Friday, July 14, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
WTF - Citizens Against Motorcyclists
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agingrebel.com
agingrebel.com
In case you missed it, a new page titled Citizens Against Motorcyclists popped up on Facebook six days ago.
According to its anonymous author, the
page “is a grassroots social organization aimed at outlawing motorcycles
and prosecuting those who engage in ‘biker’ culture. Join our cause and
help us to rid the roadways of these savages!”
As of this morning, the page had 27
followers and 269 comments to posts like “Did you know biker clubs are
responsible for 90% of sex trafficking, drugs and child pornography in
America?”
And, “Like And Share If You Think Police
Officers Should Be Able To Search Motorcyclists Without Probable
Cause!” Of course, police do that already by using imagined traffic
violations, their expert “training and experience,” drug detecting
wonder dogs and the motor vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment.
Wait For It
Creating yet more constitutional
exceptions for motorcyclists is something Citizens Against Motorcyclists
is “really trying to push. Here’s why. Bikers already look very
intimidating, most of them carry weapons and also have
Drugs/paraphernalia on them. If anything, Motorcyclists should be open
to this not only to prove they’re abiding all laws, but to also assure
the police officer’s safety. LIKE & SHARE IF YOU AGREE.”
Enjoy Citizens Against Motorcyclists
while you can. Chris Rock once said something like, “If you want to know
whether somebody is stupid or smart, tell him a joke.”
Like, “Don’t you hate people who use big words just to make themselves look perspicacious?”
Citizens Against Motorcyclists is one of those jokes. It is drily tongue in cheek and a little too subtle in the Age of Trump.
Satire Is Dead
Some commenters seem to get it. One describes the page as “PETA meets bikers.”
But satire is currently on its deathbed
so most of them don’t. “What the actual fuck. This is bull shit. If they
can just search me for being on my Harley then they can just search you
for driving your BMW and for being a dumb fuck,” one concerned biker
sputtered.
And, “Ru a fucking Asshole or what.”
And, “Fuck you and your ignorant stereotyping. You wouldn’t qualify to
be biker material. Our standards are far higher.” And, “Frkn nutz!! Get
rid of the soccer moms that are so fucked up on wine and prescription
drugs!!! Then get rid of the Trucking industry as well!!!” And, “…your
dumb ass should go get a booth at Sturgis and spread the word see how
that goes for you.” And, so on.
The real fun has yet to begin. There
are, after all, actual, grassroots groups with names like Concerned
Citizens Against Loud Motorcycles. So just wait until the bikers rights
crusaders discover this guy, whoever he is.
Monday, July 10, 2017
Lawmakers should think carefully before leashing ‘The Dog’
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Another great article coming out of California:
http://www.ocregister.com/…/lawmakers-should-think-careful…/
By Kerry Jackson | Orange County Register
Crime in California is on the rise and the solution offered by Sacramento is … releasing suspected criminals back into the community without requiring them to post bail?
Assembly Bill 42 would, if passed and signed, authorize the pretrial release of an “arrested person,” and “set a time and place for the appearance of the arrested person before the appropriate court and give notice thereof” without the “arrested person” guaranteeing his or her appearance with a surety bond. Suspects “arrested and booked into jail for a violent felony” will first have to appear “before a judge or a magistrate for a hearing” prior to them being “considered for release.”
The law would also transfer to pretrial-service agencies, and away from judges, the authority to determine how much risk the suspects pose to the community.
AB42, the California Money Bail Reform Act, is being peddled as the needed reform of a system that discriminates against the poor. The Legislative Counsel’s Digest says “this bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to safely reduce the number of people detained pretrial, while addressing racial and economic disparities in the pretrial system, to ensure that people are not held in pretrial detention simply because of their inability to afford money bail.”
It’s not quite a get-out-of-jail-free card, but Lipstick Bail Bonds says it “has set the stage to make California the fugitive capital of the world.”
Dog the Bounty Hunter, also known as Duane Chapman, said California’s system needs to be modernized, but pointed out an unintended consequence of the law. It could “let lawbreakers go home and say they’re poor.”
“It’s not the poor man who runs” anyway, said Chapman, “he has no money to run, it’s just an excuse for someone to say that.”
In addition to increasing the risk of flight and the danger to a community a non-bonded suspect would pose, the “reform” would harm an industry. A 2014 Towson University study that looked at a similar proposal that became law on Jan. 1 in New Jersey found that the “loss in commercial bail usage will be manifested in the loss of commercial bail employees and, eventually, the closing of commercial bonding firms.”
“We’re basically out of business,” Kirk Shaw, whose family operates a bond company in Hackensack, N.J., told the New York Times a month after the new system went into effect.
