Anybody over forty right now could care less about what the police are doing.
Careful with the broad brush there, kid. I'm over forty, and so are a lot of my Libertarian friends who have been warning people about this shit for decades.
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, and a population fully aware of and prepared to defend our rights, this kind of thing would go like this:
"Hello, 911 emergency. What is your emergency?"
"Hi, I've just made a citizen's arrest. The perp came in here posing as a federal officer, but he couldn't even recite the oath when he was looking down the barrels of my shotgun." I disarmed him and hog-tied him. The press is on the way, could you send a deputy over here to pick him up, or should I bring him in to the jail?"
Say whatever you want to say, and demand a jury trial if they want to punish you for it. The great lesson of the fall of the Soviet Empire is that the people outnumber the thugs, and the thugs' power depends entirely on the people's obedience.
You know, the founding fathers thought the same thing, and they referred to that civilian security force as the militia. That is to say, all able-bodied men within a certain age range.
Food today, even freshly grown food, isn't the same the world over, and it isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. It is almost certainly poorer in quality.
Citation needed. What reason do you have to believe that food quality has diminished in the last 50 years?
A pardon is the government forgiving someone for doing something wrong. What the British government should do in this case is admit that the government was wrong to ever enact the statute in question, and exonerate everyone ever punished under it.
Yeah, went there a short while ago and the Mexican customs officer asked me to put my bag through an x-ray machine, then push a button. Got a green light, so they waved me through. Not sure how many people got the red light, but our whole flight got through customs pretty quick.
Microsoft had already tried and failed to sell tablet computing for about a decade before Apple showed them how to do it right. Their response was to double down with yet another attempt to shoehorn windows into a role it never fit.
It's his prerogative to behave badly if he wants, but he doesn't get to choose how other people react to it. If Sharp doesn't like it, she's free to choose more mature people to collaborate with.
Thank you for demonstrating the effectiveness of the propaganda campaign that brought this matter to trial. You bought the government's spin hook, line, and sinker. Luckily for Zimmerman, a jury trial means that the prosecution still has to prove a case, no matter how good a job the media does of trying to motivate a lynch mob.
I expect this diligent, law-abiding citizen to make a couple hundred grand on a wrongful termination action, and hopefully there will be some consequences for his boss under whistleblower statutes as well.
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The future of newspapers is to follow whale oil lamps and buggy whips into history, but with a lot more bitching and moaning along the way.
-jcr
I think you guys have just invented financial homeopathy.
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Anybody over forty right now could care less about what the police are doing.
Careful with the broad brush there, kid. I'm over forty, and so are a lot of my Libertarian friends who have been warning people about this shit for decades.
-jcr
If we had a functioning justice system in this country, and a population fully aware of and prepared to defend our rights, this kind of thing would go like this:
"Hello, 911 emergency. What is your emergency?"
"Hi, I've just made a citizen's arrest. The perp came in here posing as a federal officer, but he couldn't even recite the oath when he was looking down the barrels of my shotgun." I disarmed him and hog-tied him. The press is on the way, could you send a deputy over here to pick him up, or should I bring him in to the jail?"
-jcr
Say whatever you want to say, and demand a jury trial if they want to punish you for it. The great lesson of the fall of the Soviet Empire is that the people outnumber the thugs, and the thugs' power depends entirely on the people's obedience.
-jcr
I was mugged last year.
I'm sorry that your government violates your right to defend yourself. Mugging should be a fatal career choice.
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the homeowner believing he was a victim of a home invasion by criminals.
The homeowner was correct.
-jcr
You know, the founding fathers thought the same thing, and they referred to that civilian security force as the militia. That is to say, all able-bodied men within a certain age range.
-jcr
Food today, even freshly grown food, isn't the same the world over, and it isn't the same as it was 50 years ago. It is almost certainly poorer in quality.
Citation needed. What reason do you have to believe that food quality has diminished in the last 50 years?
-jcr
Good for them for apologizing, but what I said stands. Turing shouldn't be pardoned, he should be exonerated.
-jcr
A pardon is the government forgiving someone for doing something wrong. What the British government should do in this case is admit that the government was wrong to ever enact the statute in question, and exonerate everyone ever punished under it.
-jcr
Get a life, kid. I'm not going to quit signing my posts just because you digg.com newbs throw your little tantrums.
-jcr
Yeah, went there a short while ago and the Mexican customs officer asked me to put my bag through an x-ray machine, then push a button. Got a green light, so they waved me through. Not sure how many people got the red light, but our whole flight got through customs pretty quick.
-jcr
Microsoft had already tried and failed to sell tablet computing for about a decade before Apple showed them how to do it right. Their response was to double down with yet another attempt to shoehorn windows into a role it never fit.
-jcr
Wiretapping, as legally defined, requires that someone listen to a conversation.
They routinely record conversations. The crimes have been committed whether they get around to listening to those recordings or not.
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The whole idea of "secret courts" is, in and of itself, ludicrous.
And unconstitutional.
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The NSA's sniffing is legally comparable to a police dragnet checking door-to-door for a suspect
Nope. It's billions of counts of illegal wiretapping against people who are not suspects. That's why it's a crime.
-jcr
2) Meeting deadlines is stressful.
Since when does Linux have deadlines?
-jcr
It's his prerogative to behave badly if he wants, but he doesn't get to choose how other people react to it. If Sharp doesn't like it, she's free to choose more mature people to collaborate with.
-jcr
Thank you for demonstrating the effectiveness of the propaganda campaign that brought this matter to trial. You bought the government's spin hook, line, and sinker. Luckily for Zimmerman, a jury trial means that the prosecution still has to prove a case, no matter how good a job the media does of trying to motivate a lynch mob.
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...and the witnesses.
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his *life was not in danger*
Maybe your life wouldn't be in danger if you got your brain smashed on the pavement, but that's not the case for most people.
-jcr
Looks like the little Nifong wannabe who fired him is looking at a trial of her own for lying to get a warrant.
-jcr
Shocking, isn't it?
Wait, not shocking.... What's the word I was looking for?
Oh yeah: business as usual.
-jcr
I expect this diligent, law-abiding citizen to make a couple hundred grand on a wrongful termination action, and hopefully there will be some consequences for his boss under whistleblower statutes as well.
-jcr