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by jMyles
3857 days ago
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What will this person have stolen? To whom will it belong? Someone will have to claim to be the victim. I guess still, we're talking past each other. We need to repeal laws against every one of those offenses except assault and theft (which will require a victim to come forward, again returning to my initial question). My assertion (and one that I think it quite clearly backed up by the evidence in history on the matter) is that these victimless crimes are created precisely to target (typically racial) groups. I don't view the unethical law and the racist enforcement as two different things, but as parts of the same motion. |
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Property from a collection of property owners who -just like much of the Dothan police department and parts of the DA's office and who knows who else- believe in the ongoing quest to target, harass, and jail a disfavored group of people?
I mean, have you personally known a rabid dyed-in-the-wool racist? I've known many. Several of whom would -if they had the means- jump at the chance to participate in such a scheme.
> We need to repeal laws against every one of those offenses...
We need to repeal laws that make illegal and/or unsafe possession of a firearm, trespassing, parole violations, and traffic violations illegal because... such laws could be used to disproportionately target a particular class of people?!
That's definitely throwing the baby out along with the bathwater.
Look. Your continued assertion that the biggest problem here is nuts-as-shit drug laws, and this would have never had happened if it wasn't for them is (deliberately?) obscuring the real problem.
What's the real problem?
* For roughly twenty years, evil people in positions of power successfully harassed, jailed, and -effectively- stole money and property from targeted members of a disfavored class of people.
* These evil people occupied positions of power in both the police force and the judicial system.
* Quash objections to their ongoing conspiracy.* Terminate an official police investigation into their conspiracy -long after it turned up hard evidence regarding the nature and scope of the conspiracy-
* Promote those who furthered the goals of the conspiracy to higher office (including State Director of Homeland Security!)
* Demote or remove from positions of power those who attempted to dismantle or shut down the conspiracy
I get that you don't like drug laws in this country.
There's a much bigger and much more important story here.