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• On the post: California Law Enforcement Union Sues To Block Police Accountability

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 08:59pm

  Re: Re: Mistakes might have happened long ago

  *permitted (obviously)

• On the post: California Law Enforcement Union Sues To Block Police Accountability

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 08:58pm

  Re: Mistakes might have happened long ago

  Someone who makes "mistakes" like these shouldn't be petmitted to be a cop.

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 06:33pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  The proposed law itself is Poe.
  
  (Poesian? Poetic?)

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 04:54pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Justice

  I already called dibs on harlot. You don't get to be one.

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 04:26pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Justice

  Thad wrote:

  http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne

  Goddammit Thad. [Closes techdirt, revealing 87 open TV Tropes tabs]

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 02:57pm

  Re: Re: Re: Justice

  Seek help. (Me, a harlot.)

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 02:54pm

  Re: Re: Seizure

  $1500 a week, paid travel, plenty of time outdoors in the fresh air (tear gas and pepper spray notwithstanding).
  
  I'll need to know more about paid vacation time and health benefits before I commit, though.

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 02:32pm

  Re: Re:

  And... they've "temporarily detained" the bus driver and seized the bus. Now how am I supposed to get home?

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 02:30pm

  Re: It's Constitunal only when it suits you I guess

  I'm not sure how seriously I can take the argument of someone who believes that protesters are being paid.
  
  Actually, scratch that. The answer is not seriously at all.

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 02:26pm

  Re: Seizure

  I've been out protesting on a regular basis and all I got is this (not lousy, in fact it's pretty comfortable) ACLU t-shirt.
  
  Where are my Sorosbucks? Do I need to fill out another W-4 or something?

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 11:33am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Voted as "funny".

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 10:17am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Michael asked:

  Why should the cost of the window come out of the pocket of the victim?

  Bureaucratic hassles notwithstanding, under already-existing Arizona law, it doesn't have to. Arizona Revised Statutes § 13-603:

  C. If a person is convicted of an offense, the court shall require the convicted person to make restitution to the person who is the victim of the crime or to the immediate family of the victim if the victim has died, in the full amount of the economic loss as determined by the court and in the manner as determined by the court or the court's designee pursuant to chapter 8 of this title.

• On the post: California Law Enforcement Union Sues To Block Police Accountability

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 04:22pm

  Keep in mind

  Remember that this particular controversy is about allowing prosecutors access to a list of "problem officers" so that they don't have to rely on their testimony in court.
  
  It has nothing to do with ridding the sheriff department of deputies who have a record of domestic violence, brutality, theft, falsifying reports, etc. Nope, their jobs are entirely safe, regardless of how this lawsuit turns out.

• On the post: California Law Enforcement Union Sues To Block Police Accountability

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 04:18pm

  "Mistakes"

  The Assn. for Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs argues that the disclosure would violate state laws protecting officer personnel files and draw unfair scrutiny on deputies whose mistakes might have happened long ago.

  "Mistakes" made by these deputies include "domestic violence, theft, bribery and brutality".

  Because who hasn't slipped up and totally accidentally brutalized someone. oops!

• On the post: Arizona Legislators Approve Bill That Would Allow Government To Seize Assets From Protesters

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 24 Feb, 2017 @ 09:59am

  Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, said the new criminal laws are necessary. ... “If they get thrown in jail, somebody pays to get them out,’’ she said. “There has to be something to deter them from that.’’

  Ooh! Maybe they could also seize the assets of people who pay the bail for to get people out. And seize the assets of defense attorneys too! I mean, why stop at just an attack on the constitutional rights of protesters? Need to bring the whole criminal enterprise down, amirite?

  ....

  On a related note, R-Snowflake is just a little too on-the-nose.

• On the post: Sen. Wyden Wants Answers From New DHS Head, Introducing Legislation To Create Warrant Requirement For Border Phone Searches

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2017 @ 10:32am

  Re:

  Like I have said here before, before crossing the border into the United States, you just simply factory reset your phone, and wipe it clean. That will solve the problem of phone searches.

  The problem of phone searches is the government seizing and searching your personal property and violating your privacy without a warrant. Deleting your data in order to protect it from the government is not a solution to this problem. It's a workaround, and a high-cost one at that. It may be advisable, it may even be necessary, but it does nothing to address the fundamental problem: This is attack on our civil and human rights.

• On the post: Google Report: 99.95 Percent Of DMCA Takedown Notices Are Bot-Generated Bullshit Buckshot

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2017 @ 10:52am

  Nice alliteration. :-)
  
  (I suppose Bot-Built Bullshit Buckshot was too much of a stretch.)

• On the post: Oh, Sure, Suddenly Now The House Intelligence Boss Is Concerned About Surveillance… Of Mike Flynn

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2017 @ 12:11pm

  Re: Deepstate says what

  We won't know until we get a public investigation, which we won't get unless Republicans in Congress allow it to happen.

• On the post: Oh, Sure, Suddenly Now The House Intelligence Boss Is Concerned About Surveillance… Of Mike Flynn

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 15 Feb, 2017 @ 11:07am

  Of course, there's lots of irony to go around here. Timothy Edgar -- who was the director of privacy and civil liberties for the White House National Security staff under Obama (and also did privacy/civil liberties work in the Bush administration) has noted that the leaking of the contents of his phone calls actually means that Flynn's own civil rights have been violated and even suggests he gives the ACLU a call (oh, and another layer of irony: Edgar has been warning about how Flynn and others in the Trump administration might trample on civil liberties... and yet here, he's arguing that Flynn's civil liberties have been violated.)

  I wouldn't necessarily call that irony. On the face of it, it looks like... absence of hypocrisy. Principle, even.

  On second thought, maybe that is ironic.

  I'm so confused. This is exhausting.

• On the post: Get Ready For 'Leak Investigations' In The Trump White House

  

  sorrykb ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2017 @ 03:23pm

  Re: Re:

  Case in point... when Obama took office, was there an article about Our Humanity...

  Maybe, just maybe, one thing and another thing are two different things.

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