-
Wow. I know a certain murderer who's on bail right now, but a minister growing marijuana plants is too dangerous to release? What fucking bullshit. Prosecutors wrote 46 pages on why he shouldn't be free pending trial. DERP. Judge Alan Kay is an asshole.
-
Wow. He explains his cannibalistic fetish so rationally and matter-of-factly. He murdered and ate a girl, and never went to jail. This has got to be one of the most fascinating interviews I've ever read.
-
I had a douchebag by the name of Danny tell me today that police brutality has nothing to do with America, but are isolated incidents. Except that's not true. When the laws of America allow an officer to continue to be an officer after being suspended 15 times, it is definitely an American phenomenon.
(This same person also talked about being a Buddhist who valued communication over bitching, yet told me I could leave the country if I didn't like it here. )
Ask yourself 2 questions:
1) What would you have to do to get suspended from your job?
2) How many times do you think you would be suspended before being fired?If the answer to #2 is less than 15, here's proof that police are held to a different standard. And this is by American laws. This is an American thing. Like it or not, this is a Bad Thing about America.
If you really care about the country, you'd be more interested in fixing this than telling people they can leave the country if they don't like it.
-
Hmm, maybe I need to change my stance on gun control?
-
They got him and they beat him up and jumped all over him, held him and they were holding onto the fence and jumping on him," said one man who witnessed it happen. The kid IS STILL ON DIALYSIS 2 yrs later, and may be on it for the rest of his life. The city already paid him out $875K of taxpayer money. You can bet well over $1M of taxpayer money was spent so that these thug pigs can beat up a teenager.
-
Wow. That's fucked up. If you don't want your baby to be free, just abort it. I can't imagine one's life ALREADY BEING A LIE by the time one is born. Sick fucking mind control in the name of religion-encouraged discrimination. SICK SICK SICK.
July 31, 2010
July 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM
“If the answer to #2 is less than 15, here’s proof that police unionized public employees are held to a different standard.”
The problem isn’t so hard to identify.
July 31, 2010 at 9:57 PM
huh, guess strike isn’t one of the allowed html tags
August 1, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Stacy, I think you’re confusing Bad Things and Corruption.
If not for unions, you can bet you’d work longer hours for less pay and have no (or worse) health care for your kids. The war between the haves and the have nots is a war of opposing forces between the side of greed for the rich, and the side of fairness for the poor. (Which can also be defined as greed, except greed is far more applicable for the poor than the rich.)
The police also use the right to self defense to kill people left and right, but this doesn’t mean that the problem is having a right to self defense. The problem is the establishment, and especially the police, push their rights beyond a reasonable level, to the point where it becomes corruption (absolute power corrupts).
That some (or even all, though I don’t believe that) unions are corrupt does not mean unions are all bad, any more than some corrupt corporations automatically meaning all corporations are bad (though I think they should be reduced to the 1700s implementation), or that Muslim terrorists mean all Muslims are bad.
August 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM
This entire post was a beauty.The way the law works in Amerika blows me away.We have a really fucked up government in Canada right now but even they don’t have the nerve to try to enlist the kind of draconian felony time they hand out in the US of A.Our cops just shoot people that bug them but they make sure there are no witnesses.They whine a lot too.
August 4, 2010 at 8:38 PM
Oh, I agree that unions did a lot of good for regular joes in their day. I’m just saying there’s a serious problem with the idea of government workers, already insulated from any pressure to do their jobs well, having the extra disincentive of a union to cover their asses even further. Try googling “rubber room” and “NYC schools”.
The federal government even admits it, indirectly, by hiring contractors at twice the price so that a) critical work actually gets done, and b) they can actually fire them if needed.
August 5, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Not just “regular joes in their day”, but people now. Retired auto workers got health care benefits via their union. Of course this hurt our competition with Japanese companies that didn’t have to spend money on health care, but if I was a worker, I’d want health care. You and me both directly benefit from unions in the past, even though we aren’t in any, sort of kind of in the same sort of way that non-gun-owners benefit by living in a neighborhood with gun-owners.
Schools and government are part of the establishment, so of course their corruption rate is higher than private industry. But it’s too simplistic [in my opinion] to simply say “unions are the problem”.
In fact, a common way to take away rights from non-establishment people is to have the establishment abuse them. For example, when cops shoot people, there are people that think this means that nobody [cop and civilian alike] should be allowed to have guns, when in fact the problem is not the right itself, but the abuse of it. . .