Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I meant when I trolled her. Mostly I just insulted her. I don't remember you trolling so much either. To me trolling implies some false level of sincerity, you know, like we do here with Ty?

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Yes. I wasn't really being serious.

TM

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

I miss her, she united us all.

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

Just when I think Jeff Sessions cannot possibly suck more, the DOJ comes out with its new civil asset forfeiture policy.

Your new-caught sullen peoples/half devil and half child*
 

Sebby, read this from Fran Lebowitz** to help you understand what people mean when they use the phrase "white privilege."

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DE-yK8HU...jpg&name=large

Here's the tweet I got it from.


*Yes, I know that Rudyard was talking about colonialism and the Raj, but it fits.

**Like someone on Twitter said, seeing her name always reminds me of Fawn Lebowitz (of Emily Dickerson College).

Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

Someone needs to explain this to me. Who, besides law enforcement, thinks this bullshit law is okay? Libertarians sure as hell don't. Minorities don't (as they are the disproportionate targets). Liberals obviously don't. So, who the fuck does? Where is it getting the support?

Also, how the fuck is it that there is a legal concept in which a government actor can seize your property on the suspicion of it being involved in or acquired with the proceeds of a crime and then force the rightful owner to prove that it wasn't? How the fuck is this not a straight up government taking? Is it an exception?

And the legal fallacy that the target of the law is the property and not the person deprived of the property is legal bullshit that should have people picking up torches and pitchforks in anger. It's just absolutely ridiculous.

It makes sense to me that if the government can prove that property was gained with the proceeds of a crime for which the owner has been convicted (before seizing it, of course), then it makes sense that it can be confiscated, auctioned off, etc. But civil asset forfeiture is being used to fucking fund police departments all over the country. Clearly people in the small towns where it is so very popular would prefer to have the minorities driving through fund their police departments. I see that. But cops are well beyond victimizing just them and are abusing this shit all over the place.

I don't get it at all. It seems like a clear violation of the Fifth Amendment. The Supreme Court should have ended it years ago.

TM

Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
 

sort of the proto-trump.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

Be quiet or they'll bulldoze your house.

It's coming. Really. Soon the Bronx will be though of as the West Bank by law enforcement.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

I don't disagree with you. I think Sessions is stuck in the 1980's and really, really, really, really, really wants to win the win the war on drugs this time.

Its crap like this that makes "Conservatism isn't racist, we just want less government" a laughingstock. But Sessions was pretty clear about his position in his confirmation hearings and the GOP thought it was okey dokey.

I used to identify as a conservative, rather than a Republican, but now that's been ruined too.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

Wait, conservatives want less government? Don't tell the military industrial complex.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

You're both correct and also wrong about which time period he's stuck in.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

Typo.

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I think he's the kind of person who likes it when government reinforces traditional social hierarchies. He's not going to win the war on drugs, but he's into the fighting of it.

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

Did you post this at 4:20 to be funny?

Re: Civil Asset Forfeiture
 

This is the America Red States Want:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DE-V3DWXUAAeJJo.jpg:large