Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread Medic
I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. I absolutely loved these two games. On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Actually they were commodore 64 games I forgot. Bard's Tale came out for the Apple as well. They

Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Vivec
The thing is, although some Americans claim that the current Republican candidates are on the fringe and don't represent America...Santorum could win. Romney could win. Bush won. Twice. And everyone was saying he was an idiot, and wondering what the Republicans were thinking putting him up for

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread GMoney
I continue to wait patiently for Nintendo to release certain classic games on their Wii Virtual Console.Baseball Stars...Rush'n AttackSuper Tecmo Bowl.Kung Fu..but my patience is growing thin. On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: A game

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread GMoney
So vote democrat, or it's the end of the world! (As we know it) ((And I feel fine)) On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is, although some Americans claim that the current Republican candidates are on the fringe and don't represent

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Vivec
There have been alarming laws signed under a Democratic president as well. Obama isn't a Republican, and that law allowing the indefinite arrest of US Citizens was passed by him. However, the Democratic party certainly is not making an all out attack on women's rights, and doesn't push a

RE: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
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RE: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Damn elitist... *grin* -Original Message- From: Vivec [mailto:gel21...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 8:36 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism There have been alarming laws signed under a Democratic president as well. Obama isn't a Republican, and

Re: The cost of American Privilege

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: That's the top privilege that matches the author's point ;-) lol What? I can't hear you over the noise att the poor people are making as they are pulling me to work on my chariot made of bacon. -Cameron ...

Speaking of Bacon...

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
There is an annual fundraiser for a local theatre company across from my building called 'BaconFest, so of course, guess who showed up? http://blogs.ajc.com/the-buzz/2012/04/02/weekend-sightings-kevin-bacon-at-bacon-fest-justin-timberlake-at-fado/ I now have significantly fewer degrees of

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: I think what is needed is an educated electorate. 'Educated electorate' is an oxymoron. -- Scott Stroz --- You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can wonder what the f*k happened. - Cpt.

Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On a 5-4 vote, court says that it is just peachy to strip search anyone before putting them in a jail cell even if there is no cause to think that they have any contraband and no matter how trivial the offense was.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
On a 5-4 vote, court says that it is just peachy to strip search anyone before putting them in a jail cell even if there is no cause to think that they have any contraband and no matter how trivial the offense was. Being that my primary work deals with the corrections industry and I have a

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Can you look at the specifics of this case, and please explain to me how this fits in with the idea of the United States of America that we were taught we lived in? And that you agree that this was reasonable, and should be allowed? I don't see it. The arrest should not have happened. The

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.com wrote: And that you agree that this was reasonable, and should be allowed? I don't see it. The arrest should not have happened. True The strip search should not have happened. I think I agree with searches on entry

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Strip search on entering jail (as in local precinct/town jail) I can accept. Visual cavity search for all people entering jail I have an issue with. That ain't right. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Jerry Milo

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
I think the biggest issue was that he was arrested in the first place. After that, he was treated like any other prisoner. He spent 6 days in jail when he should not have. That I have issue with. The fact that he was treated like any other prisoner when he got there I have no issues with.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:51 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.com wrote: Strip search on entering jail (as in local precinct/town jail) I can accept. Visual cavity search for all people entering jail I have an issue with. That ain't right. To me, the real issue here is that in this day

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
...or detained On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.comwrote: To me, the real issue here is that in this day and age of technology and access to quick information, there is absolutely no excuse for someone to be detailed because records were out of date.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: To me, the real issue here is that in this day and age of technology and access to quick information, there is absolutely no excuse for someone to be detailed because records were out of date. THAT's the real

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
The arrest should not have happened. Agreed, though from the information presented the arresting officer did his job properly. The information in the system was incorrect which led the officer to take an action that was justified given the information he had available to him at the time. If

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
Can't start treating some prisoners differently upon entering 'the system'. This will be recognized and exploited. Indeed, which is why they have these blanket policies in the first place. They used to use common sense best judgement for these kinds of things until the inmates started to sue

