Weed legalization thread

[Speaker to Animals]

No more road piracy.

I'd remove all financial incentives from tickets if I could. Make people do community service or something like that. Nothing that directly benefits cops or politicians in any way.

There really doesn't even need to be a fine associated with speeding tickets, for instance. You already get slammed with an insurance premium hike, and after so many tickets they suspend your license. I don't really see the point in the fine, personally.

[brewster]

What usually is going on with issuing tickets/citations with fines is that it is a revenue stream for local government and/or the police. Most people won't/can't fight a ticket (even on principal) and would just pay the fine and be done with it.

What's pathetic around here is the Parking Authority is so corrupt they barely break even, they've even run in the red! Few years back there was a full time supervisor there who also held a full time job as a teacher in the county HS. I'm a Democrat, but the D machine here runs like the mafia, once you're a "made man" they take care of you. A councilman once resigned in disgrace after drunkenly pissing on people off a balcony at a Grateful Dead cover band show, I shit you not. A couple of years later he's hired at the County HS as a vice principal!

[Speaker to Animals]

What if I told you democrats are like that everywhere and throughout American history?

[brewster]

What if I told you democrats are like that everywhere and throughout American history?

I'd tell you its not that they're democrats, it's that they've been in power too long. I grew up in Nassau County Long Island, which had a long running GOP machine only recently challenged. You couldn't get a county job or even a locker at the county beach if you weren't a registered Republican. They were corrupt as hell, highest taxes in the nation. This was the machine that gave us Senator "pothole" Al D'Amato. The only difference between D'Amato and Menendez is their party, both are corrupt machine bosses.

[Speaker to Animals]

And Stalin wasn't a real communist.

[brewster]

And Stalin wasn't a real communist.

See, I knew you'd finally understand!

[Speaker to Animals]

They are just a common cancer that stems from democracy.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/tex ... etter%3D12

As old as democracy itself.

[Penner]

And Stalin wasn't a real communist.

What he is saying is that they have too much power for too long and their party affiliation doesn't matter because it's human nature.

[brewster]

And Stalin wasn't a real communist.

What he is saying is that they have too much power for too long and their party affiliation doesn't matter because it's human nature.

StA would prefer to believe that when conservative southern Democrats switched to the GOP in 68 they suddenly sprouted wings and halos instead of supporting the same old shit they always had just under a different party.

[Hastur]

And getting a speeding ticket for going 3 mph over the speed limit when you know you didn't even do that because the car was on fucking cruise control. That too.

Yeah, that sucks ass. But there are other places that will do that too throughout America, not just Kansas.

Kansas did nothing wrong!

:goteam: :drunk:

So true.