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glad you finally realize where the problem lies. i do not like laws that hand the douchebags more power. Just like people would rather pass laws to dienfranchise thousands of voters to save a hundred that might be illegal. I air on the side of freedom and the Constitution for law abiding CITIZENS. not law abiding POLICE OFFICERS.

where and when? - you have no idea about anything about me. I have asked for nothing more than Z gets arrested, charged and jury decides his fate. Show me where I have asked for anything more. He is arrested and i could honestly care less about his outcome. The bigger problem is the flawed SYG law in Fl. I have also stated that he has/had a clear cut case of self-defense if he just did what the court said and shut the fuck up. Which he has failed to do, and therefore is a douchebag. innocent people do not have a reason to lie, nor do they have a reason to lie to the courts. These people are a joke and with the cash they have flowing in, I cannot believe they cannot afford better counsel to protect them from themselves. You can be innocent and still fuck up, yes, I realize that, but that makes you a douchebag....

if you are a purist and an ideologue. but in the real world - it is not.

no because the country does not actually carer about someone lying about a blowjob - nor should they. Now lying about why you killed someone? That MIGHT be a little different. The difference between the two situations is an order of magnitude. unless of course you are a right winger with a perfect record on all aspects of your life......

I doubt it could ever be a racial crime - it's a 'waanabee cop' crime. Z is a douchebag, like i said, and now his wife is a douchebag too. http://news.yahoo.com/george-zimmermans-wife-arrested-perjury-charge-205648308--abc-news-topstories.html I bet she bonded out with all that money they did not tell the courts they had

Post 83 already gave a real-life example of an example of surely what the law was NOT intended to do. So to say that the local authorities would only be doing what the feds SHOULD be doing is a stretch. I do not believe that federal authorities would be going around arrested german businessmen. The law is an abuse of power, guaranteed to be abused. And your assumption is that local police should have the same power possessed by federal agencies, which is also likely unconstitutional.

rich DZO's don't jump for free. They still have to put fuel, maintenance and mortgage payments into their airplanes, pay electric bills and staff and rent. Get up every day to make sure that it all works for you (and me). free - yeah right.....

Got to see Richard live in Tampa last October, first time I had ever seen him - amazing stuff

no one ever heard of Richard Thompson?

I always thought that abortion could be retroactive in some cases.....

Which is exactly my point as to why the law will be abused.

hey we elected a former Muslim, non-citizen at President right? What's the big deal It's a free country - get used to it. If you don't like him, don't vote for him. Hell Michelle Bachmann got elected and she is far more radical than any Black Panther

And CEO pay dropped about the same amount, http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/12/ceo-pay-20-year-historical-chart.html The difference is if you made $50K and lost 40%, you know make $30K and probably lose your house. When you make $20M, you lose 40% and you still make $12M. Maybe you have to sell the yacht to make ends meet.....

like I said, I never said it was easy I am not an adversary, I am an ally. I support the troops. I do not like war. I fully understand the true cost of war and therefore decided a long time ago that we should not be fighting them. yes we still need a military, but it has become absurd in the time since WWII, fully corrupt and driven mostly by misguided ideals and mostly making money for large corporations. We need to invest HEAVILY in our troops. More on PTSD and care, education, less on bullet-proof vests and artillery shells.

I don't listen to Obama. Florida stand your ground laws had the 'intention' of allowing law-abiding citizens to use deadly force to defend themselves and their families and property, but the law is now being abused by drug violence and idiots to claim self-defense with never-intended results. It is a bad lawand is being abused. Arizona's law is a bad law and is guaranteed to be abused. For every 'nice encounter' you have had with police, there are thousands who have not shared your experience. &00,000 stop and frisks in NYC alone in the past year. http://ccrjustice.org/stopandfrisk You sir, are naive to think that giving someone 'power' will not be abused.

That is simply a quote, not a fact. It does nto make policy. Name a piece fo legislation that made it through the process without some revision, so it actually means nothing. guaranteed that the SC will not strike down the law in its entirety. Guaranteed that the law will not be repealed in its entirety, even if the Republicans won a 99% majority in November. guaranteed. The same corporate interests that are funding Obama, are funding this bill and the Republicans, so it will not go away. It might just get modified. Back to the thread. Stopping people on the streets to ask for ID is unconstitutional. The USA is heading closer and closer to a police state, with the help of far-right (and often Republican) interests supporting that cause This is very very bad for the country and Unconstitutional. period.