According to the study, the financial problems will filter from the bail industry into the rest of the economy. For every 10 employees lost in the industry, seven additional jobs would be lost, there would be a $2.1 million loss in economic output, and $600,000 in wages would be forgone.
Taxpayers could also to take a hit. The report said the pretrial service unit would cost taxpayers $215 million a year. Since California’s population is about four and a half times that of New Jersey’s, the cost here could be close to $1 billion a year if you extrapolate accordingly.
The concept of bail has been around for centuries, its roots traced back to medieval England. It was instituted, according to aboutbail.com, “to balance the playing field among the rich, middle, and poor classes when individuals were accused of a crime” — which sounds much like the arguments that reform supporters are making. Previously, “only those who had enough money and property to post a security were lucky enough to secure temporary release pending their trials.”
Is it possible that only 21st century California could botch a system that’s worked well for centuries?
After falling for decades, crime in California is ticking upward. Violent crimes increased 10 percent in 2015 over 2014, according to the state attorney general. Homicides jumped 9.7 percent, robbery and aggravated assault by increased more than 8 percent, and crimes against property climbed 8.1 percent.
In Los Angeles, police say violent crime rose in 2016 for the third straight year. The San Jose Mercury News reported in January that that city had the most homicides it’s had in a quarter of a century last year as violent crime grew 15 percent.
Will AB42 and identical Senate Bill 10 increase these numbers if enacted? Before lawmakers turn California’s bail system upside down, they need to watch New Jersey’s experiment. A little more than one month into the new system there have already been some “questionable” releases, New Jersey radio station WKXW reports. The incidents have increased since then. Belleville, N.J., Mayor Raymond Kimble says the system is “letting too many people out and then they’re committing more crimes.”
It would irresponsible for Sacramento to act until it knows how its actions will impact public safety.
Kerry Jackson is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute.
http://www.ocregister.com/…/lawmakers-should-think-careful…/
By Kerry Jackson | Orange County Register
Crime in California is on the rise and the solution offered by Sacramento is … releasing suspected criminals back into the community without requiring them to post bail?
Assembly Bill 42 would, if passed and signed, authorize the pretrial release of an “arrested person,” and “set a time and place for the appearance of the arrested person before the appropriate court and give notice thereof” without the “arrested person” guaranteeing his or her appearance with a surety bond. Suspects “arrested and booked into jail for a violent felony” will first have to appear “before a judge or a magistrate for a hearing” prior to them being “considered for release.”
The law would also transfer to pretrial-service agencies, and away from judges, the authority to determine how much risk the suspects pose to the community.
AB42, the California Money Bail Reform Act, is being peddled as the needed reform of a system that discriminates against the poor. The Legislative Counsel’s Digest says “this bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to safely reduce the number of people detained pretrial, while addressing racial and economic disparities in the pretrial system, to ensure that people are not held in pretrial detention simply because of their inability to afford money bail.”
It’s not quite a get-out-of-jail-free card, but Lipstick Bail Bonds says it “has set the stage to make California the fugitive capital of the world.”
Dog the Bounty Hunter, also known as Duane Chapman, said California’s system needs to be modernized, but pointed out an unintended consequence of the law. It could “let lawbreakers go home and say they’re poor.”
“It’s not the poor man who runs” anyway, said Chapman, “he has no money to run, it’s just an excuse for someone to say that.”
In addition to increasing the risk of flight and the danger to a community a non-bonded suspect would pose, the “reform” would harm an industry. A 2014 Towson University study that looked at a similar proposal that became law on Jan. 1 in New Jersey found that the “loss in commercial bail usage will be manifested in the loss of commercial bail employees and, eventually, the closing of commercial bonding firms.”
“We’re basically out of business,” Kirk Shaw, whose family operates a bond company in Hackensack, N.J., told the New York Times a month after the new system went into effect.
According to the study, the financial problems will filter from the bail industry into the rest of the economy. For every 10 employees lost in the industry, seven additional jobs would be lost, there would be a $2.1 million loss in economic output, and $600,000 in wages would be forgone.
Taxpayers could also to take a hit. The report said the pretrial service unit would cost taxpayers $215 million a year. Since California’s population is about four and a half times that of New Jersey’s, the cost here could be close to $1 billion a year if you extrapolate accordingly.
The concept of bail has been around for centuries, its roots traced back to medieval England. It was instituted, according to aboutbail.com, “to balance the playing field among the rich, middle, and poor classes when individuals were accused of a crime” — which sounds much like the arguments that reform supporters are making. Previously, “only those who had enough money and property to post a security were lucky enough to secure temporary release pending their trials.”