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.org wrote: The strip search should not have happened. Being jailed should not have happened. Those are really part of the same step, not generally separate tasks. Being strip searched is part of the process of being booked into

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
Reasonable suspicion and Probable Cause are used all the time in the legal system. They are one of the fundamental notions in the legal system. There is no reason what so ever that there cannot be legally well defined and defensible criteria to determine when strip searches can and should be

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Reasonable suspicion and Probable Cause are used all the time in the legal system. They are one of the fundamental notions in the legal system. IMHO - being admitted to a jail is more than enough reasonable suspicion

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Vivec
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Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO - being admitted to a jail is more than enough reasonable suspicion and probable cause for a search. Period. This guy should never have been admitted to jail, but that's not an issue for the jail personel to

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Sam
I'd rather be the one giving the red eye than the one staring at it. . On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: IMHO - being admitted to a jail is more than enough reasonable

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Now, you really think it is reasonable and worthwhile to strip search every single one of those 100 protestors? What is gained? Why is it reasonable? Do we really need to sacrifice the dignity and humanness of all

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
It seems you may have an idea of the location the searches took place that might not be accurate (and this explanation may not even matter - but I am going to try anyway). These strip searches were not done in a local police department after the man was brought to the police station. They were

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Now, you really think it is reasonable and worthwhile to strip search every single one of those 100 protestors? What is gained? Why is it

Re: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
The issue is that a lot of doctors prescribe proton pump inhibitors to offset the gastro effects of metformin, and by doing so, also offset the beneficial effects as well as causing other problems with blood sugar. Yes, metformin works, although the newer class of drugs for insulin resistance,

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:34 AM, Vivec gel21...@gmail.com wrote: The thing is, although some Americans claim that the current Republican candidates are on the fringe and don't represent America...Santorum could win. Romney could win. Bush won. Twice. Santorum cannot win. He could, however,

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Will 100% of jails adopt this as standard operating procedure? I don't know. I do know, however, that the Supreme Court has just said that it is perfectly acceptable for them to do so. That's the disturbing part. The

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
Scott, the ruling makes no distinction between different types of jails. Further more, look at the actual person involved in the case. He had an outstanding (though incorrect) warrant for a failure to pay a fine. He had not been brought to trial and sentenced for the failure to pay that fine yet.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
I have mixed feelings on this one. I can certainly understand the need to make sure no one is bringing contraband into a jail, to provide for the safety of both the jailers and the other inmates. It would be truly tragic if the guy who was picked up on a bad warrant had been shanked by another

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Will 100% of jails adopt this as standard operating procedure? I don't know. I do know, however, that the Supreme Court has just said that it

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
What is the likelihood that someone picked up at a routine traffic stop with a warrant for failing to pay a fine will be carrying a shiv that won't be picked up by metal detectors and a pat down and then attack someone with it in jail? We've abandoned the notion of reason in the name of fear.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: You are misunderstanding my words. The legal offense on the dude's part was (supposedly) not paying a fine. Hence the warrant. The court ruled that even something as mild as not paying a fine (which is illegal) still

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's fair to say not paying a fine should not land you in jail.  IMO there are ***LOTS*** of things that will land you in jail that should not.  But that's not what this ruling is about. At. All. I agree.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: What is the likelihood that someone picked up at a routine traffic stop with a warrant for failing to pay a fine will be carrying a shiv that won't be picked up by metal detectors and a pat down and then attack someone

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
Judah, are you saying that nobody should be strip searched when they go to jail? Because, as fervently as I would like to avoid this happening to me, I think I disagree. Jail is a dangerous place and body orifices classic smuggling tactics. I don't think a metal detector is reliable here (anyone

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Scott, the ruling makes no distinction between different types of jails. Further more, look at the actual person involved in the case. He had an outstanding (though incorrect) warrant for a failure to pay a fine. He

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: What is the likelihood that someone picked up at a routine traffic stop with a warrant for failing to pay a fine will be carrying a shiv that

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Jail would be even safer for the inmates and the guards if we kept every person naked in solitary confinement. If safety and treating people equally are the only criteria that matters, why not support that move?

