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You may as well name these people, to save us the effort of digging it up
It's easy enough to google and find out.
It's even easier to type the two words, "Philip Anschutz"
New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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There's an inmate in LA County jail who has been there 9 years awaiting trial on attempted murder. He is completely and totally institutionalized. A very nice guy but intimidating. If he didn't go in a killer, he sure as hell should be ready to take a life by now. If someone robbed me of 9 years of my life, I'd make it my mission to rob them of any joy in their life.
You mean, you are going to be politically active? "They" is an abstract entity, a set of rules agreed upon by your community - in essence: you agreed to them. Making someone's life miserable is not only a waste of one's one lifetime but not helping the next innocent person who is in pre-trial detention for years.
I don't think that 9 years of unjust imprisonment would make me a better person, I'm not that guy.
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Hi, four-month felony pretrial inmate who is proudly defying recidivism here. I’m the kind of guy who thinks load balancing is a fun topic of discussion — ask anyone who knows me how incredibly unfit for jail I am — and I survived just fine. You seem to have had the shit scared out of you, and I wanted to clarify a few things for you. You don’t have to be racist to survive county. You simply stick with your race. The…
okay so woods means white people, kinsfolk means black people. But DO = ?
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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Legalize heroin and then nobody will peddle fentanyl. Crises solved, see Portugal for an example in the real world. Making drugs illegal only really benefits drug dealers by putting the competition in jail and raising prices. Education and laws seem to fare so much better. See alcohol now and compare that to prohibition days rife with organized crime. It's political suicide to legalize street drugs in most countries…
In 2012, about 3.3 million net deaths, or 5.9% of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/facts/alcohol/en/ Legalizing drugs without more thought may actually make the problem worse. If drugs were 100% fully legal no restrictions why wouldn't corporations start advertising and pushing them as much as they do alcohol today? I'm actually for legalizing drugs but h…
I don't think anyone is arguing for no restrictions on schedule one drugs. Just clearly criminalizing possession/use is not working and it's time to try a new strategy. Distribution/selling should still be illegal and controlled by the government. I'd like to see a system where heroin addicts can get a prescription/license that allows them to purchase directly in a supervised injection center. I'd also like there to be plenty of resources and information available from the same place for those looking to leave that life behind.
But I'm not an expert, and probably the people who are could come up with a better solution.
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Legalize heroin and then nobody will peddle fentanyl. Crises solved, see Portugal for an example in the real world. Making drugs illegal only really benefits drug dealers by putting the competition in jail and raising prices. Education and laws seem to fare so much better. See alcohol now and compare that to prohibition days rife with organized crime. It's political suicide to legalize street drugs in most countries…
In 2012, about 3.3 million net deaths, or 5.9% of all global deaths, were attributable to alcohol consumption. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/facts/alcohol/en/ Legalizing drugs without more thought may actually make the problem worse. If drugs were 100% fully legal no restrictions why wouldn't corporations start advertising and pushing them as much as they do alcohol today? I'm actually for legalizing drugs but h…
You can ban advertising of alcohol (since 1975) and tobacco (and tobacco replacements) as well as drugs. Where I live (Norway) you can't advertise any of those things and it seems that most people are quite happy with that.
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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parent post seems quite vague. i think he means to use these imprisoned drug users as free labour to make money for the state. i believe some private prisons already do that.
Economic incentives for imprisoning people to be effective slave labourers is such a mind-bogglingly stupid idea that I don't even
And yet we do it, and slavery is still constitutionally allowed as long as it's a prisoner
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
#117There's an inmate in LA County jail who has been there 9 years awaiting trial on attempted murder. He is completely and totally institutionalized. A very nice guy but intimidating. Cops can arrest you for any reason, and if you can't make bail, then they place you in jails with convicted violent felons, some on murder trials. In LA jails, you have to be racist. Depending on your pod and program, you have special requ…
Who is the wealthy sex predator?
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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I'm pretty confident he's not suggesting a rapid death-penalty for drug-offenders
Hey it works for Singapore, Indonesia, and probably the Philippines. I think people are easier to control, but less productive when they have drugs. So it's really a question of what your nation is optimizing for at the time. Of course having a sub-class of previously convicted minor offenders, who as a result struggle with work/life, can also be fairly effective. It's not exactly slavery - that was mostly their ance…
"""I think people are easier to control, but less productive when they have drugs. So it's really a question of what your nation is optimizing for at the time."""
This is an opinion.
My opinion about your opinion is that your opinion is completely dumb and completely unfounded.
Michael Phelps smokes marijuana...along with countless other extremely high performers, doctor's, lawyers, politicians,movie stars, scientists Nobel prize winners, etc.
As for saying that executing drug offenders 'works'....I can't think of anything I've ever heard that's dumber in my life.
Especially when you could just execute ANYONE for breaking a law and keep the jails completely empty!
Why would you be so weak on crime?
Re: New Orleans man locked up nearly 8 years awaiting trial, then case gets tossed
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Hey it works for Singapore, Indonesia, and probably the Philippines. I think people are easier to control, but less productive when they have drugs. So it's really a question of what your nation is optimizing for at the time. Of course having a sub-class of previously convicted minor offenders, who as a result struggle with work/life, can also be fairly effective. It's not exactly slavery - that was mostly their ance…
People in the US have a lot of drugs and are also very productive. Your assertion makes no sense. I don't know much about Indonesia, but Singapore is an authoritarian state, and Duerte is trying to turn the Phillipines into a dictatorship. Tyrants like drug laws, and especially death penalty for drugs because it gives them an easy way to keep their thugs in practice, remind the populace that they are ready to kill, a…
Thanks. This is 100% accurate. I think OP was either a troll or we have Duterte on HN.