@briankaralus The Constitution protects the Right to a PUBLIC trial but not a private one. There is no authority on the part of judges to deny video recording in a courtroom by the people involved, on either side.
The public should know. Not because I say so. Because this was their courthouse. Their Constitution. Their justice system.
The media asked to televise the trial. I said yes. The State said no. Read that again.
A case built around a recording. A woman prosecuted because of what was captured on video. Yet when the public asked to watch the trial itself, the State fought to keep the cameras out.
Why?
What exactly was the public not supposed to see?
I argued—on the record—for transparency. Not for publicity. Transparency. I argued that the people of Rochester, the citizens of Olmsted County, the people of Minnesota, and every American should be allowed to watch the process. To see the witnesses. To hear the arguments. To watch the rulings. To decide for themselves whether justice was done.
The answer? DENIED! Yep.
Think about the contradiction. A camera in a park becomes the centerpiece of a criminal prosecution.
A camera in a courtroom becomes unacceptable. One camera is welcomed. The other is feared.
One camera used for a $340,000 shakedown and the other feared.
One used to convict a woman for protected speech. The other feared.
Justice is not a private club. It does not belong to judges. It does not belong to prosecutors. It belongs to the people.
Public confidence is not built by asking citizens to trust the system. It is built by letting them watch it. Sunlight is uncomfortable. So is accountability.
If a courtroom cannot withstand the scrutiny of the citizens it serves, then we have a much larger conversation to have than the outcome of a single case.
The people were told to trust the process. I asked that they be allowed to see it. Those are not the same thing.
It is time to wake the fuck up.
The people who spent the last 20 years reminding everyone how hard they partied through the 70's and 80's are now claiming the only coke they ever heard of is cola and it was a Christmas luxury
@TruthFairy131 During Purim, Jews eat a cookie "Haman's ears" which represent the ears of Biblical figure Haman. Historically, people believed these cookies were baked with non-Jew blood. Jewish scholar Ariel Toaff, who wrote about Jewish ritual sacrifice in Bloody Passovers, confirmed this
@Hockey_Rocky14@BigBadBsMemes That certainly was a missed call that favored the Czechs, as well as a few others.. You are too childish, though, to admit that the majority of missed calls favored Canada. So, perhaps take your own advice.
@VenerableDraken@Emp4thchan You don't scream at ticks bc that's schizo, ticks can't understand. Humans can, so you make them anxious, to repel them. Don't universalize diverse situations.
As for killing something with empathy - that's a schizo-level misunderstanding of empathy.
@VenerableDraken@Emp4thchan I usually don't even kill mosquitoes, unless I have to, I just swat them away or off me. I understand they are just doing what they have to, but I also realize I have to do what I have to.
You don't kill something with empathy...
What's Slavic have anything to do with this?
@AFpost Has anyone figured out what the = sign is signaling? I doubt this recurring "typo" in so many of the e-mails is an accident, especially considering the = key is nowhere near some of the keys it replaces.
@capeandcowell My first time in Philadelphia - 2012 - I walked into a convenience store to ask for directions to the Liberty Bell (thinking I'd get more interesting directions from a local than Google Maps). Asian lady had no idea what the Liberty Bell was, and barely spoke English
@HockeyExpert98 @GinoHard_ He made the Canadian team because this is how Canadians behave every tournament, and have for decades. They have no class, and their pathetic fans support their team no matter how dirty they play, and they always play dirty. The referees always look the other way when it's Canada
@zelinarxy What's not mentioned is these gang rapes actually are the practice of Sharia law, so he's being a duplicitous muslim, also known simply as: a muslim.
America is not a continent. North America & South America are continents, people are either North American or South American (ie: people from Colombia are Colombians who are South Americans, people from the United States of America are Americans who are North Americans). Simple