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Re:America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:13PM (#21879714)
That's the point. We pay, it should anger us, so we hold the authorities to accountability
Re:America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:08PM (#21879686)
Not at all. However we live in a world where law enforcement for a variety of factors continue to attempt to suppress our rights to assemble.
Re:America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:46PM (#21879561)
Use your right to bear arms to defend your right to assemble.
Re:America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @12:10PM (#21879354)
Better that then the successful plaintiff being left holding the bag when their civil rights are horrifically violated. Excessive force cases can and do result in death and disability not including whatever mental trauma. Better the people that the state that employs law enforcement bear the cost associated with their actions, then victims of civil rights violations are unable to collect against a bankrupt defendant.
Re:America's Most Underappreciated Right: Public Assembly
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @11:59AM (#21879293)
Then it would be up to a competent attorney to sue the arresting officer under 42 usc 1983 civil actions for deprivations of rights. The law provided for reasonable attorney fees to be paid by a defendant who violated your civil rights. The nice thing is that even though your suing the officer who violated your civil rights they are usually covered by an insurance policy so it's technically not an asset poor officer paying the judgement
Re:Uber and Lyft Suggest the Days of Cheap Rides Could Be Over
on Saturday December 14, 2019 @02:08PM (#21791420)
Dunkin Donuts and Exxon provide all of the land, buildings, vehicles and materials their employees use to conduct business and turn a profit.
Uber and Lyft not so much
Re:From a life prison sentence to a computer engineering job
on Sunday October 20, 2019 @07:18PM (#21308015)
A very large part of the prison population across the country comes from people convicted of a felony, given probation, and being kicked off of probation. The number 1 way to get kicked off probation is failing a drug test. The war on drugs led to the massive prison expansion since 1972 in the usa
Re:Tests show bootleg marijuana vapes tainted with hydrogen cyanide
on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:22PM (#21093610)
You COULD get much higher ratios of CBD and THC in this format if the product is not chopped to hell in back. The issue with black market carts is that it is hard to tell whether it is the genuine article with a visual inspection or by tasting the product. It's much easier with the actual flower. In theory the liquid is more potent, in practice without regulation not so much
Re:Judge Rules Terrorism Watchlist Violates Constitutional Rights
on Thursday September 05, 2019 @08:06AM (#20885817)
In order for the government to restrict a right under the Constitution they must have a compelling government interest, and they must write the law in a way that is narrowily tailored in a way that accomplishes the government goal in the least restrictive way over that person Constitutional right.
Re:U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory: Marijuana Use and the Developing B...
on Thursday August 29, 2019 @05:24PM (#20833855)
I'd be willing to bet there's overall more miles of people driving stoned then drunk.
Re:Behind the Yakuza: documenting the women of Japan’s mafia (2018)
on Friday April 26, 2019 @10:34AM (#19757925)
The Italian mafias peaked 60 years ago or so, but they have been very relevant the past 60 years, just maybe not as open
1963 mafia killed JFK
1980's stole massive amounts in gas taxes https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
Early 90s window scheme where mafia received kickbacks from all large developers in nyc https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://...
Re:LA Is Trying to Fix Its Prostitution Problem by Banning Right Turns...
on Sunday November 04, 2018 @09:45AM (#18376073)
The city is empowered to make the change. The court are empowered to overturn it as an unconditional restrictions on our liberty. Specificially the fourth amendment
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things .
Re:We posed as 100 Senators to run ads on Facebook. Facebook approved ...
on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @09:05PM (#18342596)
The government can limit speech if they have a compelling reason (the governments reasoning outweighs the persons freedom of speech, think yelling fire in a crowded theater). If the government has a compelling reason they can only limit the speech in the most narrowly tailored way to accomplish their goal and still allow the most freedom of speech possible.
Re:A Nobel Prize-winning physicist sold his medal for $765,000 to pay ...
on Thursday October 04, 2018 @03:32PM (#18142925)
For one we are a Republic not a democracy. If we were a pure democracy its arguable whether we would be in better or worse shape. If we were a Republic as our constitution was drafted, prior to the supreme court gutting state and individual liberties with the commerce clause,etc. I think we would be in much better shape
Re:The Diplomatic Couriers Who Deliver America's Secret Mail
on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @09:14PM (#17914335)
The us constitution explicitly states the powers the federal government are granted. The bill of rights guarentees that all powers not given to the federal government are guaranteed to the states and people (9th and 10th amendments)
Re:Deadly Chinese Fentanyl Is Creating a New Era of Drug Kingpins
on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @06:39PM (#17139094)
Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion is a 1998 book by journalist Gary Webb. The book is based on "Dark Alliance", Webb's three-part investigative series published in the San Jose Mercury News in August 1996. Wikipedia
The major news outlets for the most part did not dispute his facts, just used former cia reporters to discredit his conclusions. Which led to Gary Webb "committing suicide" by shooting himself twice in the head with a revolver
Re:Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No
on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:52PM (#16080651)
Because you picking said mushrooms affects interstate commerce, which after dude's new deal would fall under the control of the commerce clause. Prior to fdr only people and things in interstate commerce could be controlled