Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU
by User23 on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:58PM
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"I want a country with law and order, where police officers listen to the courts, not to the president."
You should learn a bit more about how our legal system works. Separation of powers means the Judicial branch can't have control over an executive power like policing.
Re:Peter Thiel won’t be involved in YC’s work with the ACLU
by geofft on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:42PM
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Control, no, respect, yes. Law enforcement has to listen to the courts, even though they are directed by their superiors. When the president makes an executive order, a court places a stay on it, and law enforcement officers respond, "I don't care, I'm carrying out the order because I answer to the president," then the executive branch has taken on the roles of both the legislative and judicial as well.
I'll gladly join the right, then. I want common-sense economic policies that inspire growth, not identity politics that keeps people out of my country depending on where they were born. I want limited government that doesn't regulate which bathroom you're in or what medical advice your doctor can give you. I want laissez-faire capitalism, not artificial tariffs on guacamole because big government wants money for a public works project that no business would find profitable to build. I want my city's mayor to be able to say that policing is better when we apply local policy to handling undocumented immigrants, without the federal government overruling us. I go to a church every Sunday where my male pastor is married to another male pastor of another congregation, and I want the state not to tell them that their marriage is invalid. I want a country with law and order, where police officers listen to the courts, not to the president. I want Russia to stop occupying Crimea and invading other former USSR land, because I want America to have won the cold war. And yes, I want the surveillance state that Obama set up to be shut down.
Now can I be intolerant of the destruction of our country at the hands of social justice warrior Steve Bannon and identity politician Peter Thiel?