by Highline | May 4, 2010 |
Along the lines of what I posted last week about the New Hampshire court system teetering on the edge of disaster, the lawyer who runs the court system in New Hampshire is in the Nashua Telegraph today declaring what I believe could potentially be some excellent news:
“Cutting the number of court session days could lead to an unacceptably long delay for lower-profile criminal defendants who could be released because they weren’t given a speedy trial, Broderick said.” He also says that “You could have some lower-end people walking. I don’t say it as a threat, because it’s a very real possibility(.)” What an excellent possibility indeed.
And by the way, these people aren’t “lower end.” They are human beings no better than you or I.
I think by “lower-profile criminal defendants” he potentially means people who haven’t actually hurt anyone else. What a novel idea……. not throwing people into a human cage who haven’t actually hurt someone.
by Highline | May 2, 2010 |
Drug addiction can strike anyone. Should these people be thrown in a cage?
“Despite being employed as an engineer, Eddie was forced to pawn things to help pay for his habit. He even pawned his grandmother’s diamond wedding ring for $250, a ring he was going to give to his daughter when she grew up.”
This is exactly what I argued yesterday in my post about the latest victims of drug prohibition here in New Hampshire. It is just plain true.
Some drug addicts even prostitute their children to pay for their habits: “Occasionally women are involved in supplying their own children to pedophiles, pornographers, or others in the sex industry. The mother’s own addiction is the usual cause.“
Those children would never be pimped out and victimized if there was not an insane “War on Drugs.” Their mothers, being far less likely to start drugs in the first place, would have a place to go to get treatment and help. I’m sorry to say it, but if you support continuing the “War on Drugs,” you are supporting the continued victimization of children and everyone else by these addicts.
Today’s excellent Foster’s Daily Democrat article is located here.
by Highline | May 1, 2010 |
The New York University and the Chicago studies on drug addiction support the notion that drug addiction necessarily leads to predatory crime as a way of life. “For most narcotic addicts, predatory crime (larceny, shoplifting, sneak thievery, burglary, embezzlement, robbery, etc.), is a necessary way of life.”
It doesn’t have to be.
Here are latest victims of New Hampshire’s failure of a drug war:
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by Ian | May 1, 2010 |
Liberty-minded people called “Talkback” on WKBK last week to discuss withholding property tax, government school to market schools, marketizing jails, food regulations, the Sentinel’s paywall, the so-called free market, and coercion. Guy MacMillan from the Keene Sentinel fills in for regular host Cynthia Georgina.
Grab the archive.
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by Highline | Apr 30, 2010 |
Nashua Telegraph story here.
“All 78 courts in 40 locations statewide will be closed in response to a request by Gov. John Lynch to cut judicial expenditures by $3.1 million during 2010 and 2011, according to the Associated Press.”
It gets pretty expensive to prosecute people for silly crap, now doesn’t it?
I say everyone, charged with anything, plead not guilty.
Courts = FAIL
by Highline | Apr 30, 2010 |
Story here.
Oh, but Marijuana users don’t go to jail, right? Especially the sick ones.
This is the same exact thing that the law enforcement community wants to do to sick and disabled people here in New Hampshire. You know, part of “Protecting and Serving.”
All the hard work done to lobby the legislature to have common sense Marijuana policy would have easily passed if it were not for all the “Protecting and Serving” the police chiefs and Attorney General spew to the legislature.
Can’t we just leave people who are sick and disabled the hell alone?
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