Ponderable
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Bruddah IZ
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Wez
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Question for the righties...Sessions is a strong advocate for civil asset forfeiture, you ok with that?
http://rare.us/story/jeff-sessions-is-a-terrible-choice-for-attorney-general/
On the issue of civil asset forfeiture—legalized theft by the police without any recourse for those who have their property stolen (which has ruined many lives)—Sessions is a strong advocate.
Robert Everett Johnson praised Sessions’ support of civil asset forfeiture at Roll Call in 2015, “Midway through the committee hearing, he declared that he was ‘very unhappy’ with criticism of civil forfeiture, because in his view ‘taking and seizing and forfeiting, through a government judicial process, illegal gains from criminal enterprises is not wrong.”
Sessions also said that “95 percent” of civil asset forfeitures involve people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”
http://rare.us/story/jeff-sessions-is-a-terrible-choice-for-attorney-general/
On the issue of civil asset forfeiture—legalized theft by the police without any recourse for those who have their property stolen (which has ruined many lives)—Sessions is a strong advocate.
Robert Everett Johnson praised Sessions’ support of civil asset forfeiture at Roll Call in 2015, “Midway through the committee hearing, he declared that he was ‘very unhappy’ with criticism of civil forfeiture, because in his view ‘taking and seizing and forfeiting, through a government judicial process, illegal gains from criminal enterprises is not wrong.”
Sessions also said that “95 percent” of civil asset forfeitures involve people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.”
Wez
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At least they're not anonymous....?
OC TOC tournament tough guy.
Sheriff Joe
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Wez
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Muahahahahaa...bless your little heart you are sumthin' else.
Pussy
Bruddah IZ
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"This is the thing I think we begin to forget when we focus too much on a single candidate. The current president of the United States, President Barack Obama, campaigned on a platform of ending mass surveillance in the United States. He said no more warrantless wiring tapping. He said he’d investigate and end criminal activities that had occurred under the prior administration…. And we all put a lot of hope in him because of this. Not just people in [the United States]…but people in Europe and elsewhere around the world. It was a moment where we believed that because the right person got into office everything would change. But unfortunately, once he took that office we saw that he actually didn’t fulfill those campaign promises.
Snowden highlighted Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo Bay and end mass warrantless surveillance as specific broken campaign promises. Snowden said he was bringing up these points simply to drive home a larger message.
“We should be cautious about putting too much faith or fear into elected officials,” said Snowden. “At the end of the day, this is just a president.”
Snowden highlighted Obama’s failure to close Guantanamo Bay and end mass warrantless surveillance as specific broken campaign promises. Snowden said he was bringing up these points simply to drive home a larger message.
“We should be cautious about putting too much faith or fear into elected officials,” said Snowden. “At the end of the day, this is just a president.”
Something I am sure would be ponderable to some of the posters here - the other day I took the 237 bus from Rancho Bernardo to UCSD. At one stop near the campus on La Jolla Village Drive, 30 (I counted them - 30) college-student-age-looking passengers got on. Not one of them was a white male.
Bruddah IZ
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That's a nice round number. Asian?
Sheriff Joe
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Welcome to Cali. Just go to the Mall, same thing.
Hüsker Dü
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Go on campus and it's more diverse, you are just seeing the kids that stay off campus, the ones that can afford it.
Your stereotyping may be headed in the wrong direction. Perhaps the white males drove their own cars to campus.
In my two Asian kids' combined 9 years at UC Davis, they had about 20 roommates. One Chinese female, one Vietnamese male, and one mixed Russian-Mexican male.
Hüsker Dü
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No stereotyping, just talking on campus dorms and locals vs those from out of state and from an inside point of view . . .
Sheriff Joe
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Watching NASCAR, the Anthem, God Bless America and Pray to God before the race and then drive around the track with a giant American Flag.
Now these people know how to start a sporting event.
Nothing like the cowards that run the NFL.
Now these people know how to start a sporting event.
Nothing like the cowards that run the NFL.
Bruddah IZ
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My Freedom Trumps Your Fake Mandate
https://fee.org/articles/my-freedom-trumps-your-fake-mandate/?utm_medium=popular_widget
But, what if, instead of this conspicuously violent approach, you were able to put the people themselves to sleep, to hypnotize them? What if you were able to trick a free people into deceiving themselves? What if, in the name of freedom, you could convince a people to forsake their freedom? What if you could nudge them into a suicide pact in the hope of avoiding national suicide?
All concerns are now seen as worthy altars upon which to sacrifice human liberty–as long as they are popular enough.
To do so, you would need to confuse people into thinking their liberty was merely a matter of sharing in the promises of power—say, convince them their right to vote and dictate the lives of others was more important than their individual right to think, speak, and act freely—and then watch their lust for this power make them regard liberty with jealousy and fear.
You would also need to suggest liberty is just another good in the marketplace of ideas rather than the cornerstone of a just society. You could claim liberty should be “balanced” or even sacrificed for the sake of security, wealth, health, equality, or the nation’s greatness. You could do this until the people themselves start singing the same chorus that all the solutions to all the world’s ills have a price tag marked with “our freedom.”
“Power gives us a guarantee,” the people will chant, “and set us free from the risks of liberty!”
https://fee.org/articles/my-freedom-trumps-your-fake-mandate/?utm_medium=popular_widget
But, what if, instead of this conspicuously violent approach, you were able to put the people themselves to sleep, to hypnotize them? What if you were able to trick a free people into deceiving themselves? What if, in the name of freedom, you could convince a people to forsake their freedom? What if you could nudge them into a suicide pact in the hope of avoiding national suicide?
All concerns are now seen as worthy altars upon which to sacrifice human liberty–as long as they are popular enough.
To do so, you would need to confuse people into thinking their liberty was merely a matter of sharing in the promises of power—say, convince them their right to vote and dictate the lives of others was more important than their individual right to think, speak, and act freely—and then watch their lust for this power make them regard liberty with jealousy and fear.
You would also need to suggest liberty is just another good in the marketplace of ideas rather than the cornerstone of a just society. You could claim liberty should be “balanced” or even sacrificed for the sake of security, wealth, health, equality, or the nation’s greatness. You could do this until the people themselves start singing the same chorus that all the solutions to all the world’s ills have a price tag marked with “our freedom.”
“Power gives us a guarantee,” the people will chant, “and set us free from the risks of liberty!”
Wez
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Not sure I would brag about that. You've had plenty of opportunity to back your tough talk, you got nothin...
Next time you threaten someone, make sure to clarify they will have to publicly post their name and phone numbers to actually receive an ass woopin. Don't make me chase you down in PMs, yet again...