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That still the law in some Muslim countries but that's Islam for ya.
I'm still all for prosecuting the prosecutor though.
Jan
Very cogent.
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Time for a movie!
Ragnar might even use this logic::: if She can't
have it, You can't have it. . burn down the looters'
storage building and do a crowd-fund to help her. -- j
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I have no idea what the lock-up requirements are for a narcotic or controlled substance when using some medical marijuana card or something to obtain it, but seems more like one of those strong-box / locked-up things, not a nylon backpack with 4 teenagers in the house.
Jan
I tried doing some research, but the media is bombarding the Internet with "they stole my vibrator'.. and Smith Creek appears to be too small to have its own newspaper of any kind. The Sheriff's Department obviously deals with a lot of meth, drugs and heroine... it's 50% of their police blotter.
But here's what you need to look at:
1.) She takes care of 5 elderly people that is no-doubt a handful, if it was daisies and chocolates all day, the family would do it instead of the going rate of $5000 to $10,000 a month (which I know from experience). Knocking them out with your medical marijuana is easier than taking care of them, but probably not what the families want. In California, if you can fog a mirror, you can get a medical marijuana card. I'm not impressed that she has one, or that she 'supposedly' is distributing to old folks that have one.
2.) With 6 ounces - far more than you would use for MS, or to load up grandma... Look on the map! St. Clair County is across the road, literally, from New York. Are the marijuana laws the same in New York?
I'm thinking 1 of 2 things... either she was making her job easier by helping Grandma sleep all day (either willingly or by baking it into the brownies)... or she's walking across the border periodically with a bag full of medical marijuana to sell on the other side. Or trading it for her own more expensive drugs she needs (bought in Canada), or whatever.
Either way, there are some details that cause an elected-prosecutor to take a complaint, go after a mother of 4 with MS and the obviously political fallout of that, and take on the case.
She iterated she was 'not bound over for trial'... which means insufficient evidence for trial, not a lack of probable cause, or the lack of a criminal complaint and warrant for search.
However, the search laws are crazy and need to be stopped entirely anyway until they are sorted out... the intent was to sell the Ferrari to pay for the cost of going after drug smugglers, not ripping off the ipads and vibrators from a chick in Upper Peninsula Michigan.
We have also had problems in the past with professional caregivers trying to get info out of my inlaws on their assets... who controls their accounts, one didn't like helping my father in law to the toilet all day so she stopped giving him water to the point that he didn't crap for 2 weeks and was rushed in an ambulance for dehydration.. Another one seemed to cause my mother-in-law's Vicodin to mysteriously reduce by half a bottle every time she came on shift... The in-home care agencies tend to be a scam, they charge a butt-load, but the people they hire to actually do the care doesn't reflect what they are charging, nor is it reasonable enough to not be causing problems (like earning a fair income, etc.).
Maybe I'm inherently suspicious of her, but I still think there is more to this story.
If they are not, then they are innocent under the law and you should not be taking their stuff. It doesn't matter if you think she might have been selling drugs, there is no conviction.
I'm only saying that I don't think the SWAT busted into her house in the middle of the night because it was the only one painted red on the street or whatever.
If you read my other posts, I don't agree with asset seizure in principle (because it will be abused).
Unfortunately the media has drowned out the original news stories (whatever they may contain) with the sheriff taking her vibrator away from her.
This needs to be added to the Bill of Rights. And the fact that it is needed says something (bad) about our police.
I'm not calling her a liar, I'm just feeling like certain details are being omitted intentionally or something. Why did they decide to hit her house? that doesn't happen without a criminal complaint... I'm thinking she was loading up grandma to stop her whining so she just sleeps all day and the family reported elder abuse. Having 4 teenagers, ipads, iphones, 2 in front of her on the table during her testimony, just doesn't really fit the profile of my experience with caregivers. For taking care of 5 geriatric adults, it's an 18 hour a day job.. no doubt. Don't get all riled up here folks.. I'm curious as to what started it.
For that matter... could have been the 4 teenagers raiding mom's "locked backpack stash" and selling it at school as well...
Something is missing in the story... (like motive, complaint, pre-trial hearing details, etc.)
In this particular case I'm sure glad it wasn't me whose stuff they took and refused to return or compensate for. I'd probably be locked up for my methods of demanding my stuff back. That prosecutor that threatened the civil suit after it was found no crime took place needs to be investigated, but we'll never get the rest of this story either. It'll go on too long or never get resolved and everyone else will just forget about it. Besides the media doesn’t want to publish good “news”, and the people don’t seem to want to hear it either, it’s too boring.
This is the same lesson we haven't learned in teaching and learning history, much of it is just incomplete and/or totally false information. That's why things continue to go astray, we just haven't learned enough from history that we can actually put to use, mainly because it's false, we ignore it, we twist it, or we just don't believe it. Need I say the expanding differences between "D" and "R", and "L" and "C". Because of this, man is most likely destined to much more dissention, many more rebellions, more of everything, as populations continue to increase. Riots, poverty, discrimination, rejection, even war, are inevitable if we can’t get the complete facts and reveal the whole truth in history. Everyone seems to have an agenda and will do what they need to do to follow it. That’s just my two cents worth, it don't mean nothin`.
If she's like my family, she doesn't have much value in the stuff in our house. But having it all taken unexpectedly by fire other peril would be devastating. Even if she had committed the crime, they are not seizing real assets. It probably cost more to store them for a year then they could get selling them. it's not about assets. They're just creating a royal hassle.
=)
insane practice of looting people for sport which our
"law enforcement" agencies perform. . immoral. -- j
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