A year or two ago, rumor reached me of a medical technique that could be used to stretch subjective time so that a day in prison would feel like much longer. (Details, if any, forgotten.) Folks responded with horror and the concept seems to have vanished. But it seems quite appropriate for cases like this; no crooked prosecutor or cop will ever be confined for as long as his victim was (let alone all his victims combined), but …
When did T.S. come up with the phrase “party like it's 1989”? I might be able to dig out the issue of the libertarian zine The Connection (199x) in which Carol Moore used it to allude to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact (and linking it to the 11-year solar cycle).
Perhaps not summary, but if the defense declines to present evidence to rebut the plaintiff's allegations, the trier of fact is entitled to presume the allegations are true.
And yet it seems to me that slavery would have died sooner if the secession were successful than if it had never been attempted, for at least two reasons. The more obvious is that the Fugitive Slave Laws go away, the Underground Railroad becomes much shorter, and the Union stops pretending to give a damn about Abolitionist troublemakers.
My other reason is more … obscure? convoluted? contrived? reality-challenged? But here goes.
Slavery was a symbol, the defining feature of the Southern bloc in Congress. Having lost an early majority in the House as the North industrialized and prospered, Southern political machines clung to ensuring that (at least) half of the Senate represented slave states. In an independent Confederacy, slavery loses its symbolic value, and voters become more interested in its externalized costs.
I think forfeiture has a lot of potential that isn't being seriously considered. We could do away with so much paperwork if, instead of calculating what each person ought to pay in taxes, government agents simply go out and take as much as is needed from whoever happens to cross their path.
A suit against a cop for merely executing a valid warrant, i.e. not alleging any wanton property damage or abuse of the occupants, would be dismissed for failing to state any §1983 cause of action, before any invocation of immunity. So it's not that.
I think the difference is that there's plenty of precedent holding that it's wrong to, for example, get a warrant by lying to a judge; whereas no cop had ever previously been found liable (to an individual) for falsifying the record of a seizure so they could pocket part of it.
The owners of the property in that other case couldn't simply go after the cops for theft because technically (because the stuff was in State custody) they stole from the State, which has discretion not to prosecute.
Re: It's "rein them in"
Reign is what racists do, when they can.
Re: 32 years vs 'You can no longer do the thing you don't want t
A year or two ago, rumor reached me of a medical technique that could be used to stretch subjective time so that a day in prison would feel like much longer. (Details, if any, forgotten.) Folks responded with horror and the concept seems to have vanished. But it seems quite appropriate for cases like this; no crooked prosecutor or cop will ever be confined for as long as his victim was (let alone all his victims combined), but …
prior art
When did T.S. come up with the phrase “party like it's 1989”? I might be able to dig out the issue of the libertarian zine The Connection (199x) in which Carol Moore used it to allude to the collapse of the Warsaw Pact (and linking it to the 11-year solar cycle).
Re: Summary judgment
Perhaps not summary, but if the defense declines to present evidence to rebut the plaintiff's allegations, the trier of fact is entitled to presume the allegations are true.
Re: a most ingenious paradox
And yet it seems to me that slavery would have died sooner if the secession were successful than if it had never been attempted, for at least two reasons. The more obvious is that the Fugitive Slave Laws go away, the Underground Railroad becomes much shorter, and the Union stops pretending to give a damn about Abolitionist troublemakers.
My other reason is more … obscure? convoluted? contrived? reality-challenged? But here goes.
Slavery was a symbol, the defining feature of the Southern bloc in Congress. Having lost an early majority in the House as the North industrialized and prospered, Southern political machines clung to ensuring that (at least) half of the Senate represented slave states. In an independent Confederacy, slavery loses its symbolic value, and voters become more interested in its externalized costs.
one letter
Did Cuomo really write “fear-installing” rather than “instilling”?
Re: Hmmm
“any” is correct: there is no part of this that works their way.
stochastic taxation
I think forfeiture has a lot of potential that isn't being seriously considered. We could do away with so much paperwork if, instead of calculating what each person ought to pay in taxes, government agents simply go out and take as much as is needed from whoever happens to cross their path.
totally not advocating violence
It would be a shame if something were to happen to those members of the Court who voted not to hear any of the QI cases this term.
a question of scope
A suit against a cop for merely executing a valid warrant, i.e. not alleging any wanton property damage or abuse of the occupants, would be dismissed for failing to state any §1983 cause of action, before any invocation of immunity. So it's not that.
as we in-English say
Clearly Established
I think the difference is that there's plenty of precedent holding that it's wrong to, for example, get a warrant by lying to a judge; whereas no cop had ever previously been found liable (to an individual) for falsifying the record of a seizure so they could pocket part of it.
The owners of the property in that other case couldn't simply go after the cops for theft because technically (because the stuff was in State custody) they stole from the State, which has discretion not to prosecute.
Re: Alabama bo Babama Bonana fanna fo Fabama, Fee fy mo Mabama
whups, i forgot that asterisks have a special effect here, of course I meant L—d Sk—d
Alabama bo Babama Bonana fanna fo Fabama, Fee fy mo Mabama
Isn't the Ld Skd song in part a reply to Neil Young?
(untitled comment)
Is there an address to which I can send a letter asking simply “What the hell is wrong with you?” ?
sloppy handling
I think that's called “depraved indifference”?
Re:
But are cops required to fear for their safety every time they see a dog?
make one up
Provided that they do so in good faith, of course.
Incidentally, I'm a bit surprised that the word “pretext” appears nowhere on this page. —Oops!
when?
Wait, they were suspected of being former drug dealers?
pick a ratio
How many citizens commit a felony in a given year? Fewer than one in ten, I guess. That means we don't need the “justice” system, right?
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