"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in
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> Just because you don't agree with a law, you
> don't have the right to break it.

So founders of the US were wrong and had no right to violate the King's
laws? The US should accept its punishment and rejoin the UK as a colony?
Rights transcend laws. If a law says you can't speak your mind, the right
enumerated by (not granted by!) the first amendment overrules the law.

> She did something out of greed, got caught, paid her time. Move on.
> She let greed take the place of common sense.

Define "greed". Everyone has self-interest. Everything you do is guided by
it, even so-called altruism.

Martha's plight was a witch hunt, pure and simple, instituted by greedy
federal prosecutors looking for ways to further their careers. But unlike
Martha's, their greed was sated only by hurting others.

In the bizarre world of the SEC and FTA, common sense isn't. Insider
trading is an Alice in Wonderland bureacratic ruling (not a law except in
that Congress has abdicated its power to bureacrats to avoid accountability
by the electorate).