What an odd coincidence. Last night, I convened a People's Court and found 45 guilty of multiple felonies. We have an appropriate cell prepared in Ned's basement. We get to enact a citizens' arrest now. Surely Larry Klayman will back me up on this. Right?
What an odd coincidence. Last night, I convened a People's Court and found 45 guilty of multiple felonies. We have an appropriate cell prepared in Ned's basement. We get to enact a citizens' arrest now. Surely Larry Klayman will back me up on this. Right?
Problem is, violent sovereign-citizen and local-authority extremists are out there and they believe stuff like Klayman's. Remember Ruby Ridge? The maga congressman representing my district sits on Jim Jordan's replica of the Judiciary Committee. Jeff Van Drew's current constituent newsletter touts his commitment to an impeachment investigation of Joe Biden. What happens in Idaho doesn't necessarily stay in Idaho once it leaches into the magaverse.
According to Wikipedia, she's 83 and alive. Also according to Wikipedia, her granddaughter recently came out. I suspect that won't change the hate that she's based her life on.
I guess I just don't understand it. Everytime I've held onto a grudge or hated someone, it hurt me more than them. It actively ruins your life to hold onto hate. Why ruin your life worry about who other people can love? Madness!
I am not sure that there is really anything to understand, in the sense that there is a logical rationale involved. It is an aspect of human nature (identity).
You cannot understand why they care about such things. They cannot understand why you don't.
We have plenty of aphorisms/sayings about these things that people do not pay attention to. An entire philosophy built around it (stoicism)... so there is a recognition of the problem at some level.
If we can get the printer ink cartridge fiasco resolved, minutes of our deliberations and all the jurors names will be published. You'd think Staples could keep this in stock for important judicial proceedings!
Imagine the possibilities as the loons fantasize about an ad hoc People's Court for every perceived grievance and injustice that they seek to overturn. Students holding professors liable and punishable for giving them bad grades in classes when they failed to study and do the required work? Store owners jailed for selling legal products and services that are deemed offensive to someone's sensitivities? So many possibilities ... be sure to tell the mob about the tax hikes they will endure at the cost of building those super-sized jails to house almost every member of the public who ever did someone else wrong, real or perceived, at any time.
Imagine "The Dark Knight Rises", except without the good looking and talented actors. I am pretty sure that is exactly what many of these yahoos have in mind.
тАЬStore owners jailed for selling legal products and services that are deemed offensive to someone's sensitivities?тАЭ
Or store owners being gunned for displaying a sign you find offensive; like the store owner in San Francisco who was gunned down for displaying a pride sign. ItтАЩs not just the fake justice, itтАЩs people taking their perceived justice into their own hands; no fake trial necessary!
Your dystopian future is already here, we just refuse to acknowledge it...:)
George Carlin had a great idea about two decades ago. And I apologize to the good citizens of the below mentioned states now in advance. George said we should fence off Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah with very tall impregnable fences with barbed wire. We gather all the loonies together and place them in theses states. We can divide them up in the individual states however we like. Let them do whatever they want. Once a year, we open the gates at the corners where they come together for a day, maybe a week, just so they can mingle.
He was thinking about convicted felons, I believe. It was funny when he did it.
Near Lake Arrowhead. ItтАЩs a great area. Besides Arrowhead, Big Bear Lake is nearby. Area used to be a mecca for kids summer camps. Yes, SB in Derby City is a native southern Californian who moved to KY as a little boyтАжbut got to spend summers southern CA.
Just wait until The Citizen's Courts starts trying each other for unlawful citizen's arrests and "phony" trials as opposing groups of the Citizen Law Enforcement and Citizen Judiciary communities begin turning on each other.
"You're under arrest for {something not really a crime, but I don't like}!"
"I don't recognize your authority! You're under arrest for arresting me!"
I'm having a great time crafting the tale of the ad hoc judicial system in my neighbor's basement. In real life, it'd be a horror as bad as you describe.
The best part of that story was the quote: Joe was also busted for тАЬendless greed and corruption..." Endless greed is a crime now?! Excuse me, I have a few hundred subpoenas to hand write.
