moviefreakedmind said:
My vote doesn’t count where I live. I suspect that any letter to my representatives would be promptly filed in the garbage and pushing for change isn’t something I want to do and even if I did it’d be a waste of my time because no one cares about what I have to say.
Oh well.
The cops do have the power to be principled and not arrest people for victimless crimes.
So how far do you want that to go? who decides what is and is not a victimless crime.
Me. In all seriousness, it’s common sense.
To you it is common sense, maybe to me too. (although I once walked by people whom I think were smoking marijuana and the smell made me sick to my stomach and almost made me vomit)
No one with any grasp on reality thinks that marijuana is a dangerous drug worthy of being criminalized.
and yet it was criminalized. So I guess some people thought it was a dangerous drug.
I am not saying that it is a dangerous drug. If it is not, change the law. But don’t blame cops cause others passed a bad law.
They often don’t do that, though because the justice system and our private prisons thrive and throwing innocent people in jail.
huh?
Yeah, that was not my proudest grammatical moment. I said, “They often don’t do that [meaning looking the other way on drug possession charges] because people in our justice system and our private prison industry make so much money off of imprisoning people, even if they’re innocent or not deserving of being in prison.”
You do realize the powers that be can’t just throw people in jail, right? You do realize that people have a right to a trial in which a jury of their peers(and not government) decides their fate.
Like I said, principled men and women wouldn’t be a part of this. Sell-outs that want paychecks might be able to ignore their consciences enough to do it.
*sigh* (that is the only reasonable response I can think of to this.)
How is that reasonable and how is what I said unreasonable. I find it really insulting when I get disregarded as though I’m just some fool that isn’t even worthy responding to.
Then don’t post foolish things.
I am not totally against looking the other way sometimes.
On cases of drug possession (especially marijuana possession) any cop, judge, or prosecutor that doesn’t look the other way disgusts me and is immoral to the core and is antithetical to American freedom and I think we’d be better off if they were immediately removed from their positions of power.
Oh good grief.
What? Arresting someone and potentially ruining their life because they imbibed marijuana is a disgusting crime against humanity.
a crime against humanity?
Like I said if the law is bad, change it. But don’t blame the cops cause a bad law was passed.
and no one worthy of any respect would uphold laws allowing murder.
So you want the sheriff to just be able to do whatever he wants until it is not what you agree with.
No. I think he should do everything in his power to advocate for reforming the law and until that happens he should step down. You shouldn’t be able to sleep at night if you’re a part of this unjust bullshit.
Oh brother. It is easy to say that someone should quit their job when they aren’t the one with the job in question.
I’ve quit plenty of jobs that offended my sensibilities.
Well that is great for you. Others like their job. Others have bills to pay and mouths to feed.
He can advocate for reform without quitting his job.
He doesn’t even seem to be doing that.
I don’t know that it is the sheriff’s job to do that. It is the sheriff’s job to enforce the law(whether he agrees with the law in question or not)
Might sometimes come to that in extreme circumstances like that holocaust, yes. I don’t see this situation as that extreme.
Why do we have to let it get that extreme before taking a stand?
Because otherwise you don’t have a law abiding civilized society. The law is not a suggestion or advice.
I’m saying that I don’t respect cops because I don’t respect the laws and systems that they uphold. If anything, I’m saying that the respectable cops need to wake up and get out of their police departments.
So you are saying you don’t like a American and our Constitutional, democratic republic form of government. Got it. I can’t say I am shocked by this.
I would argue that what we have now makes a mockery of the democratic republic form of government that our Constitution is supposed to guarantee us. Corrupt people have more or less monopolized the power in this country and present us with shitty choices each election cycle. My vote, because I’m surrounded by people diametrically opposed to everything I stand for, counts for nothing in elections at the local, state, or federal level. Presumably that is not what “a American” government was supposed to be.
If you are surrounded by people diametrically opposed to everything you stand for, there is nothing the government can do about that.
I didn’t ask them to do anything about that. I was just explaining why my vote counts for nothing where I live.
It sometimes happens that one is in the minority. (unless you either want the government to force you or those around you to move)
It wouldn’t matter where I live, I’d still be a minority on some level. I feel like a total immigrant in this life and don’t think of myself as a member of human society.
*sigh*
