The sweeping bail legislation would change how and if people can be released from jail before their criminal cases are resolved, while they are still legally presumed innocent. The bill would ban the release of those accused of violent crimes unless they had enough cash, as well as restrict charitable groups’ ability to pay to get people out of jail.
ETA: The meanest part of the legislation is the part that restricts charitable organizations from posting bail for people, but does nothing to regulate the bail bond industry. I wonder how that would hold up in court, given that “money is free speech?” IANAL
I can literally jump over the brook which caused this. It is no consolation to those who lost friends and family there - but this could have been much, much worse.
As I have seen elsewhere.
What is going on with that? How are we failing these people? (Aside from the obvious issue of not bringing in the National Guard to support them when an actual insurrection was taking place).
IANAT(herapist), but I would imagine the national discourse, on one side of the spectrum, doesn’t help. If you’ve spent your life believing that Republicans are the law-and-order-back-the-blue party, then have this massive trauma, then find out their support was all bullshit, then see their public trashing of you, the trauma compounds the trauma. Just a WAG, though.
Further in-law drama and insight. We’ve been imploring them to get the vaccine, and have been contacted by some of their friends and family members who have also been pressuring them. They are liars about it [“Oh, we’re working on it,” “I’m trying to decide which one to get, J&J or Moderna,” and “it’s very hard to make an appointment” (they live in the mountains, 30-45 minutes from the nearest anything, but all their “neighbors” have managed to get it).] I mean, even their right-wing, conspiratorial relatives have given in at this point. Not them. Nope. But, this is a family that never went to the doctor ever, for anything. I’m not even sure the M-I-L goes in for “women’s exams.” F-I-L definitely doesn’t go in for anything.
Last night it devolved into a fight, with my wife in tears and telling them “Look, you’ve made your choice. If you get sick, it’s on you, we’re not coming to take care of you. Also, we’re having the various grandchildren at our house for Xmas, and unless you show us vaccine cards, you aren’t welcome” and them replying “We won’t be bullied about this.” Well, yeah. “Nope, you won’t be bullied. You’ll also spend the coming holidays alone.”
Fsckers. Fuck them, fuck today.
But it did get me wondering how many of the holdouts see the various campaigns, the public statements, etc. as some kind of “bullying” (in their minds) and are reacting in a “you can’t tell me what to do!!” way.
This is exactly how the situation has been presented and played by the faux news spectrum. Listening to experts who are actually experts is following someone else’s agenda and being told that you need to take certain steps to stay safe is being bullied. The narrative of “we are the truly oppressed” has been gaining volume for years now.
