This may be a tangent but its relevant when looking ahead. I put more stock in the people building rehab centers for people with abusive habits than the prison system any day of the week. Amsterdam does just fine.
Also, nobody deserves to have there life ruined because of drugs not controlled by a government body.
I still regret not telling the cop out my front door arresting a guy for pot with intent to distribute from the neighboring apartment to go arrest a real criminal.
"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty." (1788) (2 Elliots Debates, 94, Bancroft, History of the Constitution, 267)
Despite the courts' refusal to inform jurors of their historical veto power, jury nullification in liquor law trials was a major contributing factor in ending alcohol prohibition. (Today in Kentucky jurors often refuse to convict under the marijuana prohibition laws.)
However, jury veto power is still recognized. In 1972 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the trial jury has an "...unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instruction on the law given by the trial judge." The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge; for example, acquittals under the fugitive slave law (473F 2dl 113)
About 18 months ago, armed with a number of pamphlets explaining the importance to each of us in having the courts fully inform juries of their rights, I stood in the Mendocino County Courthouse. I had been talking about this issue, with courthouse visitors when I was "invited" into Judge James Luther's courtroom by two of his bailiffs. Judge Luther, showed me how in general our courts have eroded. I was told to stop talking to my fellow citizens about their constitutional rights. Their right to understand a jury's role in the court procedure. I was told to stop or be arrested for jury tampering.
Small point on #2. Taxed to the hilt already but those funds usually end up in school coffers & the multi-million dollar 'education about tobacco fund'.
As a member of the International Game Developers Association throughout my academia stint was enlightening on this one since it was widely talked about. Starting at the ground floor of Hot Coffee and the black boxes at Hastings for games like the Playboy Mansion it always boiled down a few observational fallacies based in morality and one extra which only I seemed to cover.
A. Protect the Children via [fill in the blank]
B. New "solution" to the ratings system and why studios should[moral] consider a wider audience.
C. Finally my thesis and thread starter on the forums; The answer to why we restrict a persons choice on things they buy based on the arbitrariness of age.
its actually at the neutrino level and the fundamental flaw in science but nevertheless pertinent to the discussion as a starting point but the reaction & solution to the "cops have rights" is also fundamentally flawed. How? you might ask. It's simple really; rights are made up.
Is it just me or in light of this why doesn't the google team invest in tech like stumbleUpon that or buy it up. It's one of the few (/sarc) situations where mother of all invention comes to roost.
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Also, nobody deserves to have there life ruined because of drugs not controlled by a government body.
I still regret not telling the cop out my front door arresting a guy for pot with intent to distribute from the neighboring apartment to go arrest a real criminal.
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Ah yes.
"If a juror accepts as the law that which the judge states then that juror has accepted the exercise of absolute authority of a government employee and has surrendered a power and right that once was the citizen's safeguard of liberty." (1788) (2 Elliots Debates, 94, Bancroft, History of the Constitution, 267)
Despite the courts' refusal to inform jurors of their historical veto power, jury nullification in liquor law trials was a major contributing factor in ending alcohol prohibition. (Today in Kentucky jurors often refuse to convict under the marijuana prohibition laws.)
However, jury veto power is still recognized. In 1972 the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals held that the trial jury has an "...unreviewable and irreversible power...to acquit in disregard of the instruction on the law given by the trial judge." The pages of history shine upon instances of the jury's exercise of its prerogative to disregard instructions of the judge; for example, acquittals under the fugitive slave law (473F 2dl 113)
About 18 months ago, armed with a number of pamphlets explaining the importance to each of us in having the courts fully inform juries of their rights, I stood in the Mendocino County Courthouse. I had been talking about this issue, with courthouse visitors when I was "invited" into Judge James Luther's courtroom by two of his bailiffs. Judge Luther, showed me how in general our courts have eroded. I was told to stop talking to my fellow citizens about their constitutional rights. Their right to understand a jury's role in the court procedure. I was told to stop or be arrested for jury tampering.
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Re: doublespeak
It doesn't have to be finical gains. The whole ICE hunt sounds like power testing to me by trickle(show a little) rather than flood.
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Question for ya
P.S. You have no rights
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Nice twist ;0
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Re: Examples in Reality
TSA on the ground now
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Re: drugs patents and psoriasis
[citation needed]
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Examples in Reality
Worried about radiation at airports try the street
Good news; we can fight back!
My favorite because the pastor was acquitted and it has video
Somebody asked me why I have infowars as my link. Things like this is why.
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Re: View of the past and future.
Ah... the joys of Child worship
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View of the past and future.
A. Protect the Children via [fill in the blank]
B. New "solution" to the ratings system and why studios should[moral] consider a wider audience.
C. Finally my thesis and thread starter on the forums; The answer to why we restrict a persons choice on things they buy based on the arbitrariness of age.
And those f'n kids
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Re: I so have to throw this one out ...
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Re: banned is the goal
"I do things I can not do, simply to learn how to do them."
If nobody dares to cross the arbitrary line it will be a sad, boring and ugly world.
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