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SubaruStephen:
It's not how much $ they make, it's how they make it that chaps my ass. I'm talking about shit like this: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 07 Dec 2014, 15:36 ---"Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them"
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If a FPP doesn't meet a quota of prisoners, they lose their operating license. They certainly don't want law abiding citizens, that's bad for business.
And I agree with you on Asset "Forfeiture", that's just theft-by-cop masquerading as legal action.
GarandMarine:
Symptoms of the same issue my man.
Akima:
--- Quote from: GarandMarine on 07 Dec 2014, 20:23 ---Subaru, the money they make is peanuts compared to the revenue generated by the state via their enforcement arm.
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Which is a bad idea. From last weeks edition of The Economist:
--- Quote ---In Ferguson, bad policies help to explain why distrust turns to anger. Take, for example, the way the town is financed. In 2013 a fifth of Ferguson’s general revenues—some $2.6m, in a city of 21,000 people—were derived from fines and asset confiscation. That is equivalent to $124 a year for every man, woman and child in the city. Paying fines, even for minor traffic offences, can involve queuing for hours. Those who miss court dates can be jailed until they pay, accumulating more fines along the way. Slowly but surely, the justice system has become an elaborate mechanism for criminalising poverty.
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And where poverty is closely correlated with race... :-(
GarandMarine:
The quote is correct, it's scope is too small though. It's about criminalising all of us and fleecing us for even more money, and in turn makes everyone affected (i.e. everyone except those wealthy enough to swat away the petty nibbles of the justice system and the elite who don't care) poorer and poorer as the boot heel boots a little more pressure down. Thus returning us to Ms. Rand's quote.
94ssd:
A friend of mine recently pointed out to me that Shakespeare's lead characters often have somewhere else to be during most of Act IV so that the actor can have a break.
Romeo spends Act IV in Mantua. Hamlet, save for a brief scene, is in England. Macbeth has the witch's prophecy scene at the beginning but then the rest of the act is at Duncan's castle and about half of Act V is without him as well.
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