Breaking the law: How the state weaponizes an unjust criminal justice system

[furrowtickler]

So who gets past the blame and the bill ?
The rest of Canadians Or the RC church???
Canadians today had absolutely nothing to do with those schools... period .

[blackpowder]

Why even bother with a true SJW anymore.
Never once a solution presented.
Just a cry of injustice and a call to do more. Do more what?
Enough smug educated enlightenment.
Let's get the ball rolling.

[jazz]

i don't know about any one else but my family homesteaded on a piece of land in the hills and rocks and cactus that even the Indians wouldn't stay on full time.

Any they weren't in the original group of settlers so they had to buy the land from the first homesteaders that went broke on it.

We ain't talking bc ocean front here either.

[blackpowder]

Ya, and who's going to be crying for you when your family's off it in time.

[furrowtickler]

Isn’t it ironic lol ...


Actually not funny , most people with any common sense seen this coming

[blackpowder]

Quite literally, the stupidest thing I've heard yet. Mob intelligence.

[furrowtickler]

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-state-is-kneeling-on-the-job/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-state-is-kneeling-on-the-job/

Breaking the law: How the state weaponizes an unjust criminal justice system
Marie Henein
Contributed to The Globe and Mail
Published 4 hours ago
Updated June 13, 2020

Marie Henein is a lawyer and senior partner with Henein Hutchison.

On June 6, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a knee during the Black Lives Matter demonstration on Parliament Hill. It was the correct show of support required of a political leader, acknowledging undeniable facts: a history, a present and – without change – a future of racism.

But if the Prime Minister is going to stop at a bended knee, then that is as ineffectual as sending out a “thoughts and prayers” tweet. To quote Shakespeare, it is sound and fury signifying nothing. A bended-knee photo-op is not enough. Not even close.

The history of racism, in the United States and Canada, manifests in an endless list of ways. I want to talk about the one I’ve known intimately: the criminal justice system. Its history and present is central to our understanding of how criminal justice, from police powers to sentencing, is part of the web that directly oppresses Black and Indigenous lives. Knowing this reveals the hollowness of Mr. Trudeau’s camera-ready genuflection.

Let’s start here. There is a rational reason that Black Lives Matter marches have been accompanied by demands to defund police, enforce police oversight and decrease the epidemic of mass incarceration. It is because the state’s weaponization of the criminal justice system for the purpose of racial marginalization has a long, well-documented history. Using the criminal law is a dependable and effective method to double down on marginalizing the marginalized and sidelining the racialized. Historically, criminalizing others, locking them up, is a weapon deployed to maintain social dominance. Drug laws, three-strikes rules, minimum sentences – much of it has been born from racism masquerading as law and order. That is just a plain, undeniable fact. It is and always has been the case.

Let me give you just one example of how this political three-card monte is played. One of the most notorious was U.S. president Richard Nixon’s declaration of a War on Drugs. While entrenched by president Ronald Reagan, it was in fact Mr. Nixon who first inspired it when, in 1971, he announced at a press conference that drug abuse was “public enemy number one in the United States.” But the declaration of war wasn’t really on drugs at all. John Ehrlichman, counsel and assistant to Mr. Nixon and a Watergate co-conspirator, later revealed the truth: “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the anti-war left and Black people. … We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmny2DTvvqw

[furrowtickler]

So are those guys racist chuck ???

[AlbertaFarmer5]

You always find the smartest things to say.
Reading between the lines, are you suggesting both parties are hostages? To documents and actions from generations ago, and policies still enacted and enforced ( or lack thereof) by inept and corrupt leaders on both sides?

Darnit Farma, I responded to your really good post, and you deleted your post before I got this up, so now I have a completely out of context post missing the quote I was responding to.

[flea beetle]

So are those guys racist chuck ???

Couldn’t take the heat, and tucked tail and ran?

Or it was his turn for two days off and now he will be back tomorrow?