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THE INCREDIBLY BRIEF STORY OF HOW WE GOT SCREWED - BY PAUL KRUGMAN
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/07/opinion/krugman-confronting-the-malefactors.html?ref=paulkrugman
In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending. In the second act, the bubbles burst — but bankers were bailed out by taxpayers, with remarkably few strings attached, even as ordinary workers continued to suffer the consequences of the bankers’ sins. And, in the third act, bankers showed their gratitude by turning on the people who had saved them, throwing their support — and the wealth they still possessed thanks to the bailouts — behind politicians who promised to keep their taxes low and dismantle the mild regulations erected in the aftermath of the crisis.
Given this history, how can you not applaud the protesters for finally taking a stand?
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Yo WTF'ers!
My mother was right. The world is going to Hell in a handbasket. The only thing she didn't predict was the lightning speed. Who knew handbaskets were faster than Ferraris?
Human dignity means nothing. Cops can do whatever the F they want to you with impunity. After all they are police orificers. They ought to be able to police your orifice.
The fate of the whiff of actual health care reform we got through the tortured bastard known as "ObamaCare" (as opposed to the GOP "Message - I Don't Care") apparently lies in the hands of Anthony Kennedy.
For you casual observers, no, he's not related to Jack or Teddy or Bobby or any of the fun Kennedys.
But he is alleged to be a moderate, hence, a rare bird on this lefty/righty split- down-the-middle grand poobah of jurisprudence. Dear Jurisprudence, won't you come out to play?
I was hopeful for Kennedy's potential ruling to uphold ObamaLamaDingDongCare (for what is health care if you can't take care of your dingdong?).
But now I'm afraid. I'm afraid that Anthony Kennedy may be a very smart freaking idiot. And by very smart, I mean, you likely don't get to be a SupCo robe wearing imperious legal muckety-muck if you're an idiot (unless you think pubic hair on Coke can humor is to die for).
And by freaking idiot I mean, the logic he used to legitimize strip searches for anyone arrested for anything, period, appears to this layman to be freaking idiotic.
Let's start at the beginning. These cops made a mistake and arrested someone they shouldn't have. So naturally, he had to be taken to jail and strip searched. Twice.
NYTIMES.COM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html?_r=1
The case decided Monday, Florence v. County of Burlington, No. 10-945, arose from the arrest of Albert W. Florence in New Jersey in 2005. Mr. Florence was in the passenger seat of his BMW when a state trooper pulled his wife, April, over for speeding. A records search revealed an outstanding warrant for Mr. Florence’s arrest based on an unpaid fine. (The information was wrong; the fine had been paid.)
Mr. Florence was held for a week in jails in Burlington and Essex Counties, and he was strip-searched in each. There is some dispute about the details, but general agreement that he was made to stand naked in front of a guard who required him to move intimate parts of his body. The guards did not touch him.
Oh, well, Golly Gee, if they didn't touch him than what's so humiliating and undignified about having to strip in front of a stranger, spread your butt cheeks, and show him your genitals on command?
There's already a legal way to do this, and that's why this decision is nonsense. The law in most states, generally speaking, says that if you have a good reason to have a reasonable suspicion that somebody might be hiding something, you can strip search them. This ruling is going to make it automatic, and that's ridiculous because it's unnecessary, humiliating, and, dare I say it, Un-American. (At least the America I would prefer to delude myself into thinking I live in).
And there's that whole 4th Amendment Unreasonable Search and Seizure thing.
But let's get back to the tortured logic, shall we?
NYTIMES.COM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html?_r=1
According to opinions in the lower courts, people may be strip-searched after arrests for violating a leash law, driving without a license and failing to pay child support. Citing examples from briefs submitted to the Supreme Court, Justice Breyer wrote that people have been subjected to “the humiliation of a visual strip-search” after being arrested for driving with a noisy muffler, failing to use a turn signal and riding a bicycle without an audible bell.
A nun was strip-searched, he wrote, after an arrest for trespassing during an antiwar demonstration.
Justice Kennedy responded that “people detained for minor offenses can turn out to be the most devious and dangerous criminals.” He noted that Timothy McVeigh, later put to death for his role in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, was first arrested for driving without a license plate. “One of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks was stopped and ticketed for speeding just two days before hijacking Flight 93,” Justice Kennedy added.
Yup. It's now legal to strip search you if you get pulled over for having a noisy muffler.
Nothing Orwellian about that, No Siree. Nothing to see here, just strip searching the poor guy who can't afford a new muffler right now, keep movin.'
A nun was strip searched for protesting.
A nun was strip searched for protesting.
A nun was strip searched for protesting.
Jesus, Mary, and Josephine Baker on a grilled cheese sangwich with the outline of Jesus on it, WTF?????????????????????????????????????????????????????
I was covering the OKC bombing when they caught McVeigh.
I remember thinking was a moron he was to drive a car without a license plate unless he pathologically wanted to get caught. But a strip search had NOTHING to do with it. He didn't have a Ryder Truck full of explosives hiding in his rear.
The 9/11 terrorist got a speeding ticket? And 9/11 still occurred. He wasn't hiding boxcutters up his butt. They were actually legal to bring on the plane.
So, he cites two examples that have NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with whether strip searches are effective and should be a routine matter whenever you get arrested, regardless of the charge.
NYTIMES.COM:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/us/justices-approve-strip-searches-for-any-offense.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1
“Turn around,” Mr. Florence, in an interview last year, recalled being told by jail officials. “Squat and cough. Spread your cheeks.”
“I consider myself a man’s man,” said Mr. Florence, a finance executive for a car dealership. “Six-three. Big guy. It was humiliating. It made me feel less than a man.
As you'll recall, it turned out Albert Florence was guilty of NOTHING. The cops MADE A MISTAKE.
Why they did a records search on HIM when it was MRS. FLORENCE who was speeding is beyond me. Of course, he was passenging while black.
The state being able to legally subjugate and humiliate without any good reason whatsoever to suspect you of possessing contraband in your butt cheeks is another example of a world gone plum loco. Using examples of people who were arrested for minor offenses who turned out to be major league criminals but whose cases had ZERO to do with a strip search, is a curious, puzzling, maddening, supremely RE-G.D.-DICULOUS way of arriving at the horrible conclusion.
The fate of Obamacare lies with this nut.
Awesome.
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