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: I think it's fair to say not paying a fine should not land you in jail.  IMO there are ***LOTS*** of things that will land you in jail that

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Jail would be even safer for the inmates and the guards if we kept every person naked in solitary confinement. If safety and treating people

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: You're welcome, I knew you'd say that :) Because, even though you use it, you recognize the rhetoric. So, please explain for the class what makes your hypothetical not extreme versus mine? Because it's not a

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Scott Stroz boyz...@gmail.com wrote: However Once you're in jail, all bets are off. And that's where I disagree. You still have rights after you are arrested. That is when they are most important, in fact. There is a difference between 'being arrested'

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
That's why they have pat downs and metal detectors. Neither of which will find that baggie of drugs shoved into your bodily cavities. Smuggling drugs into the jails is a HUGE problem that the jails constantly have to contend with. If there is reason to believe that someone might be secreting

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
My earlier point was that in NJ (as far as I know) there are no 'local' jails with a 'general population' - they are just not big enough. Even in Newark, the police stations do not have a 'cell block' - hence no 'general population'. Typically those who will have an extended stay are processed to

Thread hijack!!! (was: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small)

2012-04-02 Thread GMoney
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Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
I assume this would fall under the category of equal treatment. If you strip search everyone who is placed into a cell, then no one can claim they were profiled or treated differently. It's not like they are being water boarded. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:57 PM, Judah McAuley

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: Jail would be even safer for the inmates and the guards if we kept every person naked in solitary confinement. If safety and treating people equally are the only criteria that matters, why not support that move?

Re: Thread hijack!!! (was: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small)

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
That is a really cool email address.helps that you work for a cool sounding place like DarkTech. LOL, thanks. That's just a personal e-mail address that stems back to a BBS scripting group called Dark Technologies that my friend and I ran back in the mid 90's. The domain was picked

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Cameron Childress camer...@gmail.com wrote: Because it's not a hypothetical? Because people are stabbed with smuggled weapons in jails all the time? Because it actually happens, and isn't just an imaginary boogyman? It is a hypothetical. You are saying that

Re: Thread hijack!!! (was: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small)

2012-04-02 Thread GMoney
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.org wrote: That is a really cool email address.helps that you work for a cool sounding place like DarkTech. LOL, thanks. That's just a personal e-mail address that stems back to a BBS scripting group called Dark

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
Your hypothetical argument would hold water if the strip searches did not find any contraband. I have 2 cousins who are corrections officers for a state prison and the list of things they have told me are found during the 'strip search' is quite long (and I will readily admit this may be

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Cameron Childress
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Judah McAuley ju...@wiredotter.com wrote: It is a hypothetical. You are saying that routine strip searching is justified because it is possible that such procedures could prevent a hypothetical attack that you outline. It's a justification of an incursion

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
It is a hypothetical. I think that's what you're missing. It's not hypothetical. Weapons and drugs are smuggled into county jails every day and these things actually do happen on a fairly regular basis. That's like stating that cars shouldn't be required to have emergency flashers because

Re: Thread hijack!!! (was: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small)

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
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further evidence of the decline of civilization

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
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Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
I'll let the lead author of the dissent, Justice Breyer, in this case take out your argument: The New York Federal District Court, to which I have referred, conducted a study of 23,000 persons admitted to the Orange County correctional facility between 1999 and 2003.These 23,000 persons

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
ok, but you're arguing for keeping people in individual cells, which is fine for a few hours maybe, but impractical for the week this man was incarcerated, not to mention that it would itself draw complaints of inhumane treatment. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Judah McAuley

Re: further evidence of the decline of civilization

2012-04-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
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Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
I'm not sure what you're saying, Dana. Judah On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: ok, but you're arguing for keeping people in individual cells, which is fine for a few hours maybe, but impractical for the week this man was incarcerated, not to mention that it

