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You post is essentially rubber-stamping the government's civil forfeiture laws when it's against someone you (and the government) don't like, like this motel.
by erichocean 14y ago
You post is essentially rubber-stamping the government's civil forfeiture laws when it's against someone you (and the government) don't like, like this motel.
That's not justice, and frankly, no one should support the government's use of civil forfeiture, ever, for any reason, full stop.
Civil forfeiture is so abused by the government today as to be evil in and of itself. No "ends justifies the means" argument applies when it comes to civil forfeiture, in this case, or any other. It's that bad.
Of course, the government disagrees, as do you: that's what makes you "pro-government" in this case.
- tptacek 14y agoRidiculous. You could use the exact same logic to call me "pro-government" in supporting the government for suing to shut down a factory that pours mercury into a river. What the fuck does "pro-government" even mean? What an asinine line to argue. I'm anti-flophouse, like the government. I'm anti-military-occupation, unlike the government. I'm anti-copyright-infringement, like the government. I'm anti-patent-system, unlike the government. I'm anti-meth-lab, like the government. I'm anti-marijuana-prohibition, unlike the government. Do you want me to go on? Are you pro-abortion-clinic-bombings? You must be pro-government. Are you anti- workplace- race- discrimination? You must be pro-government. Are you uniformly against every intervention the government pursues? Is that the ideological line I to which I have to hew to meet your approval? I guess I'll have to do without that, then.
- rayiner 14y agoMan, you don't understand. They're like, "the establishment" man! You have to oppose everything they're in favor of. And be in favor of everything they oppose. Fight the power!
- tptacek 14y agoI feel like I'm being Dale Gribbled while everyone else thinks they're being Hank Hilled by me. I think I'll take a break and make some parsnip soup.
- jmcguckin 14y agoI'm curious about this 'anti flophouse' sentiment. Not everyone can afford $200 bucks a night for a hotel room. Poor people need a place to stay too.
- DanBC 14y ago> Poor people need a place to stay too. Yes, they do. It'd be nice if they could have a place to stay that didn't host meth-labs or dead heroin users.
- jlgreco 14y agoWhat would a cheap place do that would prevent such things? Strip search all their customers to make sure they did not have enough heroin to overdose on? The hotel isn't spawning this sort of shit, it is just attracting it by virtue of being cheap enough for low-lifes to afford. The local authorities are the ones that failed, not the motel.