Re: 'Plenty of notices'
>> Ignorance of the Law, is no excuse.
People keep quoting this as a fact. But really? It's one of those opinions masquerading as fact.
Are individuals supposed to go through parliament/senate/congress meeting notes every day and figure out all the nuances of what has changed in the law? What has been repealed? What has been amended?
"You didn't know that coughing in public is a death sentence now?? Tough. This law might be unreasonable, you can fight to change it, but until then the law is the law! Ignorance of the law is not excuse. Happy hanging!"
And it isn't an excuse, it is a fact. Ignorance of the law exists, I for one certainly cannot claim I know all and every bit of it. Can you?
The term "excuse" is also chosen to give it a pejorative flavour - it could have been "ignorance of the law is no defence" but no, shame up coz I'm better than you ignorant person...
And what about innocent until guilty? Her statement is very likely true, that it is in an apple of US origin. Therefore she was not importing it.
America has really fucked up - the very values apparently being protected in all those wars and missions are being trampled upon on their own soil.
The terrorists might not have won the battle on backward values, but they seem to have won the war. :(
Ultimately fairness has failed here. So you know what? Quoting "ignorance of the law is not an excuse" is not a valid excuse for failing to serve justice.