It also forces you to like cats (it depends on being inside cats for part of its lifecycle and in smaller mammals tries to get its host eaten by one).

Reason #231 not to like cats.

tarran, you have to admit there’s a difference between a wife hitting her husband during a panic attack and a man hitting a woman so hard she falls to the ground.

There is a great deal of difference, aqnd if the victim wants to press charges, I won’t object to an arrest being made.

But Charlotte wants that execrable federal law enforced where everyone – my ex wife, the thug who lived two houses down who had tried to strangle his gf all get treated the same, regardless of what the victim wants.

Do you have any idea how destructive an arrest is? Do you know how expensive it is to defend oneself against charges through a magistrate hearing?

And I haven’t even got into false accusations. My lawyer has represented men who were falsely accused by their wives – arrested by officers who clearly disbelieved what they were being told but lacked discretion not to arrest – who lost their jobs, lost custody of their children during the pre-trial phase, who had their savings wiped out – whose children then grew up in poverty because their dad could only find jobs that paid half as much – and those were the guys who didn’t plea out.

But hey, again, like the neocons attacking moslems, the progressives get to feel good knowing the state is hurting wife-beaters and fuck the collateral damage!

Spirytus Rektyfikowany translates to Rectified Spirits.

Regarding NOPD. Yeah, that sounds about right. Sounds eerily similar to DC Metro Cops. In a few situations like this, they’ve blamed the victim and did their damnedest not to arrest the perpetrator. (Three people told me their stories. One of a car break-in caught in the act. Another was just a stupid drunken fight. The third was a belligerent homeless dude off his meds that was harassing passers by and a ‘good samaritan’ trying to calm him down.) Well, DC cops weren’t frantic, violent idiots, just idiots.

Beyond that, the whole situation seems to have been handled really immaturely and amateurishly.

Well, it does have santorum all over the inside.

spreadingsantorum.com

I know of some people who had had a sandbag wall outside their house which was failing just as a bus full of women prisoners arrived to provide assistance. Without the immediate and effective assistance of those prisoners, the home in question would have certainly been severely flooded. As it was, the wall (with additional reinforcements added later) was able to hold back several feet of water for weeks. Some people who are in prison want to be productive members of society. Volunteering for outside work may not offer for much tangible reward, but may still be better than sitting uselessly inside the prison.

Perhaps this might not be so true if the government only locked up those people who really deserved to be locked up, but since it locks up a lot of people who would otherwise be productive, it shouldn’t be surprising that there exist many such people in prison.

Again, I’ll reiterate. Sometimes arrest is appropriate. Sometimes it is not. A federal law that mandates automatic arrest makes the cases where an arrest is inappropriate exacerbates a bad situation.

It certainly had a negative impact on my life; one day, my then wife suffered a massive emotional breakdown after she started to open up about her childhood abuse. That afternoon, she had a panic attack and struck me. Luckily it hapenned in the van, and nobody saw it, and I was only buffeted. So nobody called the cops. Had they been called, it being in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, they would have arrested her – the sight of police would have panicked her further.

In that case, arresting her for domestic violence would have probably driven her to suicide and my kids would be visiting a grave to see their mother. Certainly the threat of mandatory reporting made her unwilling to trust her therapist, the risk of seeing her arrested made me more reticent on the question of getting her help.

Without the threat of law enforcement involvement, I think my ex would have accepted treatment, instead of fleeing into a life of divorce, evictions and the occasional larceny.

So fuck off. The purpose of law enforcement should be primarily to keep the peace and make victims whole – not to satisfy your desire to see people you don’t like punished.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

Cruise ship photos are magnificent. A lot of errors had to be made for that to happen. Big ships tipping over – not fun.

“After admitting that the wrong home was entered by force, the Sheriff’s Office ordered the doorway to be repaired immediately using inmate labor.”

Inmate labor, huh? I’m sure they’re really motivated to do a good job. Of course, if they ‘see’ some ‘drugs’ inside the home while they’re there, they can use that in a jailhouse snitch attempt to get their sentence reduced.

That guy can expect another rude visit from the Police soon…