Forum: Community Center


Subject: Open Letter to Tim Choate...

Jack D. Kammerer opened this issue on Nov 01, 2002 ยท 5 posts


edriver posted Sun, 03 November 2002 at 5:14 AM

I aint tryin to ruffle nobody's feathers...but I think I'd like to post an opinon on the "controversy". Ya know....I live in a country where there's an amendment to the Bill of Rights that protects me and others from being prosecuted for breaking a newly formed law because we committed what would not be a crime back before it was against the law. I think it's called habeus corpus (spelling?). In essence, if they passed a new law today that made it illegal to purchase more than ten dollars worth of gas at once then they couldn't turn around and arrest me for filling up my tank yesterday because it wasn't illegal yesterday. This is my warped analogy of restricting merchants from the merchant's forum because of a new "law" implemented recently but being made "retroactive" rather than "from this day forth, new merchants....(etc., etc.,)". The new rule would be alot easier to swallow if it weren't cascaded to merchants that signed up years ago who did nothing wrong all that time but now have been found to be in violation of a new code of conduct and are being penalized for it.