I did it all Maggie except for mistreating Molly Ringwald. That was beyond the pale. I wouldnтАЩt even think of doing drugs these days but IтАЩm glad I had the experiences I had without ever getting arrested!
Unironically???? *breathes a sigh of relief* Lack of opportunity saved me from trouble with Molly Ringwald. Oddly, she wasn't hanging out with undergraduate engineering majors. :) At the time, I thought that '83 Corolla was pretty sweet.
Herb's rec room (oops, I mean the courtroom) was only so big. Not to mention that the veggie plate (oops, Dr Oz called it a crudite platter) was only so big. :)
"Freedom" isn't just about what MAGA can do, but also what others can't do. MAGA "freedom" requires the active suppression or subversion of things they don't like.
What an odd coincidence. Last night, I convened a People's Court and found 45 guilty of multiple felonies. We have an appropriate cell prepared in Ned's basement. We get to enact a citizens' arrest now. Surely Larry Klayman will back me up on this. Right?
Problem is, violent sovereign-citizen and local-authority extremists are out there and they believe stuff like Klayman's. Remember Ruby Ridge? The maga congressman representing my district sits on Jim Jordan's replica of the Judiciary Committee. Jeff Van Drew's current constituent newsletter touts his commitment to an impeachment investigation of Joe Biden. What happens in Idaho doesn't necessarily stay in Idaho once it leaches into the magaverse.
Can we take a minute to talk about the right embracing "The People's Anything"
Should someone tell them they sound like a bund of godless commies?
I'm concerned that before we know it "The People's Republic of Florida" is going start collectivizing it's citrus groves.
Is Anita Bryant available to be the orange grove commissar?
Is Anita Bryant still alive? I am sometimes surprised these days by obituaries of people I thought long dead.
According to Wikipedia, she's 83 and alive. Also according to Wikipedia, her granddaughter recently came out. I suspect that won't change the hate that she's based her life on.
Karma is a bitch.
I guess I just don't understand it. Everytime I've held onto a grudge or hated someone, it hurt me more than them. It actively ruins your life to hold onto hate. Why ruin your life worry about who other people can love? Madness!
I feel you.
I am not sure that there is really anything to understand, in the sense that there is a logical rationale involved. It is an aspect of human nature (identity).
You cannot understand why they care about such things. They cannot understand why you don't.
We have plenty of aphorisms/sayings about these things that people do not pay attention to. An entire philosophy built around it (stoicism)... so there is a recognition of the problem at some level.
Bravo, Mike!
I have a particularly tedious task at work today. The frequent brain breaks are keeping me from running down the hall screaming!
I'm just about through the rough part. Time to knuckle down and crank a report out. Thanks for playing along. :)
I wonder who was on the jury? Could it be Clive Bundy and his тАЬkey-stoneтАЭ militia? Just asking for a friend!...:)
If we can get the printer ink cartridge fiasco resolved, minutes of our deliberations and all the jurors names will be published. You'd think Staples could keep this in stock for important judicial proceedings!
Imagine the possibilities as the loons fantasize about an ad hoc People's Court for every perceived grievance and injustice that they seek to overturn. Students holding professors liable and punishable for giving them bad grades in classes when they failed to study and do the required work? Store owners jailed for selling legal products and services that are deemed offensive to someone's sensitivities? So many possibilities ... be sure to tell the mob about the tax hikes they will endure at the cost of building those super-sized jails to house almost every member of the public who ever did someone else wrong, real or perceived, at any time.
Imagine "The Dark Knight Rises", except without the good looking and talented actors. I am pretty sure that is exactly what many of these yahoos have in mind.
тАЬStore owners jailed for selling legal products and services that are deemed offensive to someone's sensitivities?тАЭ
Or store owners being gunned for displaying a sign you find offensive; like the store owner in San Francisco who was gunned down for displaying a pride sign. ItтАЩs not just the fake justice, itтАЩs people taking their perceived justice into their own hands; no fake trial necessary!