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
I'm saying that if I understand you, your proposed alternate procedure would be to keep someone like this out of the general population, in a cell by himself. And that that's great, and would in fact be a good idea if there were clear-cut criteria for doing so, except for one thing. As a rule,

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
er, where the man was held stupid auto-complete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:25 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: I'm saying that if I understand you, your proposed alternate procedure would be to keep someone like this out of the general population, in a cell by himself. And that that's

Re: Thread hijack!!! (was: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small)

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
I can think of several thousand ways to monetize that domain name. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.org wrote: LOL, thanks.  That's just a personal e-mail address that stems back to a BBS scripting group called Dark Technologies that my friend and I ran back

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2012-04-02 Thread Dana
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RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Welcome to the fascist police state... -Original Message- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:jmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 12:41 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small Can you look at the specifics

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
I disagree...if you are in for a minor traffic violation, failure to pay a fine, or even child support (and that's a whole nother rant on that...family court makes courts in totalitarian dictatorships look fair and just) and they put you in the general population while you are awaiting the

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
I'll let the lead author of the dissent, Justice Breyer, in this case take out your argument: If you take the 1 in 23,000 figure and use it as an average over the claimed 13 million people who pass through intake every year, that works out to about 565 instances of contraband found each year,

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
naw. Just because you were arrested for something stupid doesn't mean you aren't a risk. Serial murderers come to the attention of law enforcement when they get pulled over for speeding and turn out to not have insurance. Besides, once you are in the general population, it's in your own interest

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Not totally correct...if you are pulled over by the sheriff's department or state police, there is a possibility you can go to county because that is also where the courts are at. When my wife went to jail for child support non-payment (when she was unemployed), she went to county. It depends

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Maybe they can make use of body scanners instead...if they are useful in airports, why not jails... -Original Message- From: Maureen [mailto:mamamaur...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 2:40 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense,

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
No, that is stating an extreme example to point out ridiculous and illogical this is. -Original Message- From: Cameron Childress [mailto:camer...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 3:21 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
And a meteor might hit you in the head too... -Original Message- From: Justin Scott [mailto:leviat...@darktech.org] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 3:32 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small That's why they have pat

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
No, I wasn't proposing an alternate procedure. I was pointing out the slippery slope based on precedent. First, Supreme Court says in 1978 that you can strip search inmates after visits from outsiders because they could be smuggling in drugs or weapons. But they placed careful limits on when

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Judah McAuley
On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Justin Scott leviat...@darktech.org wrote: I'll let the lead author of the dissent, Justice Breyer, in this case take out your argument: If you take the 1 in 23,000 figure and use it as an average over the claimed 13 million people who pass through intake

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Dana
I'm not familiar with the 1978 decision, so maybe that's why I don't see the slippery slope. I'm willing to believe in it -- why not, it's everywhere else. I am just not sure this is the best example of it, because once the system has you in custody it is responsible both for your safety and for

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
Maybe they can make use of body scanners instead...if they are useful in airports, why not jails... Some are. Collier County, Florida, (Naples) for example began using a type of body scanner about a year ago (the first in Florida). Pasco County (Tampa Bay area) is using one now as well.

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread PT
It seems they are basing the decision on a few earlier decisions: ...the Ninth Circuit ruled in United States. v. Aukai that airport screening searches, like the one at issue here, are constitutionally reasonable administrative searches because they are conducted as part of a general

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread LRS Scout
Ok, so here is my take on this. 1. A holding cell is not a jail is not a prison, and each should have rules catered to it's specific environment. Authorizing strip searches for failure to follow a leash law, or speeding, is excissive. 2. the guy shouldn't have been arrested, the fine was

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
Not in NJ...which is where this occurred. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Not totally correct...if you are pulled over by the sheriff's department or state police, there is a possibility you can go to county because that is also where the

