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Shocking scary stuff!
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...e-texas-234740
President Donald Trump invited the sheriff of a small Texas County to “destroy” the career of a state senator who sought to ban a controversial law enforcement practice by naming the lawmaker during a White House meeting.
At a listening session with county sheriffs from around the country, Trump invited the sheriffs seated in the White House’s Roosevelt Room to make a statement while reporters were present. Rockwall County, Texas, Sheriff Harold Eavenson spoke up first to discuss asset forfeiture, a practice by which law enforcement can seize the cash and property of individuals suspected of committing a crime without a guilty verdict.
Proponents of the practice argue that allows law enforcement to effectively combat terrorism and the drug trade, while opponents, including some conservatives, argue that it allows police to seize assets without due process. Trump’s predecessor, former President Barack Obama, sought to rein in an asset sharing program by which local law enforcement were given a share of whatever assets they seized.
“On asset forfeiture, we’ve got a state senator in Texas that was talking about introducing legislation to require conviction before we could receive that forfeiture money,” Eavenson said.
“Can you believe that?” Trump interjected.
“And I told him that the cartel would build a monument to him in Mexico if he could get that legislation passed,” the Texas sheriff continued.
“Who is the state senator? Do you want to give his name? We’ll destroy his career,” Trump replied, presumably suggesting that the lawmaker would suffer for holding a position contrary to the president’s.
The president’s remark elicited laughter from those gathered in the Roosevelt Room, although the president did not join in. Eavenson did not offer the Texas state senator’s name, and the public information officer for the Rockwall County sheriff's office declined to name the lawmaker in question.
Texas state Sen. Juan "Chuy" Hinojosa, a Democrat who introduced civil asset forfeiture legislation last November, told the Texas Tribune on Tuesday that he did not believe Eavenson was referring to him with his remark at the White House because he had never met the sheriff and had never spoken with him. The chief of staff for state Sen, Konni Burton, a Republican who introduced civil asset forfeiture legislation in December and whose district is relatively close to Eavenson's Rockwall County, did not return POLITICO's request for a comment.
Shocking scary stuff!
3rd time this is posted.
law enforcement, DAs, prosecutors have perverted incentives to lock people up. Outright theft, aka A/F, is a big one.
he's got half the forum posters on ignore so he probably thinks he's the first to post it
Yoni the supposed libertarian now doesn't give a about asset forfeiture..
And boutox, it being buried in one of your spam threads does not cons ute a post.
You're stupid if you think it's not
& I invented This
Me
I just said it was. I'm as scared as you. It's scary and shocking.
Neither shocking nor scary. There's a thread about asset forfeiture going on here for a long time, with good discussion.
The only 'revelation' here is the disconnect between the sheriff and the actual do ented abuse by PDs of that system.
Now, it's entirely possible that 'conviction' is stretching it too far, but at least 'indictment' should be a line to cross before actual forfeiture. Currently, you don't even need to be charged with an offense to get civil forfeiture going, and that's just wrong.
Wouldn't expect any less from an autistic chicken like that, tbh.
It's all those scripts you're running.
Nice psychobabble. I put people on ignore that spam. It's basically DMC, TSA, and a couple m>s accounts.
Tbh, you seem like the kind of chump that just ignores people who don't want to argue with your autistic ass.
All of you will argue if you think you can win. Else for some of you it is as you are doing now where you either make up professions or psychobabble for me. You really like to repeat yourself like an idiot.
It's funny as watching you guys strut and circle jerk when you win a point of fact on me like you have accomplished something though.
Loquaciousness: That would be garrulousness, verboseness, effusiveness. How about "chattiness"?
A predilection by the intelligentsia to engage in the manifestation of prolix exposition through a buzzword disposition form of communication notwithstanding the availability of more comprehensible, punctiliously applicable, diminutive alternatives. Also known as "gross verbosity". Related to this is the use of inkhorn terms, loanwords from a foreign origin that are pretentious to an average speaker.
In brief: "smart" characters using long words when short ones would be better, especially when they are also motor mouths. Characters afflicted with this trait often seem to go out of their way to over-complicate their speech, probably because writers think that this is the only way to show that someone is more intelligent than the average writer. This could also be the trait of a particularly anal-retentive character who always has to be right, the trait extending so far that the character always has to use exactly the right word — never using "blue" when "azure" or "indigo" or even "royal blue" would be more accurate, for example.
Lucky we don't live in Nazi Germany, Fuzz - or you would be on the chopping block
How is it that giving police a free hand to take your money and your car -- and whatever else they care to take -- possibly without ever pressing charges, on bare su ion of wrongdoing, is a good idea?
Lucky we don't live in Nazi Germany, Fuzz - or you would be on the chopping block
So you make up stories about your enemies so they can be done in by you fictional fascist utopia. Our resident sociopathic nitwit. How droll.
#BlueLivesMagaritaMachinesMatter
You're right it's not shocking. It should be scary, but I guess we're all desensitized.
Trash threatening to destroy a Repug STATE politician for proposing a bill should scare everyone, but of course, Trash fellators enjoy blissfully blind ignorance.
Excellent debate
classic
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