. And they have no idea what theyre going to do. They just say that we want to take it now and we will figure it out later on and thats exactly what they did. And now nine years after the Supreme Court decision, there is no new tax revenue and nothing to show. The lawsuits that his institute files that make it hard for the little guy to start a business. All i wanted was a chance to earn an honest living but the government said i could not. The government calls us allies. John a van driver and a tour guide and a hairdresser. What they all have in common is they want to pursue an honest living free of interference. But what we too often our government is teaming up with Large Business interests to try to stop people from starting a taxicab company and it is a marriage of political power and private things. Now there is a new one called animal massage . Other animals can get it, but its typically for horses, this is where athletes get regular massages and horses also benefit from having massages, but arizona says you may not do this for money unless you become a licensed veterinarian and he spent hundreds of thousands of dollars and have years of school and so even if people would go to that school, they dont teach it in the vet schools themselves. All this is about is lining the pockets, keeping them out of doing a legitimate business and apparently the horses and im great at the institute makes these videos. But isnt this a little too much . The work that we do is very serious. But that doesnt mean we cant have a little bit of fun and be happy doing it. Coming up a problem that is free. In new york state, were changing the way we do business, with startup ny. Weve created tax free zones throughout the state. And startup ny companies will be investing hundreds of millions of dollars in jobs and infrastructure. Thanks to startup ny, businesses can operate tax free for 10 years. No property tax. No business tax. And no sales tax. Which means more growth for your business, and more jobs. Its not just business as usual. See how new york can help your business grow, at startup. Ny. Gov we bought stuff from you and we had it checked out and it is counterfeit. We bought it right here. You didnt buy anything for me. That was stossel the Consumer Report and i spent years confronting liars and cheats. I was frustrated because i couldnt punish the bad guy. So i was bad when lawyers got involved that suit the cheaters. And then i realized that often lawsuits do more harm than good and they take forever and they cost a fortune and sometimes the victim would tell me that i just got ripped off by my lawyer. The promise of a solution by lawsuit is just not what its caught up to be. So now im glad theres a cool alternative called change. Org. Yes, its the Worlds Largest petition platform and we empower everyday people to create change on the causes that they care about and we now have more than 70 Million People using it until almost one in our on every topic you can imagine. John how are you the biggest . Is all of these others things like craigslist and angies list and what did you do that about 70 million . The heart of what we do comes from peoples personal stories. Some people talk about the things that matter to them and what they are struggling with in their lives and then they use the platforms to mobilize able around them and share those petitions and create dialogs of the people who have the power to change them. And we do see it working everyday. John and she posted some of their victories. Here are three of them. A pennsylvania girl battling a deadly disease in serious need of a Lung Transplant. They kicked her off the team for being a girl. Thats right, shes an 11yearold girl from pennsylvania and she was playing football for whole life and then they decided girls could no longer play and she started a petition and she had hundreds of thousands of people signout. And little do you know, they decided to let her play football and not just her, but every girl who wants to play. Images conjured change. Org . Thats right, she shared it with her friends and family for his and then from there people were mobilized. The girl needed a Lung Transplant and the law at the time said children cannot receive transplants from adult. Thats right, they can only receive transplants from other children even though their bodies are large enough to take an adult long. And so sarahs mom started a petition on change when she had only two weeks to live and she was able to mobilize people effectively and actually get a judge to agree to give sarah and another boy a Lung Transplant they both live and now the law has actually been changed and children under 12 can be eligible. John the voice boy scouts now will accept gays. We saw 124 different editions over 13 months signed by 1. 8 milln people. It wasnt just one petition on our website but many campaigns overtime and millions of people fighting this battle and is partnering with other organizations to make this happen. John a fox station covered this. Get to know your neighbors. Family came home from a trip to find this letter explaining the library violating an ordinance which doesnt allow structures in the front yards of singlefamily homes. John and i think it was put there to keep people from putting cars in their front yard. Another citizen who heard about this started a petition on his behalf and it took 33 signatures for that to convince the city to change the ordinance and let them keep this on his front lawn. And youve gotten people out of jail. 267,000 citizens . Thats right, they had been in prison for 10 years and those witnesses had said that they had testimony that was not accurate and there was no other evidence against them. After this the lawyers were just put in jail and they would basically not retry him and then we had another one yesterday and he was released. Thank you, jennifer. And coming up, our studio audience worth a thousand dollars to the person who submits the stupidest lawyer driven warning label and here meant to be stuck on a bicycle helmet says warning for decoration only, it will not prevent injury. More is coming up. So i can reach ally bank 24 7, but there are no branches . 24 7 its just im a little reluctant to try new things. Whats wrong with trying new things . 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Com john if you have the nerve to try to manufacture something in america, then probably will try to protect yourself from lawsuits by adding detailed warnings about what might happen and so how stupid do these labels dead . The wacky warning label contest, he gives a thousand dollars to the person who submits the stupidest warning label. So who wins this year . We are reviewing lots of entries. Bob has narrowed it down to five and he has agreed to let you, as our studio audience, pick the worst. Whoever cemented the label gets the thousand dollars. In a country when you can sue someone while youre dunking the ball and then lockwood of 15,000 from anyone who makes a product is looking forward on a football helmet it says warning, no helmet system can protect you from serious brain or neck injuries and to avoid these do not engage in the sport of football. And so theyre warning you not to use their products. They say on this thing, the careful, this will not prevent injuries. Yes, that is pretty obvious. By the way we call the companies and the football helmet, the company didnt respond on the bicycle helmet they had no comment and to what is that . This is a little cell phone battery booster and a growing trend