and THEN i pulled up “here to help”.

know a good way to clean spewed coffee off computer components?

Who owns the tree? A tree “‘near” her home? Was she telling the kids not to climb their own tree? At the very least it doesn’t sound like her tree or that they were trespassing.

Is she just a “‘tree hugger” who goes around defending trees from humans?

If she went next door and told black families what to do with their own tree ( or a tree that wasn’t hers at least) and how to parent while calling their children monkeys- I could see it reasonably being seen as racial.

Sounds like the dad was right. Mind your business, Lady. The government needs to mind its own business, and so should nosy neighbors.

Imposing punishment before determination of guilt is a slippery slope. But, of course, that’s just stating the obviouls since we’re pretty far down that slope already. Law enforcement and judicial officers routinely enrich their budgets through property siezures without regard to a finding of guilt (or even filing a charge).

Some of you are too young to remember this, but there once was a time when government had a reputation that was actually better than the people they prosecute (or persecute — take your pick).

Twenty-five years ago, my high school curriculum included reading things like Fahrenheit 451, To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Flies, etc., in an effort to make us question authoritah. Now I have a healthy distrust of legal policy (and I’m a lawyer), which I am trying to impart to my kids (not the lawyer part, just the distrust of legal policy). When I hear about asset forfeiture and placing the onus on the forfeiter to prove his assets were obtained legally — let me just say we are freakin’ doomed. Then when I hear about posting photos of suspected shoplifters based on police discretion and no one legally challenging it, I am totally convinced that our Bill of Rights is dead. Pretty soon we’ll be seeing innocent people randomly picked for public whippings — just to keep the rest of us in line.

As far as the cash story in Nevada goes, if the authorities cannot prove that the money is dirty, it should be assumed to be clean. If you then want to pursue tax evasion charges, that’s a different story, but just because someone is found with a large sum of money that they can’t explain where it came from is not illegal.

He’s lucky that no one took a picture of a child without his parents, or he’d be posting those from prison.

BTW, how many drug dealers pay taxes on their sales and incomes? I doubt that there are any except those who launder the money through another activity.

chsw

Even though Avondale’s Web site states “all persons are entitled to the presumption of innocence,” the disclaimer does little to dissuade people from assuming the suspects listed are guilty, Hamby said.

“If they (police) thought the guy was innocent . . . his picture wouldn’t be up there,” he said.

I hope that if the police thought the guy was innocent, he wouldn’t be arrested.

How do we survive as a nation when we build the tools of our destruction from the inside each and every day? Cynical view, I know, but I just can’t hold out hope for us if there aren’t enough rational minds to hold us together as glue . . . I wish, no pray, there were more of you out there! Especially atheists. ;)

PDs have been posting suspected Johns and Pedos online for years. Why not shoplifters? Soon: Suspected jaywalkers.

Interesting that people mainly took photos of other people. Says someting of the human conditon. Would be a good study for an aspiring psychologist.