Subj : Re: The Big Lie
To   : JEFF THIELE
From : Mike Powell
Date : Tue Oct 11 2022 16:04:00

>  MP> Unless you or Lee works for a drug cartel, those citizens are not like
>  MP> us.

> In some ways they are not, but in some ways they are. Fentanyl-smuggling
> aside, you might have more in common with some of them than you do with
> non-fentanyl-smuggling citizens. For starters, they're US citizens.

In your stated scenario here, so are the non-smuggling-citizens.

>  MP> Carrying contraband into the US is illegal so, despite the fact that
>  MP> these citizens are crossing at legal checkpoints, they are crossing
>  MP> illegally, another way that they are not like me and, presumably, not
>  MP> like you or Lee.

> They are not crossing illegally; they are smuggling. Have you ever taken your
> own snacks into a movie theater?

Actually I have not.  They are crossing while committing an illegal act,
Lawyer Jeff.  People crossing illegally are also committing an illegal act,
hence the illegal part.  I don't see an actual difference.


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