FYI, I am not for Obamacare either - it is a halfway fucked up useless policy that does not enough of anything. That does not mean I support private healthcare as it stands today in the USA. The Republican party is on a self-destruct mode, though, I actually wish the democrats would just hand power over to them, vote unanimously 100% in favor of whatever measures the Reb's want. It would only take 8 years for the complete annihilation of the Republican party for the destructive policies that would be implemented and would probably end up in a civil war. Would be an interesting social experiment to watch from the outside. And ridiculous immigration laws that stop innocent people in the streets tromp all pover the civil rights of American Citizens - it is unacceptable. No one on the right seems to notice that Obama has deported more illegals than any other President in history - you ought to be pinning a fucking medal on his chest, given your support for such policies. But of course, it would be the Partisan right to vote exactly opposite of whatever Obama wants or decides, whether or not is a agreeable....

Ah yes, the philistine pig-ignorance I have come to expect. Obamacare will NOT be struck down by the SC. a small portion of it might be. Which does not dismantle the entire bill, even if the republicans will consider a small portion a total victory as they march into an election campaign. Actually at this point the Republicans need ANY sort of a small victory on ANY front to have a chance in November, given the attacks on women's rights, workers rights and the general assault on humanity while attempting to demonstrate a 'concern' for the country. Govt requires me to buy auto insurance. These are not the freedoms I speak of. The freedoms that I speak of in AZ are a move closer to a police state where people in uniforms stop innocent people on the street to ask for their 'papers' This is the country that you live in and you are willing to tolerate such moves only because you are white and feel that security. Even if it violates several parts of the Constitution that once again, you stand so staunchly on your little hill waving your American Flag and pretending to uphold the values that it represents. Good luck with that. When the stormtroopers come to your door, I want to be there to see your jaw drop and wonder what happened. At that time, at least, I will actually have the ability to go back to Canada and enjoy a free country. Assuming your stormtroopers don't stop me on the way out to let me through the 'fence they built for their 'free country'

agree that it is difficult - I never said it wasn't. But the other extremem is that we built killing machines and therefore we must continue to use them as killing machines forever. and that is rubbish. it costs money. Politicians start wars and look at salaries equipment and the cost of bullets. That is about it. If we brought them all home, closed half the military bases around the world, we would have a military budget that could easily afford the re-education and treatment that these people need. Or we can just forget it and hope the problem goes away

we trained you to deploy and fight wars - we can also un-train/re-train you to do something else. Too bad no one budgeted for that....

+1 - Ron is one of the biggest hypocrites I have ever had the displeasure to meet. Jesus Jesus Jesus, but let's kill, hate, destroy and bias at every chance I can.....'cause Jesus tells me I should.....

Bullshit. Liberals, like many others, want freedom in the country. You cannot have freedom if you pass laws that take away freedom. No one wants illegal immigrants, but passing stupid laws that are unenforceable, remove other legal people's freedoms and are constitutionally invalid is not the way to do it. Has nothing to do with 'liberals' Has a lot to do with this 'silly document' called the Constitution. Hence why it is in front of the Supreme Court. Of course most right wingers will simply decide that the SC is too 'liberal' if they decide against their favor.

and the smoking laws do SO MUCH to stop teens from smoking..... legalize it all - spend the drug war budget on education and treatment. We would save billions and billions.....

I did not have a TV until I was 7. And only because my Dad won a 15" B&W TV at a raffle at a local car dealer. Flipper, Disney, Lucy, Ripcord, Ed Sullivan, and whatever we got on the only 2 channels we could get with an antenna

And Santorum is running as a Republican but he is really a right-wing Christian fanatical nut-job And Newt is running as a republican, but he is simply an asshole and Ron Paul is running as a republican, but he is really a libertarian And Mitt is running as a republican but he is really a Mormon fanatic And Herman is running as a republican, but he is really just a pizza delivery guy your point is? Can I have the 5 minutes of my life back that it took to read that crap?