Statements Related to A 1986 US law practically decrees that computer programmers cannot be independent entrepreneurs

• The City Attorney (Carmen A. Trutanich) and Law Enforcement officials are trying to increase raids and regulation of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in Los Angeles (1+/0- justifications)
• In 1977 Iowa prosecutors passed prosecuting a white suspect (the brother-in-law of the fire captain) who was seen at the murder scene for conspiring and framing a black boy unrelated to the crime. They successfully coached witnesses and put him away for 35 years. (1+/0- justifications)
• The US pledge of allegiance did not contain the words "under god" until 1954 when the Catholic organization Knights of Columbus lobbied congress to add the language by law (1+/0- justifications)
• The US has passed a law requiring it to support Israel (1+/0- justifications)
• Sharia law is dangerous (1+/0- justifications)
• The body of e-mails is safer from law enforcement scrutiny than the addresses and subject (1+/0- justifications)
• US law enforcement backdoor entry into Gmail enabled Chinese hackers to access the system (1+/0- justifications)
• The Apple iPad is suited to unsophisticated computer users (1+/0- justifications)
• US federal criminal law forbids torture (1+/0- justifications)
• DEA is busting marijuana growers despite President Obama's promise that the federal government would not pursue those in compliance with state law (1+/0- justifications)
• Federal criminal law only forbids the commission of torture outside the United States (1+/0- justifications)
• American law does not rely upon biblical law (1+/0- justifications)
• Senator Patrick Moynihan, D-NY, introduced and passed a tax law that seriously inhibited the ability of computer programmers to work as independent contracters, all in order to give IBM a tax break for its overseas operations (1+/0- justifications)
• The Constitution of the Confederate States of America explicitly provided that no law would be passed to deny or impair property in slaves (2+/0- justifications)
• Jim Crow common law (e.g., racially restrictive covenants) prevented blacks from freely buying property until 1948 (1+/0- justifications)
• An Oklahoma law protects doctors from lawsuits for lieing to patients when doing so might prevent the patient from aborting a fetus (1+/0- justifications)
• In the U.S. a different law applies to the poor as applies to the rich (1+/0- justifications)
• Adherants of the "sovereign citizen" theory have killed 8 law enforcement officers in the United States between Jan. 2008 and Dec. 2010 (1+/0- justifications)
• The common law of agency dictates that one authorized by another to make statements on behalf of the latter does make statements for the latter (0+/0- justifications)
• Recent law graduates are increasingly starting solo practices (1+/0- justifications)
• Ken Thompson advocated criminalizing unauthorized computer access (1+/0- justifications)
• The 1033 Program allows local and state U.S. law enforcement agencies to receive left-over fedreral military equipment (3+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is paramilitarizing local and state US law enforcement agencies (3+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies more dangerous towards their public (4+/0- justifications)
• The federal government is making local and state US law enforcement agencies less capable of performing their work (4+/0- justifications)
• The federal governments 1033 program has transferred $2.6B worth of military equipment to local and state law enforcement agencies since 1997 (1+/0- justifications)
• Old testamaent biblical law requires that a person who kills another person be put to death (1+/0- justifications)
• Biblical old testament law requires that if someone cause a mother to miscarry that the person pay a fine, but does not require that the person be put to death (2+/0- justifications)
• Old testament biblical law does not see a fetus as a person (3+/0- justifications)