NatLawson

NatLawson t1_jdxq5ua wrote

Please. Bail is not to control suspects before sentencing. This governor's prescription to crime is to go back to a repressible guilty until proven innocent state.
Buffalo notwithstanding our colonial divisions are rude reminders of what not to do. Holding the accused until time served is not a criminal justice system. Bail reform brought us out of the septic system that is our denial of what we must do.

Our institutions promote safety and adherence to the law. Our schools and colleges educate reform practical ambition into success.

Our prisons only promote injustice and violence and are the lost causes of civilized rule. To put, in the hands of judges the exercise of prejudgements is to finish equality.

Bail only frightens and culls the entire population. We started the long walk towards an enabled democracy. Why stop now?

Mayor Adams and Kathy Hocul are uniquely disqualified to rein the potential of free and enabled electorate. Both are subject to rabbit holes and pitfalls.

Don't drink the Kool aid. It's spoiled.

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NatLawson t1_jdwkeie wrote

Therapy is really, really important. It will save you millions of dollars and leave you with your reputation intact.

If you are having frequent disagreements and cannot disengage for any reason, please find a therapist and unload. Please!

Woody Allen needed therapy. Charlie Sheen needs therapy. Robert Downey Jr needed therapy.

We all need therapy.

I hope Jonathan Majors can find peace along with the woman to whom he directed his anger. It's not okay.

Nor am I willing to dismiss this actor. He should have the privacy to find peace.

This is not the Will Smith slap. Dismissing the incident won't serve Mr. Majors

I do hope, growth and learning is on the agenda.

I am shocked by the accusation by not quite willing to dismiss a growing career.

Please see a therapist. Please publicly apologize to this woman.

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NatLawson t1_jdsebm3 wrote

Agreed. Not the point.

Explain the elements of obstruction of justice.

If the caller continues they can't later say their intent was not to obstruct.

Further, if the caller denied an intent to obstruct then continues to ask questions, the caller can't use the fifth amendment protection against self incrimination since a prosecutor will be able to refer to the call.

Republicans are short sighted. Interference with elections, interference with government proceedings, interference with grand jury proceedings are all forbidden by law.

Doubling down on forbidden actions will lead to a collapse of leadership and put whoever steps up will be an apologist.

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NatLawson t1_jds0aqv wrote

Record the phone calls.

A case can be made for obstruction of justice and meddling with an ongoing investigation.

Ask the starter if he or she is aware the conversation is being recorded? Ask who directed the phone call?

Ask if the caller is aware they may be interfering with a formal investigation and that the caller may be subject to law enforcement?

Ask if the subject is an attorney or if an attorney is available to advise the caller to obey the law and lawful intent to perform investigations in a lawful manner?

Ask if the caller understands the constitutional requirement that Grand Jury proceedings are secret. Attempting to pierce the veil of security surrounding the grand Jury proceeding may be an obstruction of justice in itself.

Inform the caller, continuing the call could result in a referral to the department of justice agency.

Then leave the line open.

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NatLawson t1_jdjitoh wrote

Not only profiteering, charter schools drive the illusion that teaching craft is responsible for an individual student's success.

Really, these cherry picked students are contorted into believing in exclusion of other children as key to their own salvation.

They are taught and trained into existential crises. "The drama of the gifted child." Alice Miller.

These children are hostages to the theory of white supremacy. Only adherents are granted the tax resources paid by their parents.

Charter schools are inherently unequal.

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NatLawson t1_jckda1x wrote

If "you" are a persistent felon. "You" should get bail. My point is, bail reform protects "you.". Please stop describing the law in terms of anyone else.

"You" have the right to the presumption of innocence. "You" have the right to due process. Bail is not punishment.

That said, if "you" demonstrate a persistence in criminal activity, "you" should be held until trial.

I agree completely with bail reform.

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NatLawson t1_jck65nu wrote

Innocent until proven guilty, which means - "you" can't be deprived of "your" liberty just because "you" are dating a policeman's ex-girlfriend.

Bail is not punishment.

It is the rightful exchange of equity for process time. If a person, "you" cannot afford bail, it is not "your" problem that the government needs time to prove "you" guilty.

If "you" are not an imminent threat to "your" community, the court "must" forgo bail. If you don't have a record of criminal activity, if you show up each time for hearings, if you pay your fines, "you" should not be forced to post bail.

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NatLawson t1_jbohhzz wrote

When will we learn to love George Santos? Just like Trump, he is a grifter. Of course he is an ATM skimmer. That makes total sense.

Right now, today he is negotiating the rights to his life story, the proceeds of which will go directly into Bitcoin, then to Russia along with every secret sensitive document he can lay his hands on.

Think about it? Where did George Santos money come from? You might think he sold his soul to the devil? No such thing as the devil. Russian spy?

Give the majority to Republicans? Ah ha! Hollywood script? Ah ha!

Top that with the FBI counterintelligence chief arrested for taking bribes?

In 1945, George Santos would disappear. That may still happen.

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NatLawson t1_jbktcos wrote

Please do not take this as defending cruelty.

This clear scoundrel should be roundly condemned. He steals from those who can least afford his insufferable nonsense. I want to point out, he is clothed in the wolf's clothing of infamy. Slavery and injustice is prolific in the history of the United States. His church members are the generations of victims of charlatans and misanthropes whose illness is prolific.

He is the same as Joel Osteen, Benny Hinn, Jim and Tammy Fae Baker, Kenneth Copeland and Peter Popoff. These ministers don't serve a deity. They serve themselves. They are monsters. They eat the lives of poor people without guilt or remorse.

It is horrible to watch. It is the legacy of slavery and intolerance.

We are better than this.

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NatLawson t1_j9wbti8 wrote

We have a lot of truth to get to. We are American taxpayers. Nothing more, nothing less. Simpletons should not determine the future of our tax dollars. Simpletons should not foster violence and destruction. Is that what you want? Hope, not fear is guidance for the future. Be glad the world agrees.

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