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> I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Then you'll end up with a bunch of charismatic police folks who want it, and can swoon voters to give it, but are generally ineffective at doing it. Source: politics in the US above the municipal level.
that already happens, county judges and sheriffs.
"New Mexico essentially banned civil asset forfeiture in 2015, but Albuquerque argued the state law didn't apply to its own city codes and continued to seize cars." How the fuck is a city able to just decide to ignore state laws? I don't understand... The officials in charge at the city level and in the police department need to see some jail time for breaking the very laws they are sworn to uphold.
At any time a city or town somewhere is trying to get sued by enacting “their own” anti gun laws. I see it come up at least twice a year.
This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel of justice to get going.
This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel of justice to get going.
I agree. However, keep in mind that personal property is considered as the root of all evil by some ideologies.
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agreed, I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Douglas Adams was bang on the nail when he said something to the tune of "that the only beings that can and should be trusted with power is those that dont want it, or aren't aware they have it"
> I'm inclined to think that "electing" your police force also subverts it. Then you'll end up with a bunch of charismatic police folks who want it, and can swoon voters to give it, but are generally ineffective at doing it. Source: politics in the US above the municipal level.
This is huge for justice. Protection for personal property is one of the most fundamental tenets of our society. Don't know why it takes so long for the wheel of justice to get going.
I agree. However, keep in mind that personal property is considered as the root of all evil by some ideologies.
It's about time a federal judge applies common sense to a forfeiture case. It really is amazing how little logic and common sense our judicial system has. How are we the people supposed to trust an illogical system that steals from people, murders innocent people, and that a third grader can see is unconstitutional? How can one even explain such madness to children who wonder if the cops killed the black guy just to…
Judges are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.