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by Fezzik 11y ago
Sorry if I came across that way, I really do not think it is that black and white. At all. Nor do I think any person, police or not, is infallible. That said, the US is emphatically NOT a police state. East Germany and the Soviet Bloc were
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by Fezzik 11y ago
I am not sure this article leads to that conclusion. Most of this money comes from drug busts. You can argue about whether or not heavily addicting drugs like cocaine should be legal, but that $12 billion was not seized from John and Jane D
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by Fezzik 11y ago
That is primarily true because we are a heavily/overly militarized and protected country. If it were easier to frequently fly planes in to large buildings I think we can all agree religious extremists would be killing a significantly l
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Also alive and well in Alameda, CA, heading in to San Francisco (or at least it was last I visited in 2010). Because drivers get a reduced (free?) fare when crossing the bridge passengers queue at random corners that have been established o
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by Fezzik 11y ago
I probably ascribe to much influence to religion alone on its adherents, especially in the middle-east. That said, it seems the sheer number of crazy wars people have fought in the name of religion - the 30 Years' War, The Crusades, th
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by Fezzik 11y ago
While I wish this were true, do you not think the primary impetus is (likely) religious? I would wager these people are not crazy in any clinical sense; they have been deluded by a religious upbringing and culturally supported religious fer
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Agreed. Theft is theft. I want to write an article on this now and really research the numbers and number of cases - there appears to be a vast difference in when and how federal vs state forfeiture powers are exercised.
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Unfortunately no, I have never had any interaction with the feds and handling civil forfeitures. Reading a lot of the articles the majority of the problems appear to be with the feds and not local governments. So it could be that at the fed
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by Fezzik 11y ago
> Which county is that, and is your county representative of all counties in the US? Multnomah County, Oregon (I cited to our state statute though... most that I have seen are very similar). Seizure law is either State or Federal. > I
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by Fezzik 11y ago
It would be as easy as saying "I have a job" or "my grandmother gave me $2,000 for rent and necessaries". It could be done by a self represented person easily. And again, the person who has property seized from them alwa
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Not entirely. I would have to search hard to find the exact information, but it is primarily funded by the general fund. This is all at the state/county level though; I have no familiarity with federal civil forfeiture.
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Ugh, so much misinformation. Having lurked here for a while HN seems to think civil forfeiture is the boogie man. To clarify a few things, at least on the county level: 1) There are always drugs when property is seized this way. I review ev
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by Fezzik 11y ago
Based on the primary photo of refuse in the article the problem is not plastic bags but garbage in general. My city (Portland, Oregon) outlawed plastic bags years ago and messy parts of the city are still messy while clean parts of the city
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Disney fulfills dying fan’s wish with early screening the Force Awakens(consequenceofsound.net)
3 points by Fezzik 11y ago|0 comments
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by Fezzik 11y ago
As someone who was bothered by a fear of death from a young age, I always thought I would want to die in a blaze of glory - skiing off a huge cliff, skydiving, etc... But as I aged (still young, only 34) I found, what I think, is the perfec
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by Fezzik 11y ago
I think it is very feasible: in college you have opportunities for jobs where you can effectively get paid to study. I worked as: the greeter/pool ball distributor in my dorm every other weekend, the monitor in the cafeteria/study
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by Fezzik 11y ago
I would love to sleep at work but I am not allowed to (I work at a courthouse). Monday through Friday I work downtown, my gym is downtown, all my going out is downtown, I am and plan to be kid-free forever... if I could save the commuting t
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by Fezzik 12y ago
This may sound dismissive of drug addicts, but I know in Portland, OR, USA, we shut down all our public bathrooms at night because homeless/junkies use them as places to sleep, vandalize them, do drugs in them, etc... They became more
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NASA to Put Astronauts in Deep Sleep for Mars Mission?(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
1 points by Fezzik 12y ago|0 comments
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by Fezzik 12y ago
Actually, that is not true at all. When your property is seized you get a single-sided notification letter, which you must sign, that very clearly & briefly articulates the claims process.* * at least at the city level this is true; I r
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by Fezzik 12y ago
The study appears to be using "arrested" to mean "convicted of a crime for which the person could have been arrested (taken in to police custody)"? Example: I have never been arrested/taken in to police custody but,
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by Fezzik 15y ago
Concern has been expressed by some Bar associations (including mine in Washington) about using Google for professional legal email communications for privacy reasons/potential seizure of client information - like many governing bodies they
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Synching of SENT mail over multiple devices (iPhone/MacBook)
4 points by Fezzik 15y ago|5 comments