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Ok some cognitive dissonance here I see: If someone told you Brazilian police were taking people's cash you wouldn't for one second think there was some non se
by cloudjacker 10y ago
Ok some cognitive dissonance here I see:
If someone told you Brazilian police were taking people's cash you wouldn't for one second think there was some non self serving aspect to this. You wouldn't even look to see if there was any law supporting it. You would just dismiss it as corrupt police officers in a corrupt system, just like you should be doing in this case.
Forgot for a moment that you recited that pledge every morning for 13 years of your life, and think about how someone not from America would perceive this
- emodendroket 10y agoI'm not saying "hey, it's totally OK that they're doing this" or that it's not self-serving. What I'm saying is that these people are not exactly as sympathetic/blameless as some of the other asset forfeiture articles I've read.
- MaysonL 10y agoSo what? Drug dealers have constitutional rights too, and depriving them of their rights weakens your rights and my rights.
- cloudjacker 10y agonot blameless when viewed in support of a victimless crime and flawed law riddled with conflicts of interest, discriminatory discretion, and self serving ends. if you want a grand jury to find that the federal officers acted within agency guidelines, then great, you will continue to be able to sleep at night if you want the supreme court to continue to find those laws constitutional, then great you will continue to sleep at night. Eugenics programs are constitutional and so politically unpopular that all 50 states have laws that nullify the practice. The rest of us see this perverse practice for what is and would prefer if Congress modifies laws to instruct its agencies to stop the practice and stop funding themselves by taking citizen's money instead of preparing funding pitch decks for representatives which require oversight