Yes - bail == money here. There is also the odd twist that if you read someone is out on $100,000 cash bail it means they paid 10% of it and if they flee they need to pay the rest.
Thanks. Here you have a right to bail in almost all circumstances, at least for a first offence (although it's generally granted in subsequent cases, too), unless the court finds there's a good reason not to grant it. No cash usually involved.
On one hand, I agree being merciful is the way to go, but on the other hand, after four+ years of this shit, I'd not cry if he wasn't... I can be a little vindictive.
I think fire and the knout are considered cruel and unusual punishments, though, and frowned upon as go-to interrogation methods.
True - also, well, I blame more the political figures who manipulated these people, and people like Limbaugh and Alex Jones, or at Faux - they are the ones who need to get slammed with the full extent of the law.
Yeah, we've been trying to get rid of cash bail for years. It's so barbaric, even the American bar association opposes it, but it's difficult to change, because the bail bondsman industry is huge. I'm hazy on the intricate details of the finances, but from what I understand, the bail bondsman basically loans the money to post bail, then they charge interest on it, or charge a flat rate, which is non-refundable, even if you are innocent. If you don't show, they hunt you down and drag you to court. I think in most places, they are on the hook to pay the court the bail if you don't show and they can't catch you. They have even less regulations and training than cops, so they do all kinds of horrible things to catch people. It's all part of the prison economy that drives mass incarceration in America.
I'm not sure that Nathan Phillips saw the incident quite the way you do, at least not as it had developed by the time the photographs were taken. Seems to me that Nicholas Sandman, the student involved, was acting like no human shield I've ever seen, since he and his friends were all facing the wrong way if that's what they were doing.Pains me to stand up for anyone foolish enough to wear a MAGA hat, but I think the students were misrepresented. There's longer videos showing a 3rd group at the scene being verbally hostile to the Native Americans when the students show up (iirc). From that perspective it looks a lot more like the students decided to show solidarity by standing with the Native Americans as almost a human shield between them and the 3rd group.
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I read that the guys that kid was facing down were black israelites. IDK if you ever met a black israelite, but they are... extreme. Think black panther ideology meets Q anon. They think they are the real israelites, and white jews stole their birthright or something, so they want some kind of holy war against white people. I think they are black seperatists. I do believe that demonstrations should be loud and a bit wild, because if they aren't then what's the point? At the same time, Black Israelite demonstrations go too far sometimes. They leveraged that photo to great effect, but they were probably the agressors in this situation.I'm not sure that Nathan Phillips saw the incident quite the way you do, at least not as it had developed by the time the photographs were taken. Seems to me that Nicholas Sandman, the student involved, was acting like no human shield I've ever seen, since he and his friends were all facing the wrong way if that's what they were doing.
Anyway, he's apparently sacked Lin Wood as his lawyer.
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood fired by teen who faced off with Native American in viral video
A Kentucky teenager whose 2019 face-off with a Native American activist in Washington went viral has fired his lawyer, a man who played a key role in Donald Trump's attempts to overturn his election defeat, according to court notices filed on Monday.
I can't seem to find the same clip I saw before. I did find one that was posted from the BHI group, and it clearly shows that the Philips put himself between the groups, not the other way around as I had thought I remembered it.
Sure, but whatever he may have been doing some minutes before those famous photos were taken, he certainly can't have mistaken Nathan Phillips, the Native American activist, for a Black Israelite, can he?
Why not remand her in custody? If they have evidence that she's abusing her grant of what I can't stop calling bail, by using it to attempt to interfere with their investigation, then that would be a very good reason to pull it.
See: Slap on wrist emboldened insurrectionist.
The thought of making them construct fortifications along the Polish-Lithuanian border like the Streltskys once had to do has a certain appeal, however. Strengthening Polish defenses against Russian aggressors would be quite suitable for them.
Certainly I have no objections to banging up Limbaugh, Alex Jones and a whole basket of deplorable politicians and journalists in the dungeons of the Peter and Paul Fortress, or exiling them to Alaska (preferably making them walk there, if the Canadians will let the prisoners and escort pass through their country).
They could swim there instead...
Clearly not.
