....any unlawful assemblies? Clue "peacefully".
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Demonstrators, protestors to pay for police time.
This sets a dangerous precedent. There's also the issue of police declaring such an unlawful assembly.
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I'm not a dinosaur but the moves/laws/edicts do make me say there is an erosion of rights we enjoyed.
I guess this will be interesting. Some group assembles, the police show up and bill the group.
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Too many protestors are concerned with "rights" but unwilling to also take on "responsibilities", often preferring someone else doing that part for them.
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Everyone talks about the brown shirts and Nazis, but it began as a reaction to anarchists and the communist international, Spartacus group, and others who were trying to take over Germany. The Nazis promised to clean it up and bring back law and order. What might be the Devil or the Deep Blue Sea choice then. The one extreme leads to the other as a corrective measure. The sooner the corrective action happens, the less the extremes.
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Well ... it can't happen here ...
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Commit a crime...go to prison...get a bill for you custody/maintenance?
What happens if/when you don't/can't pay?
That's it...we're kicking you out of prison for non-payment?
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Down here for awhile and all the road workers are in "prison orange" in Bay County. Sign is put on side of road when a gang is picking up garbage and whacking the weeds.
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road gang?...wouldn't being on the road gang be a reward for good behavior?
Out in public, away from all those prisoners....seeing civilians, hearing cars, emptying(drinking) half-full beer cans found on the side of the road?
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some states do require prisoners to pay for their incarceration. it follows them when they get out until it is paid.
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It puts a burden on them after leaving which will encourage them to turn again to crime to pay the bill, same as drug addicts do to pay for their drugs. If depriving someone of their freedoms, we should be willing to foot the bill for it. That's one thing that adds some control to considering how many we will keep locked up and who should remain locked up vs who is safe to release.
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I can see some refusing to leave...
You're free to leave...
NO! NO!...I don't want to go...
GET OUT!!!!
OK>>>but I'll be back...I'm not going to pay what I owe....
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I was taught they were counterproductive.
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to take someone's freedom away and then expect him to pay for it. As for arresting them, then making them pay, that's the same as a "fine", and won't put a huge money burden on them.
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I was taught they were counterproductive.
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peaceful protests and burning down the town and destroying property, including police cars, blocking access to roads and businesses....it's about damn time they are forced to pay up. If the protests are lawful, it means they actually got PERMITS to do so....you don't storm a mall or an airport and cause chaos forcing extra police to show up and be peacekeepers because it takes them away from doing their jobs elsewhere. How do you see this as a 'dangerous precedent'? If you need a permit to hold a parade, you need one for a protest as well....spontaneity is usually out of anger and anger leads to destruction of OTHER people's property nearly every time and it's gone on for far too long. Even Rahm Emanuel admitted the other night publicly that the 'Ferguson effect' has gone on for too long and needs to end....too bad so many on the left keep encouraging it rather than condemning it.
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And Trump should pay out of his own pocket for
Trump to sign executive order to investigate widespread voter fraud,
All 50 states and the District of Columbia finalized their election results with no reports of the fraud that U.S. President Donald Trump alleges.
It's not like his "birther" claims where he SAID he had investigations carried out..;. and found evidence...He didn't have anyone investigating that AND HE didn't pay anyone for anything...
In this case, HE is having the American taxpayers pay for an investigation into HIS fantasy....
Make the person making the allegation pay......
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hoping nobody will find out how much fraud there really IS going on........there has been enough proof already over the past few elections (local, State, and Federal types) that a REAL investigation IS warranted finally. AND a new bill needs to be passed into law that takes the Southern States' election laws out of the hands of the Federal Government's jurisdiction. It's long overdue.
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because someone is registered as a 'eligible voter" in more than ONE place they WILL/HAVE voted in more than ONE place....
HE has family members registered in more than ONE place...GUILTY of voter fraud?
In HIS eyes they are....
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"HE has family members registered in more than ONE place...GUILTY of voter fraud?"
From what I remember of the election interviews, two of his kids weren't allowed to vote for him in New York because they WEREN'T registered there.
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I would say a good portion of those who move quite a bit are registered in more than one city. not too many voters will go to the courthouse and deregister themselves when they move to a different city/county/state. for all I know I could be registered in more than on location.
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I haven't registered in almost 30 years, in California, but I believe I'm still registered back there. Actual voter participation has been falling off for at least that long, so the governments began simplifying the process, and giving more slack on not voting. (Not requiring reregistration as quickly.)
Now it's swinging the other way, for different reasons. 
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If you miss too many presidential elections, you're erased from the registry.
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One really doesn't need to actually vote for a president. I'm not sure they need to vote for anything at all. I imagine it's possible to bypass all the screens and just hit the submit button. I tend to be more interested in local issues anyway. As for people, it's becoming more and more difficult to be well informed about them. You can forget the TV ads and phone calls. I did jury service under one of our judges years ago and was very impressed by her in the courtroom. I'd re-elect her any day.
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"As for people, it's becoming more and more difficult to be well informed about them."
But I'm told* that most of your fellow voters can't handle more than the sound bites.
* But not by the internet, so that may not be true.
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