[EAS] EAS Ignorance

[Tim Stoffel]

Clay Frenwald wrote:

To which I say - 

What happened to the old saying 'Ignorance of the law is no excuse'??

Clay

Actually today, with the hundreds of thousands of laws we have on the books, sometimes ignorance of the law has worked as a defensible excuse. I'm sure all of us have run afoul of such laws as not manufacturing cigarettes in a basement in Wisconsin, or taking a lion into a movie theater in Baltimore ;) It goes back to what I was saying about all the laws we have in this country. In this case though, I would have to agree with the consensus here that it is a person who simply wants to shirk some of the burdensome responsibility imposed by law (and perhaps a little public responsibility in this case) to make it easier. This is just human nature, and it is especially true if $$ are involved. And sometimes, this is why laws have come to exist.

Tim Stoffel