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I find it particularly reprehensible when single parents are pressured into pleading guilty by the threat of their children disappearing into the black hole of child protective services. Your kids aren’t taken away but you are saddled with a criminal record when a decent lawyer might have gotten charges dismissed or never filed in the first place.
I find it particularly reprehensible when single parents are pressured into pleading guilty by the threat of their children disappearing into the black hole of child protective services. Your kids aren’t taken away but you are saddled with a criminal record when a decent lawyer might have gotten charges dismissed or never filed in the first place.
It’s a disgrace.
I suspect it's because the Law Enforcement agencies don't want to waste time and resources finding the true perps, so by and large, they go after the "Low Hanging Fruit" because it's easier...
If the human brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't understand it.
Indians are being held up as a model minority. That's not helping the Black Lives Matter movement
- 29/06/2020 06:59:25 PM
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As part of the "model" minority
- 29/06/2020 08:18:17 PM
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How have you failed?
- 29/06/2020 10:31:17 PM
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Are we trying to assign blame and guilt, or are we trying to observe and then create a change in
- 29/06/2020 11:13:24 PM
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I still don't do enough. Silence and inaction are failure enough
- 30/06/2020 03:29:29 AM
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Re: I still don't do enough. Silence and inaction are failure enough
- 30/06/2020 04:51:12 PM
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I have to be honest, the privilege argument is dubious.
- 30/06/2020 04:19:42 AM
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Some thoughts...
- 30/06/2020 06:19:28 AM
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Re: Some thoughts...
- 30/06/2020 02:08:10 PM
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It's true that part of it is just America treats all its poor people so terribly.
- 30/06/2020 09:35:40 PM
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here is an interesting article on mass incarceration in the USA.
- 30/06/2020 02:30:09 PM
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Wow, good stuff, thanks for posting! *NM*
- 30/06/2020 02:57:08 PM
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It's disturbing to see statistical proof the system is stacked against those with limited assets. *NM*
- 30/06/2020 08:10:41 PM
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Interesting read indeed.
- 30/06/2020 08:29:53 PM
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I have three anecdatas
- 30/06/2020 09:23:10 PM
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Okay... this is just like old times, when I'd often have no idea what you were getting at. 
- 30/06/2020 09:49:03 PM
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- 30/06/2020 09:49:03 PM
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The Jury Trial
- 30/06/2020 11:51:54 PM
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It’s easy to understand why.
- 01/07/2020 12:09:44 AM
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There's more
- 01/07/2020 12:55:57 AM
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I agree
- 01/07/2020 02:04:50 AM
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Re: I agree
- 01/07/2020 02:09:14 AM
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Oh god yes, I've heard of several instances of that
- 01/07/2020 03:49:42 AM
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So you see that compassionate conservatives can exist? We aren’t mythical creatures? *NM*
- 01/07/2020 03:55:45 AM
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I sincerely hope you aren't serious about this...
- 01/07/2020 04:01:57 AM
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It was a little tongue in cheek
- 01/07/2020 04:20:08 AM
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Re: It was a little tongue in cheek
- 01/07/2020 06:23:20 AM
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a couple of points
- 01/07/2020 07:42:32 PM
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What do you know about Biden's health that we don't know? *NM*
- 01/07/2020 08:53:45 PM
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anyone who hears him speak unscripted can tell there is a big issue. *NM*
- 01/07/2020 09:47:20 PM
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Mook - Fionwe is a radical. You are not.
- 01/07/2020 04:33:45 PM
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yes I suppose it was a foolish comment.
- 01/07/2020 05:44:05 PM
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I'm honestly not sure if.you even meant it...
- 01/07/2020 07:38:26 PM
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It amuses me...
- 01/07/2020 07:03:43 PM
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You're welcome. Come again. XOXO
- 01/07/2020 07:05:11 PM
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Aww
- 01/07/2020 07:36:55 PM
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Sweetie, we can always zhuzz it up! First we need some more glitter.
- 01/07/2020 07:39:42 PM
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Waterloo seems the most appropriate for the moment...
- 01/07/2020 10:01:33 PM
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No, darling. We're playing Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
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"most on nonviolent drug charges"
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read the article I posted. That's one of 5 myths about USA prisons. *NM*
- 30/06/2020 09:44:19 PM
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I was reading the article just before you posted it. Probably the same google search
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Regarding the Census, neither Left nor Right state that the US will remain majority White.
- 01/07/2020 04:03:57 PM
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This White/Non-White Binary choice is simplistic. And leaves no room for nuance.
- 01/07/2020 03:46:17 PM
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Absolutely right, I read an interesting article on this a while ago.
- 01/07/2020 10:58:59 PM
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You have a binary choice...
- 02/07/2020 12:10:49 AM
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I agree with all of this, but lets think of it from a different point of view.
- 02/07/2020 12:24:38 AM
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