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Pelosi calls for Spicer's firing after Hitler remarks
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/328348-pelosi-calls-for-spicers-firing-after-hitler-remarks?amp
Because it keeps the poor from voting.
James Madison said it best:
tldr; Protect the rich from the poor or else the poor people will take all the stuff from the rich people.
I mean our Founding Fathers intended only for established white men to vote.
As John Jay said" The men who own the land ought to govern it."
Here's a good response about it I found by googling:
Of the models discussed, he noted that democracy was probably best, but it had one fatal flaw: if every person got a vote, and all votes were counted equally, the poor would organize together and take all the wealthy peoples' stuff.
Aristotle's proposed solution was to reduce inequality by creating a welfare state. His reasoning was that if poor have enough to live reasonably well, they won't be sufficiently motivated to organize and take the wealthy peoples' stuff.
James Madison, having read Aristotle's work, was well aware of the flaw in democracy Aristotle identified. He didn't agree with Aristotle's solution, though. He proposed, instead, to structure the system of government in a way that guaranteed the wealthy got to make all the big decisions.
The primary way this was achieved was through the Senate, a small group of unelected (at the time, Senators were appointed) politicians who were loyal to monied interests and would serve very long terms. This provided the hedge against the "Tyranny of the Masses" Madison feared, without having to create the welfare state Aristotle had proposed.
edited 11th Apr '17 1:58:22 PM by MadSkillz
Best way to remedy this? Not only restoring the Voter Rights Act (and making it stronger) AND, push for everyone to have their own I.D. like Germany does, and codify it explicitly in Federal Law that its a universal form of ID for all intents and purposes, so if in the low chance the GOP tries to do its ID bullshit AGAIN, there's multiple barriers that prevent them from being successful as they are now.
New Survey coming this weekend!And we also need to get minimum wages and other poverty-remedying measures enacted so that, as Aristotle observed, the poor don't feel the need to exercise their franchise to tear down the system.
Note that I am not a subscriber to the democratic fallacy, in which decisions made by the majority are axiomatically superior. The majority are fully capable of being ignorant, ill-informed, and otherwise obnoxious. It's just that there's no alternative that doesn't devolve into some form of oligarchy and autocracy given time.
edited 11th Apr '17 2:01:00 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Because what's relieving students from crushing debt and preventing defaults every ~30 seconds have to do with an economy (and morality, but I've trimmed back my expectations since last year.) Won't someone please think of the children...
AG (Sessions) to federal prosecutors: Get tough on illegal immigration
In a three-page memo he sent the nation’s U.S. attorneys, Sessions told them to prioritize prosecuting people caught smuggling others into the U.S.; illegally reentering the country after being deported; committing identify theft and document fraud; and assaulting immigration enforcement officers.
“For those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned: This is a new era,” Sessions told U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials during a visit to the southwest border in Arizona Tuesday. “This is the Trump era. The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws and the catch and release practices of old are over.”
edited 11th Apr '17 2:24:49 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our livesJulian Assange gets called our during a recent interview for calling Trump and Clinton equally dangerous
Speaking from a border port of entry in Nogales, Arizona, Sessions used stark language to announce measures the Justice Department will take to deter illegal immigration, including vigorous enforcement of human smuggling and identity fraud laws.
“For those that continue to seek improper and illegal entry into this country, be forewarned,” Sessions said in remarks prepared for delivery. “This is a new era. This is the Trump era.”
Sessions’ trip to the border Tuesday brings the focus back to immigration, even if the border wall remains more rhetoric than reality. In his Nogales speech, Sessions stressed the dangers of criminal gangs, whose members “turn cities and suburbs into warzones,” “rape and kill innocent citizens” and — perhaps most relevant to his message — profit from the trafficking of people across the border.
[[quoteblock]]“Depravity and violence are their calling cards, including brutal machete attacks and beheadings,” he said. “It is here, on this sliver of land, where we first take our stand against this filth.”
edited 11th Apr '17 2:41:00 PM by MadSkillz
If the rest of Latin America is anything like Argentina on this issue, we got universal mandatory male suffrage as a result of massive protests. And it was mandatory because before that happened the people in power pretty much picked and chose who would vote (threatened those who would vote for another candidate, packed the vote by ordering their employees to vote for the ones they wanted to win, etc). Since every male citizen over 18 had to vote (and, of course, eventually women too), there was a need to check that people were voting, so we got universal ID.
As far as I know, in the US, it's more like, since the beginning anyone who wanted to (and was white and male) voted, there was never a need to make sure people would vote, and since there were active attempts to make some people not vote, there were never systems in place to make sure everybody did.
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Assange is disgusting.
The Alabama Senate voted for the church to create its own police department:
Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 24-4 to allow Briarwood Presbyterian Church in Birmingham to establish a law enforcement department.
The church says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe.
Critics of the bill argue that a police department that reports to church officials could be used to cover up crimes.
The state has given a few private universities the authority to have a police force, but never a church or non-school entity.
Police experts have said such a police department would be unprecedented in the U.S.
edited 11th Apr '17 3:39:54 PM by MadSkillz
Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll backfire A Song of Ice and Fire style
That's what you call hiring a security guard. Unless the very local government is going to the trouble of establishing a police department or hiring out their officers for the church events. In the event of paying a local police department for their services, the police wouldn't be answering directly to the church.
This is very weird, just as a situational thing.
No, it's not hiring security guards. They're actual police officers.
Here's the bill:
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED AN ACT
To authorize Briarwood Presbyterian Church, organized as a nonprofit church under Alabama's nonprofit corporation law, to employ police officers under certain conditions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:
Section 1. (a) The Board of Trustees of Briarwood Presbyterian Church, organized as a nonprofit church under Alabama's nonprofit corporation law, may appoint and employ one or more persons to act as police officers to protect the safety and integrity of the church and its ministries. Persons employed as police officers pursuant to this section shall be charged with all of the duties and invested with all of the powers of law enforcement officers in this state.
(b) Every police officer appointed and employed pursuant to this section shall be certified by the Alabama Peace Officers Standards and Training Commission and shall meet all of its requirements, including continuing education.
(c) The authority of any police officer appointed and employed pursuant to this section shall be restricted to the campuses and properties of Briarwood Presbyterian Church.
Section 2. This act shall become effective immediately following its passage and approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.
edited 11th Apr '17 3:47:42 PM by MadSkillz

edited 11th Apr '17 1:47:54 PM by speedyboris