HAPPY NICE-ISH TIMES TO ALABAMA where Governor Kay Ivey is planning to sign a bill making it a little easier for people to vote in the Heart of Dixie. Sure, your state illegally disenfranchised thousands of people and the federal courts were probably going to force you to knock it off anyway. But the important thing is,
Thanks for demonstrating just who it is who is not interested in being willing to follow the law, yet is demanding the right to make the law for everyone else.
You know what? I think I'll say that YOU should be denied the right to vote, because based on your bullshit here, you're likely to try to disenfranchise citizens or otherwise violate their civil rights in the future.
After all, it's FAR easier and more common to turn a convicted felon into a law-abiding citizen than it is to rid a white-supremacist of their arrogant bigotry.
Thompson’s journey through the state’s justice system has left her saddled with $40,000 in legal debt she cannot pay, another disqualifying factorHow is this not a fucking poll tax?
Plus, how is this not a crushing disincentive to assert your rights? "You want to take the state to court? Fine. But if you lose, you're on the hook for tens of thousands in 'court costs.'"
"Contrary to what its detractors say, the Memorial Preservation Act is intended to preserve all of Alabama's history - the good and the bad - so our children and grandchildren can learn from the past to create a better future."
Senator Allen, I don't think that having monuments to and schools and roads named after Confederate generals indicates that the Confederacy (and slavery) was bad.
"Equal justice under law" is allegedly the goal. Violations should penalize miscreants in a roughly equal manner. As h4 brings up, equal fines are hardly equal justice. He proposes equal time in community service as equal justice. Others rightly point out that time is more precious (and perhaps not even available) when one works two or more jobs to support a family that also needs your presence.1. Equal justice under the law is a wild dream rather than an achievable ideal.2. The problem relates directly to wealth disparity, a rapidly increasing reality in this "liberty and justice for all" nation.3. Trump and Republicans aren't helping but are making it worse, by design.4. I'm investing in pitchforks, torches, boiling oil, tumbrels, and guillotines.
I agree. Denying a person any rights post sentence is equivalent to saying that the system does not work. If that is the case then the solution is to change the system.
Similarly: it is said that the 1979 revelation from the good Lord to the Mormon President that black people had souls after all did wonders for BYU's basketball squad.
Yep. In the Army, for some reason, black Yankees had occasional trouble with black southerners. I always saw it as black southerners being more tribal and demanding that others fall in line with their culture, on account of the basically two race culture existing in the south. Not that black northerners don't have their own differing bits? But its not as demanding as in the south.
If having $40,000 worth of legal debt is a reason to have one's right to vote revoked, half of Congress and 100% of the Trump administration wouldn't be allowed near the polls.
Even in Arizona where the State Supreme Court just ruled that cops cannot do search and seizure solely based on the fact that someone lives in a high-crime area.
Funny, I'd figure being a big ol' racist in 2017 would be a REALLY good definition of 'moral turpitude,' but what do I know?
The proportion need not be linear. Or make it dependent on net worth rather than income.
Thanks for demonstrating just who it is who is not interested in being willing to follow the law, yet is demanding the right to make the law for everyone else.
You know what? I think I'll say that YOU should be denied the right to vote, because based on your bullshit here, you're likely to try to disenfranchise citizens or otherwise violate their civil rights in the future.
After all, it's FAR easier and more common to turn a convicted felon into a law-abiding citizen than it is to rid a white-supremacist of their arrogant bigotry.
Simplifies the paperwork, though.
Thompson’s journey through the state’s justice system has left her saddled with $40,000 in legal debt she cannot pay, another disqualifying factorHow is this not a fucking poll tax?
Plus, how is this not a crushing disincentive to assert your rights? "You want to take the state to court? Fine. But if you lose, you're on the hook for tens of thousands in 'court costs.'"
"Contrary to what its detractors say, the Memorial Preservation Act is intended to preserve all of Alabama's history - the good and the bad - so our children and grandchildren can learn from the past to create a better future."
Senator Allen, I don't think that having monuments to and schools and roads named after Confederate generals indicates that the Confederacy (and slavery) was bad.
I hereby define "moral turpitude" to be "a registered or office-holding Republican".
And that they can interpret whichever way their small-minded hatred takes them.
"Equal justice under law" is allegedly the goal. Violations should penalize miscreants in a roughly equal manner. As h4 brings up, equal fines are hardly equal justice. He proposes equal time in community service as equal justice. Others rightly point out that time is more precious (and perhaps not even available) when one works two or more jobs to support a family that also needs your presence.1. Equal justice under the law is a wild dream rather than an achievable ideal.2. The problem relates directly to wealth disparity, a rapidly increasing reality in this "liberty and justice for all" nation.3. Trump and Republicans aren't helping but are making it worse, by design.4. I'm investing in pitchforks, torches, boiling oil, tumbrels, and guillotines.
I agree. Denying a person any rights post sentence is equivalent to saying that the system does not work. If that is the case then the solution is to change the system.
Similarly: it is said that the 1979 revelation from the good Lord to the Mormon President that black people had souls after all did wonders for BYU's basketball squad.
Yep. In the Army, for some reason, black Yankees had occasional trouble with black southerners. I always saw it as black southerners being more tribal and demanding that others fall in line with their culture, on account of the basically two race culture existing in the south. Not that black northerners don't have their own differing bits? But its not as demanding as in the south.
If having $40,000 worth of legal debt is a reason to have one's right to vote revoked, half of Congress and 100% of the Trump administration wouldn't be allowed near the polls.
Even in Arizona where the State Supreme Court just ruled that cops cannot do search and seizure solely based on the fact that someone lives in a high-crime area.
Are those those snowflakes in hell I keep hearing about?