One of the problems is that the police are trained too well. They are taught how to use language that takes the advice of a lawyer to maintain one's rights.
They are taught to justify murder, being placed in fear of their lives, because the victim was reading a book.
They are taught which testilies are dependent for verification based on their word alone.
They are taught how to commit, and get away with every crime in the book, with an incredibly small chance of getting caught.
I will certainly agree that for profit prisons provide a key part of the problem, and the difficulties of ex offenders finding a way of making a livelihood. But the problem goes deeper than that. A great part is the use of fear mongering with ridiculous crime (currently at a low) as a means of political pandering.
I hear all too many people claim that crime is at an all time high. That people who commit minor violations should be jailed for life. And that if someone is arrested, they are guilty. I have no idea how the public should be educated, but it needs it desperately.
This is a start, but even with laboratory based testing, there is little assurance of a correct result. There is often significant pressure from the police for a "positive." Sink testing is all too frequent. Some laboratory staff like to play god with other peoples lives. Forensic testing is often slipshod, and does not provide proper quality assurance such as double blind testing.
Adding several zeros wouldn't change anything. A jail term for armed robbery might. So would firing the next five people up the chain of command for training mafeasance.
Perhaps the solution is to make the outcome the outcome of a gladatorial contest between the chairman of the board and the reputed infringers. The title legally required to be assumed by every surviving officer in the line of hierarchy. Said officers never having been permitted to be athletes of any kind as a part of their contractual TOSs.
This would serve two purposes. First it would reduce the number of such cases, and secondly reduce the salary contests for corporate officers. /s
Makes no less sense than making copying a game a felony, and would do great collateral good.
What does HBO use the phrase "Winter is coming for?" If it is for a title, then there is no infringement because titles are no longer required to be unique. If it is not a title, then there can be no confusion.
If they trademark "Winter is coming" can I hold them liable for all the damage done by Winter, the additional cost of heating, clearing snow and the increase in the price of produce? If, as it appears this year that winter is not coming, can snow based resorts sue them for lost profits?
You may see this as a dumb argument. But boycotts have been, and are a legitimate mechanism for changing the behavior of the powerful. Indeed, they are about the only thing that are understood by many who control the generation of what you so generously call "art."
But if you want to bring about change, then it has to be a demonstration of power against power, not whining against power. So far whimpering about copyright and DRM has done nothing utile but increase the span of copyright holders by many-fold. And increase the litigious locus of copyright to include billion dollar suits for the marvelously creative innovation of rounded corners.
It is totally ridiculous to believe that change will be effected through sniveling on a blog. If you want to make a difference, then you will have to demonstrate to the powers that be, that they are going to suffer if they do not change their ways.
If this is important to you, thenyou are going to have to fight for it.
Television shows are of such low quality I have no understanding of why anyone watches them. With few exceptions they are a waste of time, and I suspect destructive to neurological structures.
The solution to CBS and other purveyors of similar trash, the solution is quite simple. Allow them their copyrighted garbage, but don't watch it. See how quickly they will lose interest in copyright.
OK, you have done a whole lot of nay saying, but I have yet to hear you come up with any kind of alternative.
Any stronger statement by the the ACLU would likely lead to the attention of Mr Hang_Them_Without_A_Trial. Lower level politicians would also make hay of their opponents being weak on crime. Even though the crime rate is at a low.
While I agree with jury nullification in principle, it is a double edge sword. The cop I mentioned earlier who murdered a citizen who asked to see a nonexistent search warrant was nobilled by nullification in one of the more egregious abuses of the police state.
Between 2003 and 2014 years some 53 US citizens were killed in terrorist incidents. That number includes the perpetrators (https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths_FactSheet_Oct2015.pdf)
2016 is the first year that numbers of citizens killed are being counted. Many innocent of any violation, misdemeanor or crime, far more killed for no more reason than disobeying a cop. The number of citizens killed is expected to total around 1600. Large numbers of others have been beaten, mutilated, falsely charged and convicted. Yet the authorities and citizens refuse to make police responsible for their crimes.
