Entire post +1.
Good to see you shark. Jail has proven that it is worthless in obtaining nearly EVERY purpose of the CJ system. It shouldn’t even be considered “ex-felon” because with a clean slate, there should be no record. I personally know a few felons, and depending on the stupidity of state/fed laws, and the overzealousness of prosecutors, even those who think they have clean sheets will come out dirty at some point.
Additionally, we’ll all be felons due to one law or another soon, which is the aim of this near dictatorship we live in. The corruption of LVMPD is rank, and it’s not confined to Vegas. This problem is systemic.
There should be NO, ZERO, city law enforcement officers. They should all be under the umbrella of the county sheriff, and there should be zero unions either. When three states have already made it a felony to record/video officers who are on duty, you know the full blown police state (far worse than a military state, I assure you) is nearly upon us. Wake up people, this Administration is getting, one way or another, essentially all of the goals it’s been reaching for, even if we only find our months and years later, like the increase in IRS officers (due to Obamacare), and arming them.
Watch what the other hand is doing, because these acts are going to increase exponentially. Mark my words.
It’s interesting you should mention the proliferation of felonies threatening to make the common man a felon; I finished “Three Felonies a Day” about a month/month-and-a-half ago and it is a stark warning about how the laws are a) being poorly written, b) being “rewritten” by government agencies [ie, the IRS can change a regulation/rule and *BANG* lots of tax-preparers are felons!] and c) being misapplied even contrary to what the normal meaning of the words are.
It is a fact that the United States of America could cease to become a Republic with just a few words: the congress passing a law which makes everyone felons, then no citizen can vote... or ‘legally’ own guns. Further, when you point out a blatant violation of the law to those in authority you are met with nothing but excuses and rationalizations. This is frightening to contemplate, but it seems like the law only applies “when they want it to.” {’They’ being those in power/authority.}
Just yesterday I pointed out to a sheriff that there is several state law violations of our state constitution, which prohibits the abridgment of the right of the Citizen to keep and bear arms... yet there is a state law that prohibits guns on campus. His argument was that the restriction of firearms in certain places was not an abridgment of the right to keep and *bear* arms and cited the CITY AND COUNTY COURTHOUSES! {This is particularly egregious because the second sentence in my State’s Constitution, which I showed him, reads: “No county or municipality shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.”}
According to that theory of Jurisprudence it would be insanely easy to get around the following (also from the State constitution):
Sec. 11. [Freedom of religion.]
Every man shall be free to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience, and no person shall ever be molested or denied any civil or political right or privilege on account of his religious opinion or mode of religious worship. No person shall be required to attend any place of worship
or support any religious sect or denomination; nor shall any preference be given by law to any religious denomination or mode of worship.
What you do is pass a law requiring all Jews (or Christians, or Muslims, or any other religious type) to wear [say] six-pointed stars on their clothes.
Then, pass a law stating that no person wearing a six-pointed star may vote.
I choose that example because it DOES hit people’s emotional nerves. But look at the rejection of logic here too! Many a child knows that if A means B, and B means C, then A means C! (Yet here we have this dismissed out of hand?) *BLAGHHHHHHH!*
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