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If 'danger to the community' is a term of art that sets a standard for imprisonment/bail, then it's not so cut and dried as to say that the guy seems harmless s

If 'danger to the community' is a term of art that sets a standard for imprisonment/bail, then it's not so cut and dried as to say that the guy seems harmless so the judge is lying. Clearly this guy exploited a security problem that endangers the community, and clearly he didn't physically harm anyone during his time in the airport.

marcosdumay 6y ago
> exploited a security problem that endangers the community Well, it's not his fault the security problem endangers the community. The US felony system is quite absurd. This guy is now marked for life for trespassing into a public space, based on the subjective opinion of a judge that despite him not harming anybody for 3 months, he is a danger to the community.
- _n_b_ 6y ago
  > This guy is now marked for life [...] based on the subjective option of a judge That is not quite what this is. He hasn’t been convicted of anything; the judge is determining the conditions on which he can be released before the trial happens and making that determination requires the judge to weigh the available evidence and apply a legal standard—albeit one where ‘danger’ doesn’t align with its everyday definition-to determine if some level of monetary bail is required. I do agree that he may well be marked for life and in the sense that Google will remember this event forever, even if he is acquitted at trial.
scotty79 6y ago
This term if built out of actual words that have actual meaning. Why call it danger-to-community if he's is not a danger to community? If you want arbitrary label you want to assign arbitrarily why not call it ooglaboogla instead? At least you wouldn't be lying while using it.
baobabKoodaa 6y ago
Well, if "danger to the community" is a requirement to set bail, and this guy was not a danger to the community, then the judge could have simply... not required bail?

marcosdumay 6y ago

> exploited a security problem that endangers the community Well, it's not his fault the security problem endangers the community. The US felony system is quite absurd. This guy is now marked for life for trespassing into a public space, based on the subjective opinion of a judge that despite him not harming anybody for 3 months, he is a danger to the community.

_n_b_ 6y ago
> This guy is now marked for life [...] based on the subjective option of a judge That is not quite what this is. He hasn’t been convicted of anything; the judge is determining the conditions on which he can be released before the trial happens and making that determination requires the judge to weigh the available evidence and apply a legal standard—albeit one where ‘danger’ doesn’t align with its everyday definition-to determine if some level of monetary bail is required. I do agree that he may well be marked for life and in the sense that Google will remember this event forever, even if he is acquitted at trial.

scotty79 6y ago

This term if built out of actual words that have actual meaning. Why call it danger-to-community if he's is not a danger to community? If you want arbitrary label you want to assign arbitrarily why not call it ooglaboogla instead? At least you wouldn't be lying while using it.

baobabKoodaa 6y ago

Well, if "danger to the community" is a requirement to set bail, and this guy was not a danger to the community, then the judge could have simply... not required bail?