Communism at its finest.
(only half joking)
If you take the piss long enough, they’ll lock you up, or send the bailiffs round.
It really depends on how endemic corruption is. If “everybody does it”, a public prosecution is simply a means of cementing a political advantage over an opponent.
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Venal shitbags like that are platform-agnostic. He’d have been Nonklematura in Cold War Russia, just like he’d have joined the Nazis in early 30s Germany. The actual, living breathing reason we can’t have nice things.
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In fairness, the slap on his wrist that he’ll get will really sting.
It honestly amazes me, considering how many lives are ruined in bad faith by people like this in government, that more of these such aren’t killed.
For people who dont live in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas or Kansas; I think they would be surprised how easy it is to get a traffic ticket there.
Farmers Branch is definitely one of ‘those places’ but the worst by far, in my experience, is some little shitstain on the map called Calera, OK. Calera is one of those charming little hamlets with a 40MPH, 4 lane divided interstate running thru it. And if you are not from around there then your speedometer must not work right.
Apparently, besides breeding with your family members and picking ticks off yourself, a favorite activity in Calera is writing speeding tickets.
Where I live now( I wont say ) I have no idea what I have to do to get a speeding ticket. Apparently the police here have better things to do than sit on the side of the road waiting for me to drive by. Hell, I blew past a cop at 70mph in a 45 just yesterday.
Chicago?
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The debtor’s judge owes money? Irony.
Preferably leg irony
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Reminds me of that German judge and senator who liked to call himself Judge Merciless for his zero tolerance policies and radical positions, eventually got busted for cocaine abuse.
I think countries without debtor’s prisons generally rely on some sort of property seizure to satisfy debts. If my experience with civil debt collection is typical, it’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll. Sometimes it’s not worth the trouble, or the stone has no blood, but it always takes a long while.
And if you don’t/won’t use the currency of the land, it moves from being a civil problem to becoming a political problem. If I don’t agree with the laws that dictate how dollars are used, I can’t play that game without incriminating myself.
Nevermind the expense paradox here that the prison stays might well be costing more than they amount of money they owe - but that’s fine if taxpayers can be relied upon to pay and tolerate this use of it. /s
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Doesn’t surprise me, unfortunately.
I just looked for who Judge Merciless was, and I think he’s highly reactionary rather than radical. I don’t think I can say more without invoking Godwin’s Law.
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This article doesn’t specify which judge has been replaced, but I wonder if it was Brockmeyer.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-ferguson-new-judge-20150309-story.html
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