This situation has been a long time in coming, and I've been angry for years at the state of the U.S. Code and the absolutely arcane state of it currently.  Instead of going off on a rant about how we A. need to burn the U.S. Code back to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights and start over and B. need to prevent lawyers from becoming legislators (inherent conflict of interest), I'll just present this revealing piece with minimum commentary.

For your consideration: http://www.mindfully.org/Farm/2003/Everything-Is-Illegal1esp03.htm