Yet citizens are terrified of Muslims, but trusting of police. What kind of an answer do you have for this Ahem?
weruious was a typo, but your anger is making you wearisome. It is making you blind to the need for these and stronger jury instructions. That the juror is in the box to determine not only the behavior of the defendant, but the appropriateness of the law. As well as the behavior of the State.
You claim that the jury system is there to protect the citizen from the state, then complain when there are attempts to re-balance the levels of power that currently are overweighted in favor of the state.
Some jury instructions (yes, even for a grand jury) might have led to a better result than what happened. In the following case:
"A North Carolina grand jury chose not to indict a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a man after he demanded to see a warrant to search his home last year.
Harnett County sheriff’s deputies banged on John Livingston’s door last November, searching for an assault suspect who was not at the home.
Livingston demanded to see a search warrant, but the deputies had none, so Livingston shut the door in their face.
That prompted deputies to kick in the door where they dragged him out on his porch, placed him facedown, and began beating, tasering and pepper spraying him."
I have often wondered about criminality in our nation. A democratic republic, or whatever appellation you wish to provide, is reputed to be the best of all governmental types.
Yet with 5% of the worlds population, we have 25% of the worlds prisoners. And one of the highest recidivism rates.
I strongly believe that the ACLU's jury instructions are insufficient. If cameras are a part of the uniform of the day and missing or nonfunctional, or if the recording has been altered, the suspect is free to go, and the officer should be fired and have their peace officer license permanently lifted.
Such behavior on the part of the police is malfeasance, obstruction of justice and criminal.
Police should not have the ability to turn off a camera at any time while they are armed.
I consider myself a strict constructionist. But there were/are some major difficulties with some parts of the Constitution that needed/need addressing.
Slavery, women's suffrage, the truly screwed up language of the 2nd Amendment. The failure to provide real protection for citizens from governmental atrocities, or significant punishment for governmental authorities who do commit crimes. A failure of providing a mechanism for addressing grievances in a reasonable time.
These are but a very few of the failures of the Constitution. There are parts of it which embody some of the most wonderful concepts ever conceived of by man. But what value are they when they are unenforceable?
Unfortunately this technique, and others like it are nothing new. You will see more and them exercised more frequently in the coming months. This is quite possibly Comey's *quid pro quo* for the meaningless emails.
It solves the problem of the FBI committing multiple reprehensible crimes, because there is a new generic defense *ante ex post facto*. One (typically a member of upper government) may not be prosecuted for breaking a law that is currently no longer a law, no matter how heinous and blatant the crimes were.
You really need to shake the idea that this is a Democratic v Republican issue. The first massive data collection effort that I know of (outside of IRS and the census) was the 1987 sale of bundles of pen data to governments large and small by a leading communications company. That was as I recall a Republican administration.
This data gathering is a characteristic of parties in power, not their brand.
And no, I am neither D nor R, but rather a strict constructionist. The Constitution and the Amendments mean what they say they mean, not some asinine interpretation to fit some power hungry despots self serving twisted exegesis.
Past behavior is a good predictor of future behavior. The DOJ, FBI, et al, will abuse this to the point where nothing is private. Almost all notebooks have cameras and microphones, as do many desktops. Your computer is the panopticon of the future, if not the present.
And you really believe that elitism, prevarication and secrets are the within the unique purvey of the Democrats. I can't decide whether you are funny or sad. That either party gives a damn about your or your existence is just so amusing.
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Re: The police should really be trained better
They are taught to justify murder, being placed in fear of their lives, because the victim was reading a book.
They are taught which testilies are dependent for verification based on their word alone.
They are taught how to commit, and get away with every crime in the book, with an incredibly small chance of getting caught.
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I hear all too many people claim that crime is at an all time high. That people who commit minor violations should be jailed for life. And that if someone is arrested, they are guilty. I have no idea how the public should be educated, but it needs it desperately.
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Re: Every time they have to return stolen Money
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This would serve two purposes. First it would reduce the number of such cases, and secondly reduce the salary contests for corporate officers. /s
Makes no less sense than making copying a game a felony, and would do great collateral good.
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If they trademark "Winter is coming" can I hold them liable for all the damage done by Winter, the additional cost of heating, clearing snow and the increase in the price of produce? If, as it appears this year that winter is not coming, can snow based resorts sue them for lost profits?
