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Time to lookup ERAD Inc. online. Fun times ahead!
I'm already spinning up a comprehensive FOIA request with MuckRock.com. Feel free to reply to my comment if anyone would like to collaborate.
Don't forget!
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Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#512Earlier quoted context omitted.
can you recommend a book for someone who wants to understand more about the US - IE what the declaration of independence and constitution are, and how the US got to where it is now? covering history and politics and anything else useful to really grok these types of discussions?
I really can't. That's not to say that they don't exist, but I'm not familiar with any single book that I know I could say, "look here," and feel good about it. My own knowledge has accumulated across many different sources over many years. I am also a bit distrustful of more modern sources that want to project the nation's founding one way or another for contemporary purposes. Any such book must look at British/Colo…
I appreciate your response! knowing that there's definitely no one single unbiased good book/source is actually a very useful thing to keep in mind - I'm currently reading "a peoples history of the united states" and pretty quickly realized that whilst it contains a lot of information, it's (necessarily?) written in a very particular tone.
As a recent transplant to the US I actually like the idea of having my own copy of the declaration and constitution, for both the actual information and kind of symbolic novelty of being here.
Thanks!
Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#513Welcome to the post-Reagan era, kids. This stuff really took off during the 80s war on drugs. (which is about as successful as the war on alcohol was - for gangsters dealing) If only Thatcherism / Reaganism never happened... (and Laffer, Friedman and all the other related right wing propaganda that's been catapulted down our throats) I suppose things will eventually get bad enough that people will eventually realize…
Have you got a specific beef with Friedman, or are you just generally complaining about prominent conservatives from the 80s? What position did he take that would support civil asset forfeiture?
No, you're right. Just complaining about right wing thuggery in general :-)
Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#514Welcome to the post-Reagan era, kids. This stuff really took off during the 80s war on drugs. (which is about as successful as the war on alcohol was - for gangsters dealing) If only Thatcherism / Reaganism never happened... (and Laffer, Friedman and all the other related right wing propaganda that's been catapulted down our throats) I suppose things will eventually get bad enough that people will eventually realize…
Is Nixon nowhere to be found?
I'm pretty sure Nixon wouldn't even cut it as a Democrat today. Too liberal. "Start what? Environmental Protection Agency? Are you kidding..."
Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#515Welcome to the post-Reagan era, kids. This stuff really took off during the 80s war on drugs. (which is about as successful as the war on alcohol was - for gangsters dealing) If only Thatcherism / Reaganism never happened... (and Laffer, Friedman and all the other related right wing propaganda that's been catapulted down our throats) I suppose things will eventually get bad enough that people will eventually realize…
Citation needed (re. Friedman). Also, could we please stop blaming Thatcher and Reagan for undesirable political trends that started before them, and continued accelerating throughout successive left and right wing administrations in both countries?
They had lots-o-help, but they are the poster children. Er, very old "children", I suppose.
Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#516Welcome to the post-Reagan era, kids. This stuff really took off during the 80s war on drugs. (which is about as successful as the war on alcohol was - for gangsters dealing) If only Thatcherism / Reaganism never happened... (and Laffer, Friedman and all the other related right wing propaganda that's been catapulted down our throats) I suppose things will eventually get bad enough that people will eventually realize…
So, down-voters, the War On Drugs DIDN'T get a name and kick into high gear in the 80s???
Or perhaps the WOD was a liberal plot, only pushed through past poor old Reagan due to his fear of his veto being overturned if he dared vote against it???
Re: Police use new device to seize money in bank accounts or on prepaid cards
#517Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you got a specific beef with Friedman, or are you just generally complaining about prominent conservatives from the 80s? What position did he take that would support civil asset forfeiture?
No, you're right. Just complaining about right wing thuggery in general :-)
Ah, well you might want to stick to a more defensible complaint - because two sentences is all it took to make you look like an uninformed loon.