[misc.legal,alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,misc.headlines,talk.politics.misc]
Subject: Re: Bye, bye, 6th
Summary: It's the same on both coasts and the middle.
Keywords: public defenders, 6th Amendment, Bill of Rights
Reply-To: tucker@pixel.hac.com (George Tucker)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA

> Well, one such crime is "interfering with an officer" in Marlboro NJ,
> especially if the way you've chosen to interfere with the officers is
> to photograph them acting improperly.  The judge's definition of
> "able to afford a lawyer" is "do you have a job?".
> 
> So I had to pay $1500 to my lawyer, because the potential penalty was
> six months in jail as well as $1000 fine, and the town had no intention
> of reimbursing me when they dropped the charges nine months later.

I am curious whether they actually followed through with the charges
they threatened to file?  When they responded to a crank call from a
woman by barging into my kitchen, shoving a gun in my face, throwing
me on the floor, cuffing my hands and feet, and THEN beating me up, I
paid $1000 to a lawyer to defend against "resisting arrest" (and they
said they were pretty sure they could have got away with killing me),
but they actually tried only "trespass" (in my own house).  I think
they didn't really want a trial.  Without a trial there seemed no way
to make any complaint against them.

The same crazy woman got my new tenant arrested with $5000 bail; by
accepting only cash and taking time to refund it, they share the loot
with the bailbondspeople.  By the way, all govt offices seemed to have
posters telling women how brutal all men are.  Every night on TV their
propaganda machine shows them protecting women and children from evil
drugs and violent men, so they can deliver the votes whenever
necessary.

They have to power to kill any effective dissenter.  They left a
rather obvious sign of that in my yard when I was preparing a
complaint, so I dropped it.  Besides, all media need licenses, etc.,
even if reporters are willing to take the risk.  Actually they don't
kill many people; it is trivial to ruin opponents financially,
discredit them, and crush any possibility of recovery.

I suspect all nations, cultures, civilizations, empires, etc. in
decline tend toward apathy and some type of feudal system or police
state.  But if the Brits survive, maybe there is hope for us too.

   "We are the law."
       --L.A. pig at my house.
   "You will get my badge number imprinted on the side of your head."
       --ditto
   "All power grows from the barrel of a gun."
       --Not mentioned by civilian defenselessness advocates.
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