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
3.  Our corrections system is broken.  The fact that some of you so readily accept contractors on prison staffs is unusual to me.  Outsourcing government control is a horrible idea in my view. Just to clarify, when I first mentioned contractors I wasn't referring to contracted jail staff, I

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
In NJ..you will NEVER go directly to 'county'...ever. Each city/municipality has 'holding cells' in their police stations/precincts where people are brought when they are arrested. Yes, it possible that after 'processing' you would be transferred to county - but, in NJ, you would never go

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Scott Stroz
Also, in NJ, Sheriff's Officers are not patrol officers. They are mostly used to serve warrants, operate 911 services, guard the county courthouse and/or man the county prison. I know this is different than elsewhere (including where I live now) but this incident occurred in NJ, so I think its

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Justin Scott
I know this is different than elsewhere (including where I live now) but this incident occurred in NJ, so I think its important to get the details correct. Different from elsewhere is right... they don't even let you pump your own gas. -Justin

Re: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Barnes
But it's a FOOD problem. Not pharmaeutical. Right. That's why I said in regards to pharmaceuticals. It was an indicator that the message was moving in a new direction. I'm sure that the FDA is compromised in regards to food as well, but the big money is in big pharma. J - Ninety percent of

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Barnes
I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. Yep. No auto-mapping in these two. And of course, you could stack your characters if you performed the disc swap maneuver. If you knew how to read a hex file, you could even fiddle with the attributes with

Re: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread LRS Scout
The federal government is compromised in general. We are no longer a nation by for and of the people. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: But it's a FOOD problem. Not pharmaeutical. Right. That's why I said in regards to pharmaceuticals. It was an

Re: Old School PC RPG Alert

2012-04-02 Thread LRS Scout
Yeah, fun times. You play thew SSI DD games, Pools of Radiance and Azure Bond I think? On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:02 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: I remember being a kid and drawing out my own maps on graph paper for the dungeons. Yep. No auto-mapping in these two. And of

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread Jerry Barnes
Early Warning Signs of Fascism Oh. This is in regards to Republicans. That makes sense. The early signs for President Obama have been around since he was elected. Anyway, what do you define as fascism. It means different things to different people. Here's a definition from Sheldon

Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Larry C. Lyons
We still have a while to go before we get that far. More like Imperial Germany around 1900 rather than Italy under Mussolini. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: Welcome to the fascist police state... -Original Message- From: Jerry

Re: Early Warning Signs of Fascism

2012-04-02 Thread LRS Scout
So it pretty well fits our current economic system. I don't blame either party, rather I blame both. They both want to limit liberty and freedom, personal and economic, albeit for different reasons. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Jerry Barnes critic...@gmail.com wrote: Early Warning Signs

Re: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
There is a lot of lobbying done by agribusiness. Monsanto alone spent over six million in lobbying last year alone. Deere, Archer Daniels and numerous others spent over a million. The lobbying total for agribusiness is only about 50% of what Big Phama spent, but it's still enough to buy plenty

Re: FDA Decides Against Banning BPA In Food Beverage Containers

2012-04-02 Thread Maureen
We never really were. The truth is that is only a line in a speech. It's a nice, catchy phrase, but it has no standing in law, and has certainly never been the way the government has been run. On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 7:08 PM, LRS Scout lrssc...@gmail.com wrote: The federal government is

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Very well summed up...*clapping* -Original Message- From: LRS Scout [mailto:lrssc...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 6:57 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small Ok, so here is my take on this. 1. A

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
Obviously...the point being is that you can end up in a general population without being convicted of something... -Original Message- From: Scott Stroz [mailto:boyz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2012 7:49 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine

RE: Supreme Court: Strip searches just fine for any offense, no matter how small

2012-04-02 Thread Eric Roberts
They patrol here as well...we have a lot of unincorporated areas. My parents live in Unincorporated DuPage County, even though their mailing address is in Glen Ellyn, IL. If the 911 was called, DuPage County Sheriffs would respond, not Glen Ellyn PD and if you are arrested there you would go

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