Your dystopian future is already here, we just refuse to acknowledge it...:)
George Carlin had a great idea about two decades ago. And I apologize to the good citizens of the below mentioned states now in advance. George said we should fence off Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah with very tall impregnable fences with barbed wire. We gather all the loonies together and place them in theses states. We can divide them up in the individual states however we like. Let them do whatever they want. Once a year, we open the gates at the corners where they come together for a day, maybe a week, just so they can mingle.
He was thinking about convicted felons, I believe. It was funny when he did it.
Near Lake Arrowhead. ItтАЩs a great area. Besides Arrowhead, Big Bear Lake is nearby. Area used to be a mecca for kids summer camps. Yes, SB in Derby City is a native southern Californian who moved to KY as a little boyтАжbut got to spend summers southern CA.
Just wait until The Citizen's Courts starts trying each other for unlawful citizen's arrests and "phony" trials as opposing groups of the Citizen Law Enforcement and Citizen Judiciary communities begin turning on each other.
"You're under arrest for {something not really a crime, but I don't like}!"
"I don't recognize your authority! You're under arrest for arresting me!"
And so on...
That's exactly where this leads.
I'm having a great time crafting the tale of the ad hoc judicial system in my neighbor's basement. In real life, it'd be a horror as bad as you describe.
Hey, freedom isn't free! :)
According to Team America: World Police, it costs precisely $1.05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVkTmnJkAN8
You left out a sentence:
Dean: Do it or you are fired.
Thank you for your service.
The best part of that story was the quote: Joe was also busted for тАЬendless greed and corruption..." Endless greed is a crime now?! Excuse me, I have a few hundred subpoenas to hand write.
Only a few hundred?
Does everyone who wore a suit in the 80s have to go to jail now?!?
I wore Acid washed jeans and drove an IROC. Do I apply ?
Hey I resemble that remark!....:)
Yes, I went to high school on Long Island in the 80s, where I was assured repeatedly that "greed is good." What a plot twist.
Does trying to look professional in college summer job interviews count? *whistles nervously* :)
Hmmm, at any time did you drive a luxury car, snort cocaine, unironically tell someone "coffee is for closers", or mistreat Molly Ringwald?
I did it all Maggie except for mistreating Molly Ringwald. That was beyond the pale. I wouldnтАЩt even think of doing drugs these days but IтАЩm glad I had the experiences I had without ever getting arrested!
Unironically???? *breathes a sigh of relief* Lack of opportunity saved me from trouble with Molly Ringwald. Oddly, she wasn't hanging out with undergraduate engineering majors. :) At the time, I thought that '83 Corolla was pretty sweet.
Be sure Jared and Ivanka make your subpoena list.
Check my comments above. If you're convening your own people's court, keep a close eye on the ranch dressing. It can get ugly. :)
And none of those words apply to TFG.
Why was I not called to be on the jury? ЁЯдм
Only people relegated to an insane asylum, need apply. So thereтАЩs plenty of potential jurors in Congress that fit that bill....:)
Herb's rec room (oops, I mean the courtroom) was only so big. Not to mention that the veggie plate (oops, Dr Oz called it a crudite platter) was only so big. :)
And, of course, I was on this side of the pond....
It got a little rough with the accusations of double-dipping in the ranch dressing. I don't know how the federal courts manage, juries are difficult!
Isn't that is what the balliff is for, food fights?
If they're not busy taking care of their dogs. Seriously, juries are hard! :)
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To describe Klayman as crackers is an understatement.
How about crumb-y, then?
Ha!
Crackers (the food, not the people) would sue for defamation.
After the great wheat thins vs saltines debate, we decided to go with a veggie tray. :)
Veggies or crudit├йs?
Depends if Dr. Oz is coming. I can always grab extra salsa and asparagus. :)
I thought he was a stalwart protector of liberty. How was I to know?!?!?! (Yes, Im kidding... jeeze :) )
I'd give money to know Klayman's definition of "freedom". My guess is it's got nothing to do with civil rights and individual liberty.
I suspect it means "Klayman can do whatever he wants with no negative consequences."
Yes, but I think "freedom" for these people means ridding themselves of people who don't conform to their way of thinking and speaking.
"Freedom" isn't just about what MAGA can do, but also what others can't do. MAGA "freedom" requires the active suppression or subversion of things they don't like.
That, too. :)