Is it possible that only 21st century California could botch a system that’s worked well for centuries?
After falling for decades, crime in California is ticking upward. Violent crimes increased 10 percent in 2015 over 2014, according to the state attorney general. Homicides jumped 9.7 percent, robbery and aggravated assault by increased more than 8 percent, and crimes against property climbed 8.1 percent.
In Los Angeles, police say violent crime rose in 2016 for the third straight year. The San Jose Mercury News reported in January that that city had the most homicides it’s had in a quarter of a century last year as violent crime grew 15 percent.
Will AB42 and identical Senate Bill 10 increase these numbers if enacted? Before lawmakers turn California’s bail system upside down, they need to watch New Jersey’s experiment. A little more than one month into the new system there have already been some “questionable” releases, New Jersey radio station WKXW reports. The incidents have increased since then. Belleville, N.J., Mayor Raymond Kimble says the system is “letting too many people out and then they’re committing more crimes.”
It would irresponsible for Sacramento to act until it knows how its actions will impact public safety.
Kerry Jackson is a fellow with the Center for California Reform at the Pacific Research Institute.
AUSTRALIA - ID scanners launched across Queensland licensed venues
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Will your ID stop you from going about your business?...
They say its for people on banning orders for violence or drug trafficking who else will be added to this list......your guess is as good as mine......
They say its for people on banning orders for violence or drug trafficking who else will be added to this list......your guess is as good as mine......
ID scanners launched across Queensland licensed venues
Tens of thousands of Queenslanders have had a safe night out at licensed venues across the State after ID scanners were officially launched last night.
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath said 89,600 IDs were scanned in Safe Night Precincts.
Seven people on banning orders for violence or drug trafficking were flagged trying to enter clubs.
“It is early days but these are very satisfying figures to hear after just one night of ID scanners officially operating in 180 venues in 15 Safe Night Precincts across Queensland.
“If this system only prevented one family from dealing with the aftermath of a tragedy this morning, it is already worth it.”
“I’d like to thank police officers and 42 compliance officers from the Office of Liquor Gaming Regulation for their monitoring work on the ground last night.
“And I’d like to thank venues and patrons for embracing these new laws which are designed to keep everyone safe on a fun night out.”
Brisbane Region Acting Assistant Commissioner Brent Carter said State Liquor Coordinators across Queensland had performed compliance operations in Safe Night Precincts with their co-regulators at OLGR.
“Districts have used local intelligence-led policing to assist with the start of inter-linked ID scanners being used this weekend.
“Our priority has been to ensure the safety of the general community as they enjoy a night out around the state,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Carter said.
It is now law for patrons to have their ID scanned at premises in Safe Night Precincts for entry after 10pm.
“ID scanners are part of the Palaszczuk Government’s strategy to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and are designed to ban patrons who have a history of violence, or drug trafficking convictions, from our venues to ensure people can have a fun and safe night out,” Mrs D’Ath said.
“Remember, if you’re going out on the town make sure you are carrying ID.”
Tens of thousands of Queenslanders have had a safe night out at licensed venues across the State after ID scanners were officially launched last night.
Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D’Ath said 89,600 IDs were scanned in Safe Night Precincts.
Seven people on banning orders for violence or drug trafficking were flagged trying to enter clubs.
“It is early days but these are very satisfying figures to hear after just one night of ID scanners officially operating in 180 venues in 15 Safe Night Precincts across Queensland.
“If this system only prevented one family from dealing with the aftermath of a tragedy this morning, it is already worth it.”
“I’d like to thank police officers and 42 compliance officers from the Office of Liquor Gaming Regulation for their monitoring work on the ground last night.
“And I’d like to thank venues and patrons for embracing these new laws which are designed to keep everyone safe on a fun night out.”
Brisbane Region Acting Assistant Commissioner Brent Carter said State Liquor Coordinators across Queensland had performed compliance operations in Safe Night Precincts with their co-regulators at OLGR.
“Districts have used local intelligence-led policing to assist with the start of inter-linked ID scanners being used this weekend.
“Our priority has been to ensure the safety of the general community as they enjoy a night out around the state,” Acting Assistant Commissioner Carter said.
It is now law for patrons to have their ID scanned at premises in Safe Night Precincts for entry after 10pm.
“ID scanners are part of the Palaszczuk Government’s strategy to tackle alcohol-fuelled violence and are designed to ban patrons who have a history of violence, or drug trafficking convictions, from our venues to ensure people can have a fun and safe night out,” Mrs D’Ath said.
“Remember, if you’re going out on the town make sure you are carrying ID.”
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