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Cindy McCain is speaking tonite at the Republican Convention. Her husband John is the GOP presidential nominee. John is anadvocate for federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients.
Cindy is an ex addict who allegedly stole prescription drugs from a charity she worked at. Fortunately for Cindy she had an excellent defense to federal prosecution; her husband is John McCain.
Unfortunately thousands of other addicts who are not John McCain’s wife are arrested and incarcerated every year.
I just got back from Mexico. It was a wonderful week in beautiful Quintana Roo. I spent two days wandering Playa Del Carmen, a small port city near Cozumel. Commerce is a contact sport is most Mexican markets, Playa is no different. Most shopkeepers sit in front of their store inviting you in with various pitches. For some reason I felt obligated to acknowledge each offer to visit a certain store.
Inevitably, visitors to the market are offered contraband for sale. This wasn’t my first trip to a market in Mexico and I wasn’t surprised at the advertisement. This behavior is not limited to Mexico. I experienced similar salesman working in New Orleans on Bourbon Street.
If you had to decide what laws in a society were important and which were foolish political fabrications one must only look at which laws are enforced against tourists. Shopkeepers were not offering murder or arson for sale. Laws that mattered were still enforced. Tourist dollars are a powerful force, capable of repealing malum prohibitum laws.
Gustav Update- It seems the Hurricane has passed by. We had some spotty yet intense showers. However, the brunt of the storm is still well east of Quintana Roo.
Drug War Terror in Mexico
11 decapitated bodies were discovered in Meridia. It seems to be the work of the Zetas, one of the largest drug cartels in Mexico.
Tomorrow I’m going to Mexico for a week of vacation. I should arrive just in time to catch Hurricane Gustav. I still haven’t decided whether to bring the laptop. Expect light blogging, if any, for the next 7 days. Hopefully there won’t be an evacuation.
La agregación de estos casos produce que alguien en general aconseje sobre la detención y búsqueda.
Primero, la policia le intentara y trampeara a menudo en la concesion de permisso para buscar su coche. Usted NUNCA debe de dejar la policia buscar su coche.
Por que? La policia puedo ser torcido, sus amigos pueden ser consumidores de medicinas{drogas}, y el oficial ha decidido ya que usted es un criminal.
I represent clients for whom English is not their first language. In my experience most of these defendants do not realize that in America, you are under no obligation to cooperate with the police.
These clients are shocked to learn that they could have refused field sobriety testing or refused to let the police search. Therefore, with the the help of my translation program any my wonderful assistant Reyna, I am going to republish my earlier post, Can I Search Your Car, in Spanish.
It’s important that all defendants understand that in America, you have the right to remain silent and not produce evidence against yourself, even if you don’t speak English. I know many readers get this sent out via email and may not appreciate old material in a new language. Let me apologize in advance.
I’m jumping late on the blawger iphone picture bandwagon. Here is a picture I took on August 20th on my iphone. It shows the front lawn of the Kaufman Courthouse at 2:30pm.
Why such a banal photo?
Well, the sprinklers were on at 2:30pm, during a rain storm, during the wettest August week on record. This photo is worth at least 1,000 words on government.
The Dallas Jail continues to vie for the title of the worst run jail in Texas. Recently, a jury awarded $900,000 to a man who was denied medical care while in custody. Grits has a great breakdown of the verdict.
To make matters worse, Dallas uses this dangerous jail to incarcerate those with outstanding traffic fines. The Dallas city council has chosen to arrest their way to fiscal responsibility. The annual expenditures for kickbacks and corruption must contribute to the need for revenue. To fill the coffers Dallas launched the ill conceived “Operation Pay or Stay” program. The result is that one of the most dangerous jails in Texas, is now being used a debtors prison.
Tarrant County has already had a traffic ticket arrest turn into a death sentence. It is only a matter of time before Dallas experiences a similar tragedy.
I’m going to Mexico next week. I’m debating whether to bring my laptop. I’d like the option to stay connected while on vacation. However, bringing a laptop to the airport gives the government the unilateral right to seize it without cause. The odds aren’t very high that TSA, Customs, or DHS would take my laptop. Still, this is my only laptop, it contains my privileged attorney work product, and I don’t want some flunkie bureaucrat molesting my computer.
I’ve blogged before about the warrantless suspicionless laptop seizure program. Department Of Homeland Security- Protecting Freedom By Repealing The 4th Amendment .
Why does DHS need your computer? Just ask the Department of Homeland Security blog, the “Leadership Journal”. In this post, Jayson Ahern, the Deputy Commissioner of Border and Customs, explains why Americans should want the federal government to seize computers without cause.
I recently received the DPS racial profiling data for Collin, Dallas, and Ellis County- Click here for the google spreadsheet. This covers stops, tickets, and searches by DPS troopers only; not local police or sheriff deputies.
Do you want the racial profiling stats for your county? The process is simple.
1. Email pio@txdps.state.tx.us
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