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But if you want to bring about change, then it has to be a demonstration of power against power, not whining against power. So far whimpering about copyright and DRM has done nothing utile but increase the span of copyright holders by many-fold. And increase the litigious locus of copyright to include billion dollar suits for the marvelously creative innovation of rounded corners.
It is totally ridiculous to believe that change will be effected through sniveling on a blog. If you want to make a difference, then you will have to demonstrate to the powers that be, that they are going to suffer if they do not change their ways.
If this is important to you, thenyou are going to have to fight for it.
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The solution to CBS and other purveyors of similar trash, the solution is quite simple. Allow them their copyrighted garbage, but don't watch it. See how quickly they will lose interest in copyright.
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Any stronger statement by the the ACLU would likely lead to the attention of Mr Hang_Them_Without_A_Trial. Lower level politicians would also make hay of their opponents being weak on crime. Even though the crime rate is at a low.
While I agree with jury nullification in principle, it is a double edge sword. The cop I mentioned earlier who murdered a citizen who asked to see a nonexistent search warrant was nobilled by nullification in one of the more egregious abuses of the police state.
Between 2003 and 2014 years some 53 US citizens were killed in terrorist incidents. That number includes the perpetrators (https://www.start.umd.edu/pubs/START_AmericanTerrorismDeaths_FactSheet_Oct2015.pdf)
2016 is the first year that numbers of citizens killed are being counted. Many innocent of any violation, misdemeanor or crime, far more killed for no more reason than disobeying a cop. The number of citizens killed is expected to total around 1600. Large numbers of others have been beaten, mutilated, falsely charged and convicted. Yet the authorities and citizens refuse to make police responsible for their crimes.
Yet citizens are terrified of Muslims, but trusting of police. What kind of an answer do you have for this Ahem?
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Re: Re: Re: Ahem..
It is making you blind to the need for these and stronger jury instructions. That the juror is in the box to determine not only the behavior of the defendant, but the appropriateness of the law. As well as the behavior of the State.
You claim that the jury system is there to protect the citizen from the state, then complain when there are attempts to re-balance the levels of power that currently are overweighted in favor of the state.
Some jury instructions (yes, even for a grand jury) might have led to a better result than what happened. In the following case:
"A North Carolina grand jury chose not to indict a sheriff’s deputy who shot and killed a man after he demanded to see a warrant to search his home last year.
Harnett County sheriff’s deputies banged on John Livingston’s door last November, searching for an assault suspect who was not at the home.
Livingston demanded to see a search warrant, but the deputies had none, so Livingston shut the door in their face.
That prompted deputies to kick in the door where they dragged him out on his porch, placed him facedown, and began beating, tasering and pepper spraying him."
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2016/04/12/north-carolina-deputy-justified-in-killing-man-asking-f or-search-warrant/
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Yet with 5% of the worlds population, we have 25% of the worlds prisoners. And one of the highest recidivism rates.
What is wrong with this picture?
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Such behavior on the part of the police is malfeasance, obstruction of justice and criminal.
Police should not have the ability to turn off a camera at any time while they are armed.
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Re: Re: Re: Huh?
Slavery, women's suffrage, the truly screwed up language of the 2nd Amendment. The failure to provide real protection for citizens from governmental atrocities, or significant punishment for governmental authorities who do commit crimes. A failure of providing a mechanism for addressing grievances in a reasonable time.
These are but a very few of the failures of the Constitution. There are parts of it which embody some of the most wonderful concepts ever conceived of by man. But what value are they when they are unenforceable?
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It solves the problem of the FBI committing multiple reprehensible crimes, because there is a new generic defense *ante ex post facto*. One (typically a member of upper government) may not be prosecuted for breaking a law that is currently no longer a law, no matter how heinous and blatant the crimes were.
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Add to that the number of taps that are sealed under gag orders, or made without the knowledge of any one except other LEOs.
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This data gathering is a characteristic of parties in power, not their brand.
And no, I am neither D nor R, but rather a strict constructionist. The Constitution and the Amendments mean what they say they mean, not some asinine interpretation to fit some power hungry despots self serving twisted exegesis.
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