Basically, I call laws like the above a "Minority Report Approach" to legislation, based on the Tom Cruise movie Minority Report. The premise of the movie was that three "pre-cognitives" could see into the future and determine a crime before it was committed and arrest the individual before they engaged in the criminal activity. Only one problem, the "pre-cogs" didn't always agree so the "system" would cover up the mistakes of the pre-cogs. Also, the movie raises an interesting philosophy that since an act was not committed yet, could they be found truly guilty of the crime "before it even happened?" In Tom Cruise's case, he demonstrated that the future was not always certain. In the above California Legislation, California Senators are attempting to force someone to perform an act before there is even a crime, as required by our Constitution. But...this is family court right? Now remember that child support is merely a civil debt and no crime has been committed leading up to the order of such debt to be paid to another party.
For those of you unfamiliar with the Constitution, the document that
restricts governmental powers, there was an Amendment that completed
Ratification on December 6, 1865. Under US Const. Amendment 13 Sec. 1 "Neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within
the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." Either California isn't part of the United States, or California and other states
are trying to take more authority than what they actually have. The
The U.S. Supreme Court, in United States v. Kozminski (1988), has defined involuntary servitude as "compulsory service by the use of physical restraint or injury, or by the use or threat of coercion through legal process."
Essentially the program as defined above, as well
as the many court orders forcing individuals to participate in
government welfare programs without compensation because there exists a
civil debt or other civil judgment, is nothing more than a return to
the slave trade and indentured servitude that was outlawed just a mere
142 years ago.
