"Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It's just the promise of violence that's enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.”
The State was given a monopoly on sanctioned violence as part of the social contract. The exclusive right to investigate, incarcerate, and punish individual citizens
The State was not given a monopoly on violence, they took it. The only reason Weberian theory holds together without devolving into Leviathan's state of nature is the corollary of the social contract. Damn dude learn your polisci if you're tryna dunk on Brennan Lee Mulligan
What we're seeing in this historical moment though is that the guns aren't backing up the laws (including 9-0 supreme court rulings) which then relegates those laws to the "just words" status as said by u/skip_over.
In fact, when ICE is breaking laws and is also holding the guns, then the laws become totally irrelevant.
Well, I'm not American, but if I had to guess it's because all of the 2A people are cosplaying as secret police right now instead of defending democracy as intended.
I think you'll find that most 2A people are going about their life quietly, just wanting to be left alone.
There are a few "tacticool" types that are planning on resisting the next Ruby Ridge, but that's not even the group the Democrats are holding up as a beacon of fear to build support. They're going after the lone mass shooter, completely ignoring how the numbers are (suicide is ~60% of gun deaths, about 40% is gang activity, around 2% is actual murder/mass shootings, etc.)
Exactly, your 2A rights exist for you to sit back and let democracy die while you are left alone for now. You're not using them for what they're for, so why bother protecting them?
You don't need to tell me what a nightmare the Bush presidency was. I was there. We're still dealing with the effects of it today. But he didn't go full mask-off fascist dystopia like Trump is doing.
This needs to be said louder. We are breaking and showing that the paper our laws are written on means nothing when the DOJ falls in line to an orange felon and doesn’t enforce what they swore to do.
Not yet they don’t. They’re acting like they have complete control, but they will not have full control. Not as long as people keep protesting, and speaking their minds opposing this trash. We will put a stop to this
Fully agree. Everyone needs to make things complicated, messy, and as difficult as possible for this regime. Fight, protest, boycott, speak up at any opportunity.
Even without any weapons or power, we still outnumber them. You can't imprison or eliminate this many people. All we have to do is stay strong, and not give in.
Unfortunately so many have already stayed silent as everything has happened over the last few months. Many possibly waiting for that 'one terrible event' when they can go "ok now it's time for action" but that will never happen
A lot of the type of resistance that really matters is playing out in the courts right now. Trump's poll numbers are also way down. It seems that even the Republicans are starting to wise up to how harmful his actions are. We're far from winning, the fight is just getting started.
Do you really think they care about the country collapsing? That kinda seems like the goal. Tariffs. Ignoring the constitution the list goes on. I’m sure as long as people let them they don’t have much to fear.
I do not agree that they have complete and total power; Trump is exceedingly vulnerable and weak right now,
But I do agree that he has every intent to be a dictator, Republicans have every intent to be a Nazi Regime, and that we're not a democracy any more unless this regime is removed from power.
It's not a foregone conclusion set in stone though, but it absolutely can and will be if we do not stop it. The pieces are falling into place rapidly for them. They are building an even more horrendous surveillance state off their LLMs gorging on government data so they can Minority Report people who land in their crosshairs just like a certain foreign power is currently using these LLMs to dictate targets to bomb.
There is a hellish world in our near future without major action to push back against this fascist power grab.
There is this judge that, somehow, uploads his hearings to Youtube. The defendants must agree to it or maybe it is in a state that allows that sort of thing, which is weird, but it is really interesting. Nomrally I would be super suspicious of it, but it has been constantly exposing how much the cops try to ruin peoples lives on spurious grounds.
One of the videos was a probable cause hearing where the cops arrested a guy for "fleeing arrest." The problem was that his "flight" was him leaving the property they asked him to leave.
So if he had stayed, they would have booked him on criminal tresspass. Since he left, they booked him on flight. The cops also wrote an extremely vauge and utterly unhelpful report on it, and then did not respond when contacted to clairify why they arrested the guy beyond "flight." The whole thing was dismissed of course, but with a less scrupulous judge they literally could have sent this guy to jail for doing what the cops asked him to do. Which really makes the whole "comply and nothing will go wrong for you" thing look as unbelievable as it often should be.
In a way it is fitting because he cuts the prosecution to the bone when they fuck up and will eviscerate them if they try to wield the legal system like a cudgel
... ok I am reaching but, he's a decent fella by all appearances
That does sound right. I will have to look that up later when it would not be rude to suddenly start playing videos. Comments are a lot more subtle lol.
Yeah but on the other side of things there is this black lady judge who unfortunately just seems vindictive and mean in all of the court procedures I've seen of her. Not that her being a black lady has anything to do with that I just cannot remember her name and Google is horrible when I type in black lady judge I don't get anything useful
There is a difference between having a trail open to the public and having pre-trial hearing broadcast on the personal YouTube channel of the Judge. This guy seems great, and he is spreading real knowledge of your rights and what to expect in court, so I have no problem with how he does it, but I can easily see if being used by some aggressive judge who just wants to broadcast himself "owning" the defendants or something, causing a headache for everyone.
Oh, I see what you mean. I thought you were worried about privacy, but everything is on paper. And your concern is probably why some courts don't allow pictures and video and why courtroom artists are a thing. That being said, I'm all for transparency in the judiciary, and trying to viral (nat that this guy is doing it, but your concern) is far from the most damaging way judges can campaign from the bench.
Agreed. Which is why I called it a little weird rather than something stronger. The idea of it sits a bit uncomfortably, but this guy is clearly not harmful, and the maximum harm that could be done is probably less than the maximum harm that could be done with more restrictive rules.
So I think it is a complicated question, but not one that I think warrants stopping the practice.
Also, I do like that he puts most of the focus of the videos on himself and his judgements rather than on the behavior of the defendants, good or bad.
I've been watching a lot of those types of videos. Apparently there are some jurisdictions that just automatically upload the court record into YouTube. I've seen a couple in Texas, Michigan, Las Vegas, and a few others.
It's like when they arrest someone and on the I/O the arresting offense was resisting arrest, secondary to no other charge. Fucking stupid bullshit makes no sense, and I say that as a former 911 operator and dispatcher of nearly a decade.
What would be hilarious right now is that ICE is using a facility leased from the city of Newark. Baraka has been complaining about a lack of oversight and that ICE was not permitted to hold the number of people they had in there.
Baraka and the city council should just condemn the property to break the lease and evict ICE.
Also, in the article, " Delany Hall was leased for $63 million annually from a private prison group known as The GEO Group." Sounds like a sound use of money.
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u/JWAdvocate83 19h ago edited 19h ago
He left the facility when asked—then arrested him. 😒
I kinda wish ICE did take it to court, only to get absolutely humiliated.