She already gave you an answer. It's your overblown rhetoric, but you already knew that.
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She already gave you an answer. It's your overblown rhetoric, but you already knew that.
HighlandHomie
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I'm not allowed to share my opinion? It's everyone else's prerogative to respond/engage with me when I post it. I don't ask anyone to respond. I share links to stories/videos in the General Discussion forum and offer my personal commentary. I thought that's what message boards were for.
I'd accept HighlandHomie is an *******, idiot, immature, etc but not attention whore. Attention whore makes no sense whatsoever.
Have you been stopped from sharing your opinion? People responding to you with their own opinions of your opinions is also what a message board is for.
As for your refusal to accept the label of "attention whore", well to bad. You have been handing out unjust labels left and right. So suck it up and deal.
HighlandHomie
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*too
But you make a fair point - I'm an attention whore, you're a racist
Glad two see you are not a hypocrite. Just rude and ignorant.
HighlandHomie
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HighlandHomie
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It's a youtube video of Michael Jackson saying "that's ignorant".
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I get searched everytime stopped by police because my accent. I have been arrested 7 times in 2 years time but never charged with anything. Last May I have baggy of sugar for coffee. They say it crack cocaine and I have stay in jail all weekend because lab to analyze is closed until Tuesday. Normally Monday but memorial weekend.
3 days jail for carry sugar. I tell cops I am saving up in advance for when I go crazy and knock one of them out, take the cruiser and drive it into Provo Lake.
Hotdog
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This is a pretty sad story. Reading it makes me angry at how the court systems can behave sometimes. How crazy is it that they can keep delaying your trial for 3+ years. You are supposed to have the right to a speedy trial. But they can jerk you around still by their BS technicalities such as your 6 month wait period for a speedy trial isn't actually 6 months real time, but rather how much time is added up based off how much time the prosecutor asks for when asking for an extension. Prosecutor asks for another week but the judge can't reschedule for months and so that 1 week is what counts towards the 6 months. Not the actual time waited. Wow, how screwed up is that?
I hope he wins his case and wins a lot of money, especially so that a message is sent to the court system. A lot of those prosecuting attorneys who filed for the delays should be fired and forced to sit in jail for a long time too.
However, having said that, we aren't really sure whether he was really innocent. He only got off the hook because his accuser bailed from the country. I personally don't think he is guilty though. Just a guess. I like that he stuck to his guns and didn't take the plea. Props to him on that, and that's mostly why I think he was innocent. We don't know much else about the case from this story though. Just his word pretty much.
We should also note that he was in there in the first place because he violated his probation from a crime he admits he committed. So he isn't entirely an innocent person. He lost his right to not be in jail while waiting for a trial because of what he did prior. It sucks that happened, but don't committ the earlier crimes and you don't have to wait it out in jail on something you didn't do.
I think that our courts and jail systems do need to do a better job and handling court cases and handling inmates. We don't know for sure if all the people arrested or in jail are innocent or not. It's a huge travesty when an innocent man is put away. We as a society should be very aware of this. Black or white.
I hope he wins his case and wins a lot of money, especially so that a message is sent to the court system. A lot of those prosecuting attorneys who filed for the delays should be fired and forced to sit in jail for a long time too.
However, having said that, we aren't really sure whether he was really innocent. He only got off the hook because his accuser bailed from the country. I personally don't think he is guilty though. Just a guess. I like that he stuck to his guns and didn't take the plea. Props to him on that, and that's mostly why I think he was innocent. We don't know much else about the case from this story though. Just his word pretty much.
We should also note that he was in there in the first place because he violated his probation from a crime he admits he committed. So he isn't entirely an innocent person. He lost his right to not be in jail while waiting for a trial because of what he did prior. It sucks that happened, but don't committ the earlier crimes and you don't have to wait it out in jail on something you didn't do.
I think that our courts and jail systems do need to do a better job and handling court cases and handling inmates. We don't know for sure if all the people arrested or in jail are innocent or not. It's a huge travesty when an innocent man is put away. We as a society should be very aware of this. Black or white.
I find this particular story credible. And it is well-written. Sure, anybody can diss anyone if they won't even listen. Some of the responses I saw in my brief scan of this thread show the kind of attitudes that actually help create systemic injustice. Would a "liberal" writer take the time, if writing for a liberal rag, to work up a sympathetic story about a redneck white boy in the Alabama woods being locked up on obviously unsubstantial charges and kept in prison for two years? Probably not. But probably the judges and cops wouldn't bother goodtimes Charlie the redneck either. Therefore,we are all in some . . . degree. . . also part of the problem.
It is outrageous that court-appointed attorneys milk the system of pretty substantial fees while making sure their clients don't go away somehow. I think attorneys like that should rot in Hell. And I think one who does that needs to be fired. . . .well, thrown in the prison, and then throw the key into the Hudson. Maybe also part of our problems. . . .
We have neat little legal provisions for some kinds of civil cases, like fraud, where the if you're shown to be culpable you have to pay treble damages. How about, if any state employeed officer of a court, or officer of the law enforcement, trumps up charges and puts someone in jail with no evidence, or false evidendence, they must serve the same jail time, in the same jail, as their clients were sentence to?
That would certainly give officers of the courts and the police some pause to check their facts and make the hard decision. . . .if they give a crap about anything.
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I like Ain't. When I first came here it looked to me like he was about five different handles, four of them banned somehow for some reason. It was an interesting series of handles, leading up to Ain't nuthin. I was intrigued by the existence of an innerwebz persona with the intellect and humility to choose a handle like Ain't nuthin, as in I ain't nuthin. And yet swarms of critics seemed to think he was everything.
I think he was just laughing at it all, and the more he laughed, the madder everyone got.
I figured I might as well just laugh at him and enjoy his fun more than he was enjoying it. He figured me out, and treated me like a friend. Some folks thought we wuz the same perp.
Great times.
I miss Ain't.
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Hey, hey highlandhomie bro. . . .yah gotta know when to leave well enough alone. If you wanna influence anyone, particularly "klansmen", yah gotta just stop short of givin' them free advertising and making them look like sypathetic good dudes.
stick to the story. broken record the facts, leave it at that.
my blood brother the anti-statist anti-"state socialist" got me to join a commie union by sticking to the facts, even though we never did agree on the necessity for private property. The fact that most unions are sellout bootlicking management schills was enough to move me that far looking for a union that would represent me. Too bad, I found out even that commie union was compromised and owned by management just as well.
same thing with every commie party in every commie country. Never was anything but sheer puppetry, a political circus show for the ignorant* masses, just like our mainsewer media.
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I liked Aint too. A lot. I was always one of his biggest defenders. And he's welcome back as far as I'm concerned. I'll just ignore his posts if they bother me. Pretty much like I do with many of the comments that Highland Homie posts.
I did read the article. Most of Highland Homie's comments just don't encourage me to engage in discussion with him. Seems like that bothers some of you. OK. And Highland Homie is certainly free to continue posting in whatever manner he chooses (within board rules or course...) Doesn't matter to me what he does.
I give a heck of a lot of credit to folks like Hack who are able to respond to the article in a thoughtful manner.
peakbagger1971
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I'm so white I'm almost clear and I've been wrongly accused an convicted.
Details?
HighlandHomie
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Our justice system is broken, it's sad.