'Federal Police Power'

When you click on the link to this story "Federal Police Power" you will see what the founders of our country want the power in the Federal government to be limited. But over the last 200 years especially in the last 50 the Federal government has passed so many laws, a normal everyday citizen doesn't know which way to turn. Here is an excerpt from the story;

The Cato book points to Edward Hanousek Jr., who in 1994 was sentenced to six months in prison, six months in a halfway house and six months under supervised release, when an independent contractor working under him accidentally broke an oil pipe while operating a backhoe on an Alaskan railroad project. He was prosecuted under the federal Clean Water Act.

Another story at Reason.com also discusses how the Federal government has gotten out of hand. It also mentions the excerpt that I quoted above. Washington’s Biggest Crime Problem was written in April of 2004.

"When Congress creates a federal penalty for actions traditionally prosecuted at the state level, it violates the core constitutional principle of federalism, which prohibits Congress from legislating on local matters."

With a little research one can find out for themselves that Congress is butting in where it doesn't belong. I have to correct myself, according the article over 40% of the 3300 federal crimes have been enacted within the last 30 years!! That means from the time I was 8 years old, Congress has produced so many laws that we as citizens of the once great United States don't really know if we have broken a federal law in our day to day life.

Today when someone goes to prison there is a good chance that they are going to come out of it with enough knowledge to be a bigger criminal than when they went into it. Now this doesn't mean they will, just means they have the capability to.

I guess at this point I only have one question.

When does the revolution start? The second one that is?