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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Apparently, there are unconfirmed reports of a man with a gun in the crowd.
Edit: They've detained a white man in his 30's or 40's.
edited 5th Nov '16 6:15:19 PM by KarkatTheDalek
Oh God! Natural light!The ACLU is suing the city of Santa Fe, Texas for running a modern day debtors prison.
Getty’s plan worked out pretty well for the town of 12,000 — and horribly for poor defendants who spent days in the city jail before seeing a judge, according to a federal lawsuit filed Thursday by the ACLU of Texas. By raising fees and nearly doubling the warrants issued for failure to pay, the city raised $225,562 from tickets in a year, according to the complaint, more than $20,000 higher than the previous year’s take.
The fee hike, according to ACLU attorneys, is just one piece of the city’s comprehensive strategy to extract as much money as possible from defendants, even those who can’t afford to pay. The city’s policies, the suit claims, have turned the Santa Fe City Jail into a “modern-day debtors’ prison,” where defendants languish until they can come up with more money, or sit out their debt at a rate of $100 a day.
“This city runs an appalling, modern-day debtor’s prison that is both unconstitutional and devastating to low-income members of its community,” said ACLU of Texas attorney Trisha Trigilio in a statement. Along with its lawsuit Thursday, the group announced a new report on similar arrangements across the state, including a list of 15 other cities that don’t provide court hearings before issuing warrants for nonpayment.
Santa Fe City Manager Joe Dickson told the Observer he couldn’t comment yet because the city hadn’t yet been served.
Supreme Court rulings and Texas law prohibit jailing a person for their inability to pay a fine, but many cities still operate de facto debtors’ prisons. A 2015 Buzz Feed News investigation revealed that judges in El Paso routinely jail poor people for failure to pay their fines; in April, the practice prompted a suit from the Texas Civil Rights Project. Amarillo, Austin, Mc Allen and Tyler have all been the subject of similar complaints in court and in the press.
The lawsuit filed Thursday describes an especially robust system for coercing defendants to pay the city’s fines, whether or not they can afford them. According to the suit, police routinely bring defendants to the city jail and leave them there for days. Texas law requires police to bring defendants before a judge “no later than the next business day after arrest,” according to the complaint, but many sit in the city jail for days.
State law says defendants are entitled to a hearing on their ability to pay, in which a judge must consider alternatives like community service or monthly payment plans, but according to the complaint, defendants in Santa Fe hardly ever receive one. Defendants might assert their rights more often if they had a lawyer, but the city’s website makes it clear that in municipal court, “No attorney will be appointed for you.”
Those who can’t pay must settle their debt with jail time, and the complaint details dangerous conditions defendants must endure: a lack of medical care, minimal supervision and a 720-calorie-a-day “starvation diet” of “one Pop Tart for breakfast, one Pop Tart for lunch, and [a] frozen meal, such as a Hungry Man frozen dinner, at night.” To his credit, the complaint says, “the [Police] Chief varies the flavor of Pop Tart and the type of frozen meal.”
On August 16, according to the suit, a woman in the jail alerted the city marshal that she “had not been fed for some time. … The Police Department supervisor on duty was completely unaware that this person had been booked into the jail.”
One popular argument against jailing people for not paying debts, beyond its unconstitutionality, is that mass incarceration can be so costly. That, at least, is less of a concern in Santa Fe. According to the lawsuit, the police department spends $4.11 a day on jail supplies, including food for all of its inmates — just a little more than the $3.84 it spends on its canine officer, Hondo.
edited 5th Nov '16 6:29:39 PM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."Short version, someone tried to launch a solo assassination attempt on Trump in a rally in Reno, Nevada, got close to the podium, but was taken down by security before he could pull the trigger.
The Express is one of the worst tabloids in the UK, right up there with The Sun and The Mail (The Express is owned by a UKIP donor).
Wait for a more reliable news source to report what actually happened and why.
edited 5th Nov '16 6:44:55 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Fingers crossed that this turns out to be a Trump supported trying to bring his gun so as to protect Trump from Clinton's ninja assassins.
edited 5th Nov '16 7:29:37 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranWhy angry white men love calling people "cucks".
Source: GQ
And it’s becoming increasingly obvious: these men have lost. They have watched the first black president elected into office twice become a positive symbol for the progress and promise of our nation, both domestically and overseas; they have watched women join the workplace and become empowered enough to speak out at the injustices they face. They have watched as a “politically correct culture run amok” has made it socially unacceptable to be racist in public.
But here is Donald Trump who says what he thinks no matter how many people call it sexist or racist, who promises to build a giant wall to keep non-white people out of the country, who makes being in charge seem easy. Trump doesn’t require a nuanced understanding of politics or statistics or complex trade agreements. He will say whatever he’s thinking. And in this election, he’s also appealing to a base instinct, something hardwired after generations of pernicious cultural feedback: a confident man knows better than a woman.
Because after all, what is being cuckolded but humiliation at the hands of a woman? The cuckolded man is at the mercy of a woman to choose to be with him or to be with someone else; she chooses the other as a punishment for his sexual inadequacy. If one’s insults represent their own fears, those who call others a cuck do so in the desperate hope that shreds of their own masculine and racial prominence can be protected.
When their party’s political candidate can retweet images from neo-Nazi websites and call the Jewish head of the DNC “highly neurotic” without reproach, when he can quite literally launch his political career by accusing our nation’s first black president of being born in Africa, when he can rank women on a scale of 10, call them fat pigs, say you need to “treat them like shit,” and still not take a hit in the polls, the angry white men who use the word “cuck” can exhale, safe in the understanding that, even if only for a few more years, their views are still shared by millions of other Americans. They will go on calling others “cucks,” pretending they’re not afraid of their own impotence.
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bawhaha, that's hilarious.
I mean, seriously? People really think that?
dear lord, I forgot just how cringeworthy that Hillary moment was. I know it was probably a rehtorical question, but asking who made Pokemon go? It didn't just suddenly spring forth from the ether Hillary. Its an IP that a company invented and cultivated.
But nice hurricane of puns
edited 5th Nov '16 8:33:28 PM by TheWanted
Being confident can't compensate for ignorance and incompetence.
Reminds me of an episode of Red Dwarf, where Dave Lister's sense of confidence gained a life of its own. It looked and acted like an obnoxious 1970s lounge lizard, and made such inane boasts as: "Who needs a space helmet in space? Oxygen is for losers!"
edited 6th Nov '16 4:26:22 AM by pwiegle
This Space Intentionally Left Blank.I wonder what sort of lines of sight can be established in halls like these anyway...
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiot@The Wanted
People really think what? That losers on the Internet throw around terms like "cuck" because they're subconsciously aware of their own inadequacy and are desperately projecting? Yes. Yes we do think that. The alt-right and its associates are a "movement" (boy do I use that term loosely) based on rampant insecurity and a need to bring everyone down to their own level.
edited 6th Nov '16 7:17:31 AM by AmbarSonofDeshar

That's what Trump would have done in that situation. He has this annoying habit (among others) of projecting his own faults onto his opponents, while conveniently overlooking them in himself or flat-out denying that they even exist.
The man is way beyond a pathological liar; he lives in his own separate narcissistic reality where he's perfect, he can do no wrong, he always wins, and the world revolves around him.
edited 5th Nov '16 6:01:49 PM